News as a Continuous Circle (Oldham Post)

"The bloggers are talkers, commentators, not reporters. The talk-show hosts are reactors, commentators, not reporters. The search engines can search but do not report. All of them, every single one of them, have to have the news in order to exist and thrive."
--Jim Lehrer, journalist and host of PBS's "NewsHour," 2007
(Speech at UT-Austin, 11/6/07, American-Statesman)

I came across this quote today and found it to be quite true. However, at the same time, I had my own thoughts on the matter. Several times I have thought that everyone can be a reporter. All people who blog are writing stories, and updating on their own personal lives. I guess the question comes down to - is that really considered news? As people, we make the news. The events that we consider to be of high value and interest is what makes it into the news. News is like a continuous circle; people make the news by becoming curious, journalists report the news, and in return people write stories and talk of the current news.

I agree with the quote in the sense that bloggers often times receive their information from reporters. If there were no reporters, I am sure that google would not be the phenomenon that it has become today. There would be far less gossip in beauty shops, and coffee shops would not appeal to the same old men reading the daily newspapers. Reporters should be given credit for their work; their the ones who bring it to us, and give us something to talk about. Likewise, the public should be given credit to their work; their interest is what keeps reporters in business.