Monday, February 06, 2006
Blogging and the changing model of news-deliveryOne of my favorite blogs is David Neiwert's Orcinus blog, not least because he is one of today's leading journalistic experts on the militant radical right. And he has good insights into how rightwing extremist ideas are regularly "mainstreamed" into today's authoritarian Republican Party. In this post, he takes on the endlessly-discussed (and sometimes even interesting!) issue of the function of news-oriented blogs - Some thoughts on blogging 02/03/06:[B]loggers are not journalists, in the professional-craft sense, despite various claims to such status by some bloggers. At times, they may actually engage in reporting work (Josh Marshall particularly comes to mind), but this is something of a rarity. Besides, we bloggers who are journalists too know that it essentially represents a kind of publishing without an editor - which is both part of the pleasure of it (I certainly can't imagine any editor ever approving any of my disquisitions on fascism) and its danger (I think regular readers of my verbose posts would tell you I could use a good editor; and then there are the mistakes that are inevitable when you work without a backstop). | +Save/Share | | |
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