] OhmyNews is transforming the 20th century's ] journalism-as-lecture model, where organizations tell the ] audience what the news is and the audience either buys it ] or doesn't, into something vastly more bottom-up, ] interactive and democratic. ] ] The influence of OhmyNews is substantial, and expanding. ] It's credited with having helped elect the nation's ] current president, Roh Moo Hyun, who ran as a reformer. ] Roh granted his first post-election interview to the ] publication, snubbing the three major conservative ] newspapers that have dominated the print-journalism scene ] for years. Dan Gillmore on OhmyNews. |