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We
\n love it when the various voices on our computer sound like they’re talking
\n to each other. Sometimes they actually are, but mostly it
\n is just serendipitous juxtapositioning which nevertheless exposes counterbalance
\n and fault lines
\n in arguments which would be invisible if taken alone.<\/p>\n
For example, yesterday Dave My main message for the pros at next week’s conference. If it weren’t Then, a few hours later, sleepless in Watertown, we came across this William America’s quality media are now wading through the Slough Cheer up. Despite the recent lapses at CBS and previous mishaps at The 1. On the challenge from bloggers: The "platform" – print, TV, On national or global events, however, the news consumer needs trained reporters Despite Safire’s insufferable conceit in self-labeling his work "Quality As to the gratuitous "pajama" remark, we could ridicule and refute it Op-ed from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We love it when the various voices on our computer sound like they’re talking to each other. Sometimes they actually are, but mostly it is just serendipitous juxtapositioning which nevertheless exposes counterbalance and fault lines in arguments which would be invisible … Continue reading
\n Winer<\/a>, writing on the lasting need for blogs,
\n noted that the force that got the phenomena started was a failure on the
\n part of the journalism professionals:<\/i><\/p>\n\n
\n for the callous lack of credibility of the pros, there never would have
\n been a need for blogs. (from Scripting<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n Safire editorial<\/a> in today’s New York Times which is still several hours
\n away from being slapped
\n down on our snow-covered front porch.<\/i><\/p>\n\n
\n of Despond. Our self-flagellation, handwringing and narcissism threaten
\n our mission to act as counterweight to government power.<\/p>\n
\n Times and USA Today, here’s why mainstream journalism has a future.<\/p>\n
\n Internet, telepathy, whatever – will change, but the public hunger for
\n reliable information will grow. Blogs will compete with op-ed columns for "views
\n you can use," and the best will morph out of the pajama game to
\n deliver serious analysis and fresh information, someday prospering
\n with ads and
\n subscriptions. The prospect of profit will bring bloggers in from the
\n meanstream to the mainstream center of comment and local news coverage.<\/p>\n
\n on the scene to transmit facts and trustworthy editors to judge significance.
\n In crises, large media gathering-places are needed to respond to a need for national
\n community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n Media" (by implication relegating all bloggers and such to the "lower-quality"
\n ranking), it is good to know that the big boys are looking over their shoulders,
\n although they obviously have no clue as to why we are gaining on them as
\n they are stumbling and running out of gas.<\/p>\n
\n more convincingly if we weren’t sitting here, at 5 am, blogging away in
\n our favorite Tom and Jerry Jammies right now….<\/i><\/p>\n