Chez Pazienza was fired by CNN recently because he wasn’t running his blogging by CNN for their approval.
Chez wrote this in his blog post about being fired:
CNN fired me, and did it without even a thought to the power that I might wield as an average person with a brain, a computer, and an audience. The mainstream media doesn’t believe that new media can embarrass them, hurt them or generally hold them accountable in any way, and they’ve never been more wrong.
I don’t know enough to know whether Chez blogging about being fired will change anything in the mainstream media. However I have seen ways in which the ‘new media’ holds people accountable. Recently I saw a youtube video made by a teenager’s friends as a cop inappropriately lost it with the teenager. Now the cop has been suspended.
One of the things which frustrates me most is when people have power and others have no way to hold them accountable for how they use it. I’m pleased that the ‘new media’ has created some new ways to do that.
02-25-2008 |
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