Category: Journalism

I relish this opportunity to agree 100% with something Dave Winer wrote: OJR interviews John Markoff from the NY Times. “It sometimes seems we have a world full of bloggers and that blogging is the future of journalism, or at least that’s what the bloggers argue, and to my mind, it’s not clear yet whether…

Jay Rosen at NYU’s j-school has been writing a fantastic weblog lately. His most recent entry there lists ten answers to this question: What’s Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism?

Mickey Kaus notes that he and Dan Weintraub received the same leaked Los Angeles Times poll results in the same e-mail message and that he posted about it in his unedited Slate weblog at 5:38 PM yesterday while Dan’s blog post on the same topic didn’t appear until 9:39 PM.

Written in the mode of a jaded Internet old-timer (how weak is that?), a New York Press Media & Politics item points out the deep irrelevance of weblogs, noting that they are “a circle jerk” and that the best bloggers long to be media columnists like ol’ no-signature who penned the slam. You have to…