MobLogic Host Arrested at Sean Bell Protest

[MobLogic is] an interesting show covering current events and politics in America.  It’s a CBS property, but was a spin-off of the WallStrip podcast, hosted by Lindsay Campbell, the former host of that show. Of late, they’ve been covering the story and fall-out of Sean Bell.

As a part of her coverage, Lindsay took part of a planned protest where a number of protesters were arrested to bring attention to the fading memory of the court’s verdict.  Instead of standing aside during the arrests and protest, she chose to be arrested along with the protesters, and in the process, got probably the most in-depth profile of what was going on.

Since the very humble beginnings of indie and New Media journalists, opinion is unabashedly infused with news delivery.

So then is it the very next logical step for journalists to drop the final pretense in their position and top being independent of the story and finally become the story? That’s a hard call to make.

On the other hand, a lot of folks have been making the point that the future of news delivery isn’t just in social media, it’s in social networking. This weekend, most of the blogosphere noted how quickly the news of the Chinese earthquake broke on Twitter, and according to SEO Journal, beat the geological survey by several minutes. In this case, the news was obviously reported first by those involved in the story, and this trend in first-person reporting is likely not to be a phenomenon that decreases over time.