A Message From The Medium

By Kleinheider Posted on May 12, 2008 at 1:37 pm

C.L. discusses the difference between journalists and bloggers:

I just read a blog from a guy who was touting that he was a “real” journalist because his blog “broke a story.” Then he chided an actual newspaper for “claiming to break the story.

Puhleeze.

The “story” that was broken was a link. No details — just here it is, folks.

The newspaper, on the other hand, had a reporter who actually made phone calls and dug for facts. Furthermore, the reporter’s name — his REAL name — was at the top of the story. Not some pseudonym or cutesy screen name to hide behind and to abandon when the heat’s too hot in the kitchen.

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