Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Are professional journalists really better at this?

For the last several years there has been a running debate about the merits of citizen journalism vs. the MSM vs. the possibility of doing "pro-am" reporting.

The release of Hillary Clinton's White House records today provides an interesting test case since they are available over the Internet.

Who will make the most startling discovery?
Who will do it first?
Who will be able to make sense of the massive data dump?

My guess is that it will be The Washington Post or The New York Times that will do the best job of aggregating the data and presenting it in some interactive format.

But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the most interesting find comes from the journalistic margin.

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