Why Filipino news companies are still behind on blogging
Mong Palatino, the youthful news editor at Yehey, wonders why most Filipino news companies have not been aggressively using blogging as a tool to improve their coverage of issues and events. In his blog, Mong states:
But Philippine media has also not been aggressively endorsing the use of blogs to improve media content. A TV station bans its reporters from having personal blogs. Some media practitioners look down on bloggers and refuse to recognize the journalistic output of the latter. News teams have yet to refer to blogs on a daily basis. Gathering of news still requires the sending of press releases through fax or e-mail or the texting of reporters/photographers.
One reason, I think, is that most Philippine newsrooms today are still lorded over by a generation of editors who can’t even register a Yahoo email account.
But there’s a bit of good news here: a decade from now, or even earlier, these newsrooms would be staffed by the same journalists who now keep a Friendster account. That — being technology savvy, not Friendster — is going to usher in some change in the way newsrooms are handled and in the way news is gathered and presented.
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Check out my other blog about the way the Arroyo administration is handling the crises it has been facing, propaganda-wise.
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