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Mr. Ratcliffe -

I typically disagree with much of what you say or how you say it. You are 100% spot on here. I have been saying this for a long, long time. What the "Gillmor Gang", Winer, Carr, and the rest of "blogosphere" fail to understand that all they are doing is twisting and manipulating the raw facts & data that someone gave them for free or for 50 cents on a street corner. They want to degenerate the traditional news to being an ignorant vacuum that sucks up raw information for them to apply their own bias too, and allow them to be the new kings of public thought.

It's rediculous.

I will be posting in a week or two over a TechRepublic on this topic, and I will definitely be linking back to you. I think we're on the same page here.

Like you said, the numbers simply do not work! Between the percentage of original reporting to reprocessed data, the skewed participation rates, astroturf blogging, and other maladies, the idea of blogging as anything more than an exercise in self gratification or self enrichment is difficult to see as a legitimate possibility. As you put it, any good blog doing original resource quickly develops into a true journalistic enterprise. My bad analogy for the day: quality blogging is to journalism as fawns are to deer; mediocre blogging is to journalism as fawns are to week-old roadkill.

J.Ja

Posted by: Justin James   Posted on: 10/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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