Elections a Common Cause
of Bloggers and Journos
Posted by: Ed Lingao | September 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Filed under: General
A great deal - perhaps even too much - has already been written about the supposed antipathy between bloggers and the so-called mainstream media. However, three well-known bloggers who attended the PCIJ’s last two training seminars on covering automated elections have taken a very optimistic tone on the potentials for cooperation between traditional and new media in covering next year’s polls.
Touched by an Angel
“Old and New Media will Join Hands in Covering the Elections in 2010,” says blogger Noemi Dado in her blog, Touched by an Angel. The 52-year old mom who describes herself as “a homemaker, a new media publisher, Philippines’ real estate broker and involved in advocacy and family recovery groups,” joined the Aug. 26-29 training seminar in Pansol Laguna.
Jester-in-Exile
From Jester-in-exile: “I’m thinking that I’m going to be talking a lot about this seminar in the next few posts, about stuff I’ve learned and ideas have come to mind because of what I’ve learned.” Jester, better know to his mother as Pierre Galla, calls himself a “frustrated writer/burned-out engineer…environmental advocate… politically-incorrect closet activist,” and a few other unprintable names, depending on the level of his inebriation.
The Marocharim Experiment
And of course, there was Marocharim, he who folds paper cranes: “For the longest time, many of us have fallen into the trap of thinking that blogging and journalism are two different things that threaten each other’s existence, or compromise each field’s reason for existing… Whatever conflict – real or invented – is only the result of a failure of either side to adapt to the changing dynamics of mass media.” Marck Rimorin, known for his blog The Marocharim Experiment, claims he is just a personal blogger who dabbles “every now and then” in political entries. But his political commentaries are the talk of the net, just like his other talent of simultaneously translating the lyrics of the song he is singing.
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