Print v. Blogger
This dichotomy is the one that we’ve been asked about a bunch of times
since we got here yesterday. All the reporters want to know
how/why we’re in contention with them.
This USA Today piece (blech, a paper I would never have read if it hadn’t been for Dave Weinberger’s link).
We get lots of visits up in the blogger area near the ceiling of the
main hall of the Fleet Center. And everyone’s curious as to why
we’re here. I’ve explained more times than I can recall that I’m
not a journalist, that I’m not trying to compete, that I don’t think
that I am really doing the same thing that they are.
The dust-up yesterday morning between David Weinberger and Walter Mears
was more interesting than contentious, and the press that have noted it
have played it more as the second.
AKMA tightens up Dave’s question quite a bit,
improving upon it, and at the same time explaining why it is that the
bloggers and many non-bloggers don’t trust the mainstream media in
their claims of objectivity. We all know that no one can be truly
objective. Take, for example, this morning’s coverage of the
speeches given here at the convention last night. Look at your
local paper and the New York Times. Probably fairly different
takes on the same event. If the source were truly “objective,”
then why aren’t the reports the same in tone and so forth?
Moreso, why aren’t they pulling the same quotes from the speeches?
All right, enough of this navel gazing.
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