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July 19, 2006
Reuters on blogstories
Reuters on blogstories: The news service summarizes a Pew Study as "Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs". I think the same hold true for the commercial media, too... these days I read most news services as stories, as things that an organization would like us to believe, more than whatever we might have once dreamt objective "journalism" to be. (I anticipate blogging will continue to get pushback from commercial media throughout the summer, due to the US political cycle and the tensions within one of its major political parties.) My point: I think it's all "just stories" these days anyways, and I personally suspect there's significant danger in assuming anything we read is just "objective journalism" anymore. Finding the useful stories, which make sense and match the facts and help us do more, are key....
Posted by JohnDowdell at July 19, 2006 12:23 PM
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On the other hand, Washington Post talks about the same Pew study in a different way, focusing on the demographics of the 240 bloggers contacted by telephone for the Pew survey. (WaPo link may or may not work, by the way... a news search on "'kim hart' pew blogger sociable" may turn it up if the link gets blocked.)
Posted by: John Dowdell at July 20, 2006 06:52 PM