Re: DS - 14 October 2008
- From: "sanford sklansky" <sanfordsklansky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:32:24 -0500
"Detox" <detox665@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5647afe6-4525-4960-920b-bbcc0ddc5ff7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Oct 14, 7:50 am, Rob Wynne <d...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dann <detox...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008/10/14
> &name=Doonesbury>
> Mr. Trudeau doesn't get it. Writing for a blog doesn't require that the
> subject be handled in a non-serious manner. At the very least, a serious
> reporter switching from writing for a serious news organization to > writing
> for his own site need not abandon his prior approach to gathering
> information.
Whatever Mr. Trudeau doesn't get about blogging, I would suggest that you
have a lot to learn about comedy. :)
Useful hint: Doonesbury is not a documentary.
Certainly not.
But Rick's supposed transformation from a theoretically hard hitting
reporter of real news to a blogger focused on irrelevant minutia is
poor character development, IMO.
It is, IMO, DS....Doonesbury Sh!t.
I assume that Mr. Trudeau is actually trying to criticize both the
trend away from large, professional news gathering organizations. I
also assume he is attempting to simultaneously heap scorn on the
theory that blogs can generate hard news in place of large news
organizations.
Unfortunately, his methodology from both objectives is to take a news
reporter and turn him into a writer for an entertainment blog. The
choice of writing for the WaPo or for Gawker is a false choice.
IMO, blogs do four things well:
1) give amateurs (like me) a chance to shoot of their mouths
2) news aggregators - reading blogs written by people with similar
interests will typically result in links to real news stories that
will also be of similar interest [i.e. Instapundit, gas2.org, etc.]
3) edit/catch errors for the MSM [i.e. Dan Rather's story based on
obviously fake National Guard memos]
I don't think it has been thoroughly proven that the National Guard memos were fake. And Bush really never
answered as to where he was when he should have been reporting for duty
4) report on hyper-local/hyper-specific issues and/or on issues that
are generally under-reported by the MSM [Michael Yon, Michael Totten,
The Long Wars Journal]
It would be more realistic for Rick Redfern, notable journalist, to
end up filling a niche by writing about a specific area of interest
and publishing on multiple platforms so that he would have multiple
income sources. [i.e. news magazines, his one website, writing books]
But that more realistic story line apparently doesn't fit Mr.
Trudeau's narrative.
--
Regards,
Dann
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