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« WSJ on TABOR: "The Results Have Been Impressive" | Main | A Story About Libya That Has Nothing to Do With Terror or WMD » April 19, 2004Citizen-Powered NewsTerry Heaton emailed to say that the recent elections in South Korea showed the power of the new online citizen-powered media. The liberal Uri Party swept into power [April 15] in the National Assembly elections, ending 44 years of conservative rule in the country. What you'll likely NOT read is that this was accomplished largely through the steady efforts of a New Media entity that fought the conservative press in South Korea. OhmyNews! is an Internet-based media company that took on the giants and won in its bid for influence. In so doing, it has involved young people in the political process in record numbers and turned the whole culture on its ear. It's a wake-up call for traditional media everywhere.He's got a much longer analysis on his blog. Here's a snippet: Here in the U.S., the liberal radio network, Air America, is two weeks old, and Al Gore is readying to launch his new TV news network aimed at young people, presumably with a liberal slant as well. I have serious doubts about the viability of either and wonder why neither group has considered the OhmyNews! model. The answer is that Modernist thinking doesn't die easily, and the idea that influence is exclusively a top-down privilege is Modernist at core. But OhmyNews! is breaking all of those rules and proving that real influence in a democracy lies with the people. Posted in Blogging & Journalism
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OhmyNews! of Seoul is so left in its coverage it makes you wonder how much of its startup funding comes from 100 miles to the north. Posted by: Dexter Justus at April 19, 2004 06:04 PMI visited their site and found a report from "reliable sources" in Baghdad claiming that there's a massacre underway in Fallujah. I thought that massacres were against people who can't fight back. Posted by: AST at April 19, 2004 07:55 PMdon't we have our own version of this ala indymedia? And they've even got the same "reliable sources" Posted by: RussSchultz at April 19, 2004 08:23 PMMeanwhile, the Dallas Morning News has an editorial on media bias. I've seen this before and I'm not impressed. Posted by: Random Numbers at April 20, 2004 12:10 AM
Which is probably how OhmyNews was the first to break the story about how the govt of Nobel laureate Kim Dae Jung in SKorea gave Pyongyang millions ahead of the summit, right? OhmyNews does a lot that would be offensive to North Korea. Posted by: oranckay.net/blog at April 20, 2004 07:06 PMAs a journalist in Seoul who is not Korean, I've kept tabs on OhmyNews for years. It's much like a left-leaning version of the Drudge Report, with all the rumors, slander, myopia and chauvanism that entails. "Citizens" are usually not qualified to be reporters because they tend to be credulous and emotionalize their subject, sorry if that sounds elitist. It's great to have alternative voices, just don't cloak this enterprise in respectabilty by calling it journalism, especially while slagging on the "traditional media" it borrows from. Posted by: zecks at April 21, 2004 06:58 AMPost a comment
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