SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers v journalists | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Mainstream journalists' antagonism towards bloggers, he suggested, was sustained by the huge stress they find themselves under, which stems from five developments:
1. The collapsing economic model of newspapers.
2. Journalists having to face new kinds of competition.
3. A shift in power to the audience.
4. New patterns of information flow in which information moves horizontally from citizen to citizen as efficiently as vertically.
5. Erosion of trust and related loss of authority.
Sneering at bloggers was a way journalists avoided confronting these developments. In short "this is fucking neurotic."
