In “we the media” Dan Gillmor, talks about the thirst for news that grew post 9-11, it is interesting how the emergence of so many blogs were dedicated to comments about what the 9-11 attacks, he also talks bout how the big media companies are not the only ones dominating the news agenda. Now the big media companies formerly know as the big three ABC, CBS, and NBC don’t dominate the news business anymore. Now, anyone who is interested in certain news or topics can write about it, and as Gillmor says sometimes they create big stories and become famous independently from the media.
Gilmore also says that a lot of good content is being written by amateurs who are passionate about topics and technology. As long as people are interested in voicing out their opinion and as long as they have the tools and a computer to write it, they will do it. This is his approach or philosophy of “we the media” in which he says that anyone of us can create our own conversation online and we don’t necessarily have to what for the big media to us what to think of who to think. Now some of us tell big media what we think the agenda should be. Now and in the future it seems that we are the media.
