The Beltway-Blog Battle (James Poniewozik, Time, this week):
Maybe we’ll also stop arbitrarily dividing “real” from “amateur” journalists and simply distinguish good reporting from bad, informed opinion from hot air, information from stenography. Maybe we’ll remember this election as the one when we stopped talking about “the old media” and “the new media” and, simply, met the press.
I posted on Blogology in July 2002:
Bloggers can be journalists any time they practice journalism by actually trying to find out the truth about a story. A journalist can be a blogger by installing some blogging software and beginning to post. These words should be labels for activities, not badges of tribal fealty.
Another good quote from Poniewozik:
“if 3 million people read Drudge and 65,000 read the New Republic, which is mainstream?”
And this one raises my eyebrow a bit:
Russert was one of the last giants of old-school journalism…It’s hard to imagine a future Russert with that kind of singular authority, as the power to set the news agenda moves from insiders to outsiders.
They said the same thing about Cronkite when he retired, of course.
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