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Today: a second full-chapter excerpt from Say Everything for your consideration. This time, it’s Chapter Nine: Journalists vs. Bloggers. (Previously I’ve posted the introduction and Chapter One, the story of Justin Hall.)
I have been writing about the tormented relationship between journalists and bloggers for a decade. When I reached the part of Say Everything that involved chronicling this long relationship, part of me quailed: Oh, no — not again!
Then I started writing and everything came together: 10,000 words or so of my effort to wrangle this sprawling subject into a single narrative.
A side note: My reflex in naming the chapter was to write, “Bloggers vs. Journalists.” But after finishing it, I realized that over time, the preponderance of the aggression in this relationship has shifted. Once upon a time, certainly, you would find bloggers on the attack more frequently, and journalists simply going about their business. Today, I think, the situation is more frequently reversed. Thus the ordering of the title.
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Deleted: Today: a second full-chapter excerpt from <i><a href="http:// www.sayeverything. | Added: Today: a second full-chapter excerpt from <i><a href="http:// www.sayeverything.com">Say Everything</a></i> for your consideration. This time, it's <a href="http:// www.sayeverything.com/excerpt/ chapter-nine- journalists- vs-bloggers/">Chapter Nine: Journalists vs. Bloggers.</a> (Previously I've posted <a href="http:// www.sayeverything.com/excerpt/ say-everything- introduction/">the introduction</a> and <a href="http:// www.sayeverything.com/excerpt/ say-everything- chapter-one/">Chapter One</a>, the story of Justin Hall.) | ||
Unchanged: I have been writing about the tormented relationship between journalists and bloggers for a decade. When I reached the part of <i>Say Everything</i> that involved chronicling this long relationship, part of me quailed: <i>Oh, no -- not again!</i> | Unchanged: I have been writing about the tormented relationship between journalists and bloggers for a decade. When I reached the part of <i>Say Everything</i> that involved chronicling this long relationship, part of me quailed: <i>Oh, no -- not again!</i> | ||
Unchanged: Then I started writing and everything came together: 10,000 words or so of my effort to wrangle this sprawling subject into a single narrative. | Unchanged: Then I started writing and everything came together: 10,000 words or so of my effort to wrangle this sprawling subject into a single narrative. | ||
Unchanged: A side note: My reflex in naming the chapter was to write, "Bloggers vs. Journalists." But after finishing it, I realized that over time, the preponderance of the aggression in this relationship has shifted. Once upon a time, certainly, you would find bloggers on the attack more frequently, and journalists simply going about their business. Today, I think, the situation is more frequently reversed. Thus the ordering of the title. | Unchanged: A side note: My reflex in naming the chapter was to write, "Bloggers vs. Journalists." But after finishing it, I realized that over time, the preponderance of the aggression in this relationship has shifted. Once upon a time, certainly, you would find bloggers on the attack more frequently, and journalists simply going about their business. Today, I think, the situation is more frequently reversed. Thus the ordering of the title. |
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