\n| \n (This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion)<\/p>\n You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when
\n Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician
\n just stopped into Blogger’s Row. He
\n is shaking hands and signing autographs. We will try to ask him
\n a few questions., like if he knows what a blog is.<\/p>\n Appearantly he does, although he doesn’t write one or even read them.
\n However, he has an acute sense of catching the wave of a rising
\n new tide, and has become convinced, he told us, that "This is the new
\n politics, the modern day politics."<\/p>\n Several bloggers crowd around. We want to ask him some questions.
\n Some bloggers just wnat to get their picture taken with him. But Jerry
\n is not in a mood to be interviewed.<\/p>\n Oh no, Jerry is interviewing US. He doesn’t want to answer questions,
\n he wants to ask them. In fact, he has come equipped with a camera and
\n microphone crew, unobtrusively blocking our view of the floor, and proceed
\n to ask several of the more photogenic bloggers questions like "How do
\n you think of things to write about?"<\/p>\n Behind us two 18-year olds are talking
\n on their cellphones about how cool it is
\n to
\n be at the convention and
\n what
\n kind
\n of
\n view they
\n have of
\n the screen from their seats. They are so absorbed in their preening
\n that they haven’t noticed the media event happening a few feet in front
\n of them. Suddenly they notice the man with the microphone.<\/p>\n "Oh my God, Oh my God, its Jerry Springer, he’s UP
\n HERE
\n WITH US!"<\/p>\n We decided it was a good time for a bathroom break.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion) You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician just … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |