In the summer of 2008, the LA Times published a series of articles covering a specific event that portrayed Obama in a negative light. Aside from the remarks that this writer uncovered, her ability to make headlines left the media in awe.
Mayhill Fowler was an everyday American just writing about whatever she thought was important. The day she quoted Obama saying "bitter" small-town Americans "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them" she opened a door for citizen journalists all over.
The most amazing part of the story is that Fowler never considered herself to be a journalist.
With the immediacy of blogging and news gathering it is a smart statement to make saying everything is on the record. In one of the LA Times' articles, Larry Pryor, a USC journalism professor, said:
We have entered new territory and the rules are not all clear. You have to assume that everything is on the record. There is no getting around that anymore.
This applies to my generation even more because we have to deal with Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. We cannot take away our online footprints, so saying certain things in our status and tweets will stay with us forever.
Nothing is off the record.
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