Como os papões da indústria mudaram em 5 anos | How the industry’s ghosts changed in 5 years
Doug Marlette for MEDIANATION © 2004
Há relativamente pouco tempo, os maiores inimigos dos jornalistas eram os bloggers, porque eram amadores a fazer o mesmo que o Deus da Comunicação lhes tinha dado como vocação terrena. Os sacerdotes do jornalismo apressaram-se a excomungar os hereges que lhes pisavam o solo sagrado, e fecharam os olhos aos novos símbolos que eles traziam: computadores portáteis, câmaras digitais, telemóveis, uma verdadeira ubiquidade cibernética. A desconfiança foi-se desvanecendo e os jornalistas passaram a usar as ferramentas dos bloggers como símbolos da sua religião. E um por um, assim se foi desmontando a autoridade da Igreja de Todos os Jornais, que ia perdendo crentes para a nova fé nos conteúdos online. O desespero atacou os donos do templo que o viam ficar cada vez mais vazio, e aos poucos foram dispensando os seus subordinados, encerrando portas, lamentando-se aos seus muros que tanto tempo levaram a erigir. Era o fim de uma era, e as páginas que veneravam serviam apenas agora para lhes forrar a memória. Mas alguns dos seus seguidores pegaram nos seus ensinamentos mais importantes, e espalharam as suas próprias palavras, não para converter ninguém, mas apenas para quem os quisesse ouvir. Esses jornalistas-novos agarraram a oportunidade e levaram a mensagem para a rede, e perceberam que o poder que tinham era igual ao da sua antiga religião: todo e nenhum. E aí transformaram-se no que lhes ensinaram a odiar.
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Not that long ago, the biggest enemies for journalists were bloggers, because they were amateurs doing the same thing the God of Communication had told them to do as their earthly task. The priests of journalism rushed to excommunicate the heretic that were stepping on their sacred grounds, and closed their eyes to the new symbols they beared: laptops, digital cameras, cell phones, a true cybernetic ubiquity. Suspicion faded away in time and journalists began to use bloggers’ tools as the symbols of their own religion. And one by one, it was how the authority of the Church of All Newspapers was dismantled, losing believers to the new faith of online content. Despair struck the guardians of the temple, that saw it grow emptier, and slowly began to dismiss their subordinates, closing down the doors, lamenting to the walls they took so long to erect. It was the end of an era, and the pages they worshipped served only to paper their memories.
But some of it’s former followers took their most important teachings and spread their own words, not to convert but to whoever wanted to listen. These new-journalists seized the opportunity and brought their message to the net, and realized that all the power they had was the same as their former religion: all and none. And that was the moment they became what they were taught to hate.
Lisa Williams Ten Things Journalists Should Know…” is genius.
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