Comments on: Growing the Journalist-Blogger Relationship http://themoderatevoice.com/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Sun, 27 May 2012 20:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: pacatrue http://themoderatevoice.com/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-75969 pacatrue Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:13:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/blogging/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/#comment-75969 What Dave Schuler said, particularly his points 1 and 2. What Dave Schuler said, particularly his points 1 and 2.

]]> By: White Agent http://themoderatevoice.com/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-75961 White Agent Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:33:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/blogging/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/#comment-75961 The historical indicator would be that; The worse it gets, the closer we get to revolution. Question is: Is it managed properly? The historical indicator would be that; The worse it gets, the closer we get to revolution.

Question is: Is it managed properly?

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://themoderatevoice.com/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-75876 Dave Schuler Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:42:41 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/blogging/12333/growing-the-relationship-between-journalists-bloggers/#comment-75876 Focusing only on print news media, is the problem with them really that they're too objective and balanced? I think that, quite to the contrary, the problem is that 1) journalistic writing style and practice has moved to a story-telling one which is intrinsically neither objective nor balanced. 2) "balance" has come to mean about the same as dialetic i.e. finding an opposing views and treating them as though they were equal. This, too, is intrinsically neither objective nor balanced. I think quite to the contrary that the problem that news dailies have is a failure of business model. Contempoary technology favors specialization, specialist knowledge. The “Long Tail”. Journalists today are increasingly, well, journalists. Not engineers turned journalists or truck drivers turned journalists or cooks turned journalists. Their expertise is, surprise, journalism! And only journalists are really interested in journalism <i>per se</i>. Focusing only on print news media, is the problem with them really that they’re too objective and balanced? I think that, quite to the contrary, the problem is that

1) journalistic writing style and practice has moved to a story-telling one which is intrinsically neither objective nor balanced.

2) “balance” has come to mean about the same as dialetic i.e. finding an opposing views and treating them as though they were equal. This, too,
is intrinsically neither objective nor balanced.

I think quite to the contrary that the problem that news dailies have is a failure of business model. Contempoary technology favors specialization, specialist knowledge. The “Long Tail”.

Journalists today are increasingly, well, journalists. Not engineers turned journalists or truck drivers turned journalists or cooks turned journalists. Their expertise is, surprise, journalism! And only journalists are really interested in journalism per se.

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