\n \n SOUTH KOREA’S MEDIA has been turned on its head by an upstart Internet news portal OhmyNews is in fact little more than a Web site, edited by Oh and his fellow For now, the most lasting lesson Oh and his team can pass from the Far Eastern Economic Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prime example in the world today of the power of the Internet and the Blogosphere to suplant the established news media as the main source of a nation’s information is South Korea, where a coalition of blogs and web … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/feer.gif\")
The prime example in the
\n world today of the power of the Internet and the Blogosphere to suplant
\n the established news media as the main source of a nation’s information
\n is South Korea, where a coalition of blogs and web sites elected a Maverick
\n president<\/a> and blew the old line media out of the water. Now they want
\n to export their success….<\/em><\/p>\n
\n called OhmyNews. But can its revolutionary brand of citizen reporting and Internet-only
\n delivery work elsewhere?<\/p>\n
\n editors, and filled by ordinary members of the public–what the left-leaning
\n Oh calls "citizen reporters"–who submit stories, comments, pictures
\n and sometimes video by e-mail and from their cellphones. More than 30,000
\n of them regularly post pieces, and many more add their comments. A team of
\n editors
\n sift through the material, weeding out potential legal problems and rewriting
\n for readability, while a handful of full-time reporters add their own stories
\n on the top events of the day<\/p>\n
\n on is that it doesn’t take much to start a revolution. "We can do
\n anything so long as we have an Internet connection," he says.<\/p>\n