Monday night, I went to a lecture by Jim Lehrer. Yep, that's Jim Lehrer from the PBS Broadcast: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. I expected to hear some interesting commentary on current events in politics, economics or the war. Unfortunately, the lecture was written for journalists. It was an effort to reassure journalists that journalism is not in eminent danger. I would argue the opposite. Unless the media changes their tactics from profit seeking to ethical presentation of the news, the media will be facing extinction. Citizen journalism is taking hold of America and offers a bonified threat to the Mass Media. If you doubt this, go to any of the media conglomerate websites and you will see CNN has iReport, MSNBC has FirstPerson and ABC News has iCaught. All of these are citizen journalist divisions of the large news corporations. Anyway, here's the first of 4 parts of Jim Lehrer's lecture.
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