{"id":573882054,"date":"2011-09-01T17:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882054"},"modified":"2011-09-03T00:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T05:26:29","slug":"things-to-read-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/things-to-read-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is a member of the media? Terry Heaton<\/a> argues that an appeals court has set the parameters, in a case on witnesses with cameras:<\/p>\n

The issue advanced significantly on Friday with a stunning Federal Appeals Court ruling affirming the First Amendment right of citizens to photograph or create videos of police while they\u2019re on duty. Police agencies in some communities were using an odd interpretation of wiretap laws to confiscate the camera phones of bystanders, and the court rightly found that to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The decision has far-reaching implications that go beyond the mere taking of pictures at crime, disturbance and accident scenes. By granting everyone this \u201cright,\u201d this ruling redefines \u201cthe press\u201d in this country by shattering the myth of privilege associated with working for a so-called \u201clegitimate\u201d news organization. Some will cry that it opens Pandora\u2019s Box, because a clearly defined \u201cpress\u201d helps the machine of modernity function. This decision is potential chaotic, for example, to those cultural institutions who have a vested interest in keeping their \u201cnews\u201d in the hands of a professional class (that can be manipulated). Think of an agency holding a press conference, for example. If press freedom applies to everybody, then that agency cannot restrict access to only those who work for a news organization.<\/p>\n

The decision should make anybody in a traditional newsroom shutter. As we\u2019ve been saying for years, the personal media revolution \u2014 what Jay Rosen calls \u201cthe Great Horizontal\u201d \u2014 IS the second Gutenberg moment in Western civilization. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full piece is worth a read. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there’s great empirical evidence that public relations is doing more than coming of age. A New York Times reporter is quoted there, saying “the muscles of public relations are bulking up\u2014as if they were on steroids<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the buzzwords in the business is engagement. Old fashioned engagement<\/a> still works, as this Canadian example demonstrates:<\/p>\n

Not long ago, the Winnipeg Free Press\u2019s social media editor hosted an online chat from her desk at the paper\u2019s downtown news cafe. She had done it many times in recent months but something unexpected happened.<\/p>\n

People had taken up the paper\u2019s social media invitation to \u201cjoin us\u201d in a chat about Google+ with guests including GigaOM\u2019s Mathew Ingram. But audience members started showing up at the cafe in person saying, \u201cI\u2019m here for the chat!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at them and thought, \u2018Oh\u2026okay. That\u2019s my mistake there. I didn\u2019t promote this the right way,\u2019 said Lindsey Wiebe. \u201cBut that\u2019s also a good sign,\u201d she added. \u201cThey\u2019re thinking of this cafe as a hub where our events are held.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two speeches<\/strong>: This one by a Cronkite School of Journalism professor and news veteran, Tim McGuire, to the Society of Features Editors. He’s calling for a change of mindset<\/a> in the industry. Baltimore Sun editor and Loyola professor discusses his first day of class<\/a> speech. It’s a great read.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post is closing all but two of their local bureaus. This is almost always a series of unfortunate events. Less coverage is never a good thing. The reasons why<\/a> might surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who is a member of the media? Terry Heaton argues that an appeals court has set the parameters, in a case on witnesses with cameras: The issue advanced significantly on Friday with a stunning Federal Appeals Court ruling affirming the First Amendment right of citizens to photograph or create videos of police while they\u2019re on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-things-to-read","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573882054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882055,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882054\/revisions\/573882055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}