In the Guardian today Nesrine Malik writes about the "cancel culture" and the dangers faced by Guardian columnists. I am most concered about the Fox #planetFOX attack on Jo Biden. Seems urgent to opposet this at every chance. Retweet #CNN for example.
But the Guardian concerns seem to prolong their struggle with the readers as they realise the web is read / write. Jeff Jarvis pointed this out a while ago but there is no longer a Media page so no reason to include his words in Guardian scope. Malik observes a wall between "discourse makers and discourse consumers" that dates from the model of print. She claims the public space has been digitised in the last decade but I think it was well advanced before then.
Guardian Unlimited Talk closed down in 2011, one Friday lunchtime. Guardian readers had ben able to start a topic and add comments. Staff never joined in.
Reporting on the MOOC / social learning has been limited and hostile when in print. Peter Horrocks interview around Futurelearn contributed to pressure forcing him to resign. Guardian now moving online with format of star speaker and lecture. Not sure how this will work. They will probably go back to celeb events whenever normal is normal.
Before he worked for OU Peter Horrocks worked for BBC World Service. In his lecture at Durham on the Fortress University he also spoke about Fortress Journalism . I sort of remember discussions 5 -10 years ago when BBC and other news organisations claimed to consider models of citizen journalism or something similar. Maybe before that, OhmyNews in English not sure when
Will find out more dates. Meanwhile print journalism seems even more shut down than ever seemed possible.