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The Dowbrigade has decided to finally weigh in on an idea that has been
\n circulating around the Blogosphere for several weeks now – Adopt-a-Journalist.<\/p>\n
The concept was popularized by Jay Come on! That’s the most invasive, repugnant and counterproductive idea Never content to be a nattering nabob of negativity, the Dowbrigade First, all news reporting should be clearly identified with a particular Then, and most importantly, every single professional reporter should This would allow those of us who value diversity of opinion and resist The Dowbrigade has decided to finally weigh in on an idea that has been circulating around the Blogosphere for several weeks now – Adopt-a-Journalist. The concept was popularized by Jay Rosen, and then interestingly commented on by Al Giordano and … Continue reading
\n Rosen<\/a>, and then interestingly commented
\n on by Al
\n Giordano<\/a> and Halley
\n Suitt<\/a>, among others. The basic idea is
\n that to counteract the relative anonymity and lack of accountability
\n on the part of Major Media writers and reporters, Bloggers should choose
\n a single reporter and monitor, repost and comment on all of that individual’s
\n journalistic output.<\/p>\n
\n we have heard in the ‘Sphere since paid subscriptions! Who appointed
\n us to be the Thought Police? And Who is Going to Monitor the Monitors?
\n What a misguided, uncivil and rude waste of time!<\/p>\n
\n does have a couple of suggestions for keeping track of the Major Media,
\n and enabling the thinking public to weave their useful but limited reporting
\n into our pastiche of emerging understanding.<\/p>\n
\n reporter, editor or news desk. Major papers like the New York Times do
\n identify the individual authors of their feature articles, but many less
\n prominent stories on the inner pages run anonymously. In addition almost
\n all of the stories coming out of the news wires, AP, UPI and Reuters,
\n which are of course picked up and published by hundreds of local papers
\n around the world, are completely anonymous.<\/p>\n
\n have his or her own RSS feed. When we read an interesting or thought-provoking
\n article, we should be able to instantly (by clicking on their name) subscribe
\n to that writer’s feed, and to review his or her aggregated writings,
\n in order to get a clear idea of their views, political orientation, history
\n of positions on the issues, etc.<\/p>\n
\n taking the network pap at face value the opportunity to see where these
\n opinions are coming from and weave their occasionally important voices
\n into a better rounded collection of professional, personal and identifiably
\n biased punditry from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"