tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351968674485341576.post4946125109305457547..comments2023-07-19T02:44:56.035-07:00Comments on E.W. Scripps Society of Alumni and Friends: Blogging is the Microwave Oven to Journalism's OvenMeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221494172878219971noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351968674485341576.post-17421371328860599812008-10-27T19:21:00.000-07:002008-10-27T19:21:00.000-07:00"Enjoy the legacy media experience while you can. ..."<I>Enjoy the legacy media experience while you can. Perhaps when the collapsed is total the "well-trained voices" can find work in advertising or some such.</I>"<BR/><BR/>The trouble is, Dave, many of them already have. Because what they are doing is not reporting but rather advertising for their favorite candidate or favorite point of view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351968674485341576.post-62030328372880781802008-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:002008-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:00Pretty funny."the trusted and extraordinarily well...Pretty funny.<BR/><BR/>"the trusted and extraordinarily well-trained voices that had been accurately and evenly reporting to the nation for centuries."<BR/><BR/>As a devoted fan of Mike Royko and others of that generation, I can only imagine him laughing in reporter Heaven. "Well-trained" (as in j-school) "voices" would bring gales of laughter by itself. J-school gets in the way of reporting, as can be seen by any discerning reader.<BR/><BR/>Where, today, is that Royko advice, "if your mother says she loves you, check it out."? 'Reporting' today by "trusted and extraordinarily well-trained voices" (and, boy, I hope you didn't strain anything patting yourself on the back) amounts mostly to spin and opinion.<BR/><BR/>Enjoy the legacy media experience while you can. Perhaps when the collapsed is total the "well-trained voices" can find work in advertising or some such.JorgXMcKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509568525555189690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351968674485341576.post-39575109586018139982008-10-27T18:37:00.000-07:002008-10-27T18:37:00.000-07:00"Andrew Sullivan is a true pioneer of blogging, an..."Andrew Sullivan is a true pioneer of blogging, and he's still one of the best." <BR/><BR/>This is satire, right? I mean, this guy is calling for DNA tests to prove whether Trig Palin is really the son Governor Palin of Bristol.<BR/><BR/>"the trusted and extraordinarily well-trained voices that had been accurately and evenly reporting to the nation for centuries."<BR/><BR/>Okay, this MUST be satire. Your average reader has long known that the media screws things up when they write something about the reader knows well. What everyone is beginning to realize is that EVERYONE ELSE has that same experience.<BR/><BR/>As to conventional oven vs. microwave, other than that they're complementary (not compl<B>i</B>mentary), it's not a very good metaphor.<BR/><BR/>It's more a quality-control thing. The media leaves out relevant points, and bloggers restore them.<BR/><BR/>I think that the best contribution blogging makes is the unofficial motto: "We can fact-check your ass." And even with the media's vaunted layers of editors and fact-checkers, this is desparately needed.<BR/><BR/>Funny you should mention HuffPo. Mary Mapes, the partner of Dan Rather in Rathergate, is posting there now. Being popular is not the same as being factual.Jim C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13939831098100385885noreply@blogger.com