Predicated on
the fact that Preston Haskell of ‘News
Alert Niagara’ left his recorder on and recording while using the facilities
and the ensuing controversy surrounding council’s tragic reaction, the CAO,
Carmen D’ Angelo called for a ‘Media Roundtable’ as some sort of ‘cover my
donkey’.
The idea was
supposedly to get media feedback on how media should be treated.
So what went
wrong?
The first
thing that went wrong just happened to be the loss of trust and respect.
The second
thing is reluctance by anyone to ‘bail out’ Regional Council’s heavy handed
attack on media.
Third is the
total and archaic refusal to accept the fact that modern news dissemination is
moving more and more online through the likes of Twitter, Blogs and Facebook.
If the
Regional Authorities are considering only the mainstream newspapers to be Media
as shown by the fact they failed to invite the blogger who was the actual cause
of the unfortunate incident that precipitated the need for a ‘Media Roundtable’ is regrettable.
The facts
are such that nearly all of Niagara’s mainstream newspapers are now under singleownership and this single owner is closing its smaller papers!
Therefore by not inviting online news you effectively wind up with a
single person presenting a common point of view while sitting at a ‘Media Roundtable
of One!
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