TV networks and newspapers learn new tricks from bloggers but they won’t give bloggers credit

Amateur video claimed by “professional” media

I get a chuckle out of mainstream media and their bleating “You’ve just a blogger. Baaa! Baaa! Baaa!”

Last night on CTV national news they were posting the LiveLeak shots of the newsroom fight. We put that up on VodPod Thursday night. In January the “big” networks started carrying the amateur Challenger video about 6 days after we posted it on LiveLeak. Myth of the professional journalist is dispelled again by Challenger video.

Bloggers like NJN Network broke the LiveLeaked Neda Agha Soltan story last year that won the George Polk Journalism Award for Videography.

Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post got caught stealing stories again from bloggers without attribution again. Baaaad newspapers.

The reality is we are all reporting the news  – sad, shocking, funny, whimsical and entertaining. We need each other and use each others stories and bag of tricks. Bloggers just want to save a few trees.