If this is required reading for journalists, in this day and age, not that many people will have to read it. There aren't that many journalists. There are lots of human microphone stands. There are lots of sports pom pom wavers. There are lots of business cheerleaders. But unfortunately, journalists, those people who ask the questions that need to be asked, who dig, who don't take no for an answer, who go after the records and who seek verification rather than spending their time playing he said/she said, there aren't all that many of those.
So let me give this blog another title: required reading for anyone in a journalism school or working in any organization that pretends to do news.
Read Dan Gillmor's column in the Guardian. Then go ask your editor or news director one question: should we start doing journalism or just keep doing the crap we're doing?
When journalism fails, bad things happen.
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So let me give this blog another title: required reading for anyone in a journalism school or working in any organization that pretends to do news.
Read Dan Gillmor's column in the Guardian. Then go ask your editor or news director one question: should we start doing journalism or just keep doing the crap we're doing?
When journalism fails, bad things happen.
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