{"id":2086,"date":"2011-05-20T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:22:52","slug":"aaron-sorkin-on-citizen-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2086","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin on Citizen Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a title=\"Aaron Sorkin: What I Read\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/business\/2011\/05\/aaron-sorkin-what-i-read\/37848\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on the <em>Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s Media Diet blog:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance. I can&#8217;t really get on board with the demonization of credentials with phrases like &#8216;the media elite&#8217; (just like doctors, airline pilots and presidents, I prefer reporters and commentators to be elite) and the glamorization of inexperience with phrases like &#8216;citizen journalist.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Aaron Sorkin, who created <a title=\"The West Wing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200276\/\" target=\"_blank\">The West Wing<\/a> and wrote the screenplay for <a title=\"The Social Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1285016\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a post on the Atlantic&#8216;s Media Diet blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-xE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}