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17 Jan 2009 01:53 pm
Cheetos, Not Journos?
Yglesias puts his finger on one variety of professional insecurity:
Convention dictates that if I sit at a desk and read a transcript of
what the press secretary said and then write about the transcript, I’m
a lowly cheeto-eater. But if I sit in the White House press room
and transcribe what the press secretary said, and then write about the
transcript then that’s journalism. Similarly, if I travel around with
the president and then read the pool reports that my colleagues write
and then write about that: Journalism. But if I read the newspaper
account of where the president went and then write about that: Cheetos.
One reason, however, that I blog rather than do cable is that I think I can get at more nuanced, detailed and factual truths online than on TV. I'm as parasitic as they are, but less geared toward pure entertainment - with more links and access to immediate information.
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