{"id":259,"date":"2004-07-08T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2004-07-08T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T14:57:48","slug":"are_you_serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/07\/08\/are_you_serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horst put his blogtalk paper<\/a> online. Unfortunately it is written in some Word-like Wordprocessor but the content makes it up as it is interesting to read.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I’m most likely more affected by my daughter’s new boyfriend, my cat’s illness, or if my computer acts up than by the dath of some head of state in soem foreign county.<\/i><\/div>\n

Written a short time before the austrian president died. The mass media freaked out about that “news” The local radio station broadcasted phone calls from people that phoned in and started to cry on the radio. Thousands of people wrote into online condolence books here<\/a> and here<\/a>.
\nEven though most people did not have any contact with him and even though they did not like him when he was alive. Strange country.
\nSo yes I admit it, I would be more affected by the fact that a cat of someone on my blogroll died.<\/p>\n

If you think of it, the contents of people’s weblogs give a considerably sharper picture of what really concerns people, of what they are dealing with in their everyday lives and of what these lives look like than any newspaper, TV show or whatever ‘old media’ format i can think of.<\/i><\/div>\n

What I am missing here (probably because it is a bit offtopic for BlogTalk or because i missed most of the journalists vs. weblogs debate), is the role of journalism in the future. In the first part Horst stressed the importance of seriousness of journalism compared to weblogs, while later kind of redefines seriousness for weblogs as the “news” that matters. Does the journalist’s news matter? Do they only exist, because people believe that they write about important stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horst put his blogtalk paper online. Unfortunately it is written in some Word-like Wordprocessor but the content makes it up as it is interesting to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}