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For more on Keen and his book, see Lawrence Lessig’s excellent deconstruction.
For even more on Keen’s wankery, see his appearance on The Colbert Report where he favorably
compares Nazis to bloggers saying, “Even the Nazis didn’t put artists out of work.”
I suppose that’s true if you define the corpses of assassinated artists as no longer being in the job
market. What a repulsive piece of crap Keen is!
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Elitists, citizens, young folks, journalism
Andrew Keen (author of Cult of the Amateur) makes a good talk show guest, and a good panelist too.
He’s patient. Smart. Calm. Doesn’t shout. Doesn’t get angry. Makes some rather weird facial expressions
sometimes, but on the whole, he’s very civil.
Keen has adopted a position that social networking is basically bad for society. He’s concerned that all
this user-generated content, blogs, etc., are going to “ruin media.”
Keen was one of three panelists in a discussion hosted by CBC News (you can watch it online) on
Wednesday evening in Toronto. Leonard Brody, of NowPublic.com, and Rahaf Harfoush, a 20-something
research analyst, completed the panel.
The purpose of media, Keen said, is to inform and entertain. He doesn’t mention communication.
Brody, on the other hand, proclaimed: “Your children will not read newspapers” — because they can’t
communicate there.
As you might imagine, it was a fairly interesting discussion. I’ve seen Keen a few times on TV, pimping his
book, and he wasn’t all that much different here — except that the addition of co-panelists tempered
his authoritative manner somewhat. Keen’s idea of an “independent source” of information is the
Guardian (he likes to call it “the London Guardian”; maybe he’s afraid we will think it’s still in
Manchester). He made sneering and incredulous faces in response to a questioner from the audience
who suggested that we need more diverse sources such as Al Jazeera. It’s the only time I’ve seen him
being bluntly rude (it wasn’t pretty).
Tell Me a Story
“The basis of news, to me, is stories about people,” Harfoush said.
Brody emphasized stories and also analysis as important products of journalism. We need good quality
analysis and good quality content packages, he said — and we need journalists to produce them.
Breaking news will likely leave the purview of journalists, replaced by “a network of eyes and ears that
traditional journalists can use,” Brody said.