What does this say about our society and how we consume news media?

Wait for it….
Yup - the detractors don’t have much to say these days around the premise/content of this speech.
Michael Rosenblum removes the veil of secrecy behind the production of video and shows why the solo vj paradigm WILL work - not might, not maybe - but WILL
Prepare yourself for some rather blunt, even crude commentary [...]

Michael Rosenblum posted this on his blog.  Pretty straight forward.
Detractors deride his solo vj training as being too little.  His training techniques produces quality that is supposedly less than professional - according to the detractors.

On Friday May 9th 2008, I was given access to cover the rally for Democratic Presidential front runner Senator Barack Obama held here in Eugene, Oregon at the University of Oregon.
I was able to work as a solo video journalist and obtained press credentials through the citizen journalist organization The Uptake and the video was [...]

Here is a self assigned small project I completed on a professional singer.
Her story I felt was somewhat unique and this project shows how one can do a slice of life story for a small town newspaper moving to video on their website.