{"id":473,"date":"2005-08-25T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/25\/can-a-really-big-journalist-be-a-blogg"},"modified":"2005-08-25T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T02:14:36","slug":"can-a-really-big-journalist-be-a-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/25\/can-a-really-big-journalist-be-a-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Really Big Journalist Be a Blogger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6784'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/brianwilliams.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"164\" align=\"left\">He was the first anchor to take over a network evening<br \/>\n        newscast in the 21st century, so it was probably inevitable that Brian<br \/>\n        Williams would begin channeling his inner Gawker by getting his own daily<br \/>\n        blog.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;There is no better way to say this than to whip<br \/>\n        out a cliche from the old cliche bag or drawer,&quot; Mr. Williams said<br \/>\n        in an interview. &quot;We are trying to lift the veil. We&#8217;re trying to<br \/>\n        expose ourselves as a collection of humans grappling with how to spend<br \/>\n        our precious 22 minutes each night.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I said to my wife,&quot; he added, &quot; &#8216;I don&#8217;t have a therapist. I<br \/>\n      have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8701416\/#050825d\">my blog<\/a>.&#8217; &quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>The Dowbrigade has said the same thing to Norma<br \/>\n          Yvonne, many times.&nbsp;Unfortunately, she always responds with an<br \/>\n          aphorism &quot;You get what you pay for&quot;. We&#8217;re still not exactly sure what<br \/>\n        she means.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>This is a good thing, we think, if it allows us<br \/>\n          to see the man behind the curtain.&nbsp; We plan to monitor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8701416\/#050825d\">Brian<br \/>\n          Williams blog <\/a>for a while and see if it really exposes the inner workings of the<br \/>\n        media machine.&nbsp;If it does, it will be interesting to observe the<br \/>\n        reactions of William&#8217;s colleagues and bosses&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/25\/arts\/television\/25will.html?ex=1282622400&amp;en=c546c303e2b32cf5&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">the<br \/>\n          New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Brian William&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8701416\/#050825d\">Blog<br \/>\n          (the Daily Nightly)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was the first anchor to take over a network evening newscast in the 21st century, so it was probably inevitable that Brian Williams would begin channeling his inner Gawker by getting his own daily blog. &quot;There is no better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/25\/can-a-really-big-journalist-be-a-blogger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}