Cho - clearly proficient with technology - did not use YouTube to make his statement; he sent his material to the news networks... the immediate impact Cho achieved by going to an old media outlet was clear.Och inte bara det, utan ögonvittnen blir allt mer instrumentella i nyhetsrapporteringen tack vare den nya tekniken:
"It could end up being a significant moment," says Jay Rosen, a journalism professor... "The simple fact of people getting pictures and videos and giving it news organisations to run - that has now been institutionalised."
NBC's exclusive was striking because, until Cho's footage came to light, much of the media response to the Blacksburg shootings had been to view it as a watershed for eyewitness reporting.Det faktum att alla studenter satte inne med både information och informationsteknologi, gjorde därför att rollerna mellan gamla och nya medier blev omvända:
The shaky and brief images of police storming a university building, recorded by student Jamal Albarghouti on his mobile phone, had been a breakthrough. After filming the clip, Albarghouti sent it to CNN, which placed it online - where it was watched by millions - and quickly ran it on air. "We used to say that journalists write the first draft of history. Not so, not any longer," says Dan Gillmor, author of citizen journalism bible We The Media. "The people on the ground at these events write the first draft."
it was the mainstream outlets that flooded the campus in an attempt to tap the students: CNN, for example, sent 100 staffers to Blacksburg after the attacks occurred. Those who had written about events quickly became confused by the media storm that enveloped them. [...]Frågan är då naturligtvis: vad är det egentligen de etablerade massmedierna kan erbjuda som vi själva i framtiden inte kan ta del av direkt via nätet?
as the day wore on many journalists - including one from the Guardian - simply added comments saying "talk to me, please, here's my number". [...] Many students were evidently uncomfortable with the online attention. "You have reporters that will create a Facebook identity just to get students' contact information, or who will start an online memorial to get people posting for a story," complains Courtney Thomas, a campus journalist who is in her final year at the university. "It's just inappropriate."
The sheer volume of solicitations may have lifted the lid off one of the ugliest parts of journalism - and done so in public. But it also showed that, when the onus is on the eyewitness to contact the journalist, an inversion can occur. "I got the sense there was a role reversal," says student Kevin Tosh, whose inbox filled up with entreaties from journalists.
With a wealth of first-hand material available to the public, what extra value can the established media bring? Is culling information from sites enough - and what lengths do you go to in order to verify that the information is genuine?... [W]hile the first instinct of reporters is to look for scoops and exclusive interviews, things become more complex when witnesses have already made their statements - unmediated, to the world, and not for glory.Å ena sidan har vi alltså en direkt kanal från de inblandade, å den andra en professionell nyhetsförmedlare i TV-bolagen. Vittnen och sådana som säger sig vara vittnen kan visserligen "bara" vara ute efter pengar eller kändisskap när de erbjuder sina vittnesmål, medan bolagen visserligen "bara" vara kan ute efter dramatik och i förlängningen annonsintäckter när de söker sina scoop.
Spelet kan börja.
Historien kommer i fortsättningen bestå av många motsägelsefulla första utkast.
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