Category: Radio Free Blogistan
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Are journalists journalists?
Duncan Black (aka Atrios) indulges in some rare metablogging at Eschaton: One question I find rather silly is the “is blogging journalism?” question. The fact is, most of what we’ve agreed to collectively call “journalism” isn’t really “journalism” – or, to the extent that it is, much of it isn’t any different from blogging.
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Tom Tomorrow nails it
Dan Perkins on blogging the convention (WorkingForChange-This Modern World: The very nice Democratic convention): (via Matt Welch)
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'I am proud to call myself a blogger'
Dan Froomkin gets it (CJR Campaign Desk interview): I am proud to call myself a blogger. Not all blogs need to be all blog things. Typically, a blog is updated around the clock; mine isn’t. Typically a blog is unedited; mine is edited. Typically, a blog includes a lot of personal opinion; mine doesn’t. But…
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Money quote
The future doesn’t belong to fear. It belongs to freedom. – John Forbes Kerry
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John Kerry. reporting for duty
Kerry looks very happy, energized by the welcome (photos to come), and at ease with the rhetoric of home, hearth, faith, and family. This is his one shot to introduce himself to the sliver of a sliver of the undecideds who are tuned in right now. After this it’s the other convention, the debates, perhaps…
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Alexandra Kerry humanizes her father
People critized Teresa Heinz Kerry for giving a substantive speech instead of the “he’s really a good guy” type of speech filled with heart-warming anecdotes. Daughter Alexandra seems to have remedied that situation, particular with her tale of a father giving mouth-to-mouth to his child’s waterlogged hamster. Jeff Jarvis concurs.