More NonSense: Personal Expression on the Internet

The challenge for their managers is a subtle one: How to infuse their coverage with the distinctive human voices of journalistic observers who no longer wish to suppress their personal perspectives, while also insuring that the big megaphones they own do not turn into amplifiers of treacherous rumors, personal vendettas, or partisan lies.

- Scott Rosenberg on the new journalism fostered by the Internet

PR isn't journalism, but it's getting more social, and smarter PR people realize that they, too, have a stake in showing some integrity. Think tanks and NGOs increasingly are filling a journalistic role.

- Dan Gillmor responds

The original Everybody Draw Mohammed Day poster by Molly Norris

...we should all be clear that it's almost certain that Norris made the imam's list not for this expression of her ideas but because folks turned her expression into a Facebook campaign that garnered a lot of attention despite Norris wishing to be disassociated from it. Nice job, you dumbasses.

- Tom Spurgeon on Molly Norris and the campaign she inspired

Update: Tom has more to say about Norris and the Danish cartoon controversy:

That this remains an issue in the news speaks to the broad, bland immaturity of the modern political world and the obvious, sad fact that nothing was learned. In fact, learning was resisted. Almost no one's conduct during that time was challenged or questioned, no matter how self-serving the subsequent spin.