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'Ah, but that is what has to change: the editors' heads,' the journalism school professor [Jeff Jarvis] replied. 'They have to discover what their real value is, and it is not being first with quoted blather. It is being the smartest, or most useful, or most reliable.' That may be true, but they won't change their minds overnight. And, speaking as a reporter who formerly trafficked in deeply off-the-record information on a daily basis, the plate-glass transparency of a world in which every interviewee announces your phone call the second after you hang up promises to play havoc with how stories and even publications are made on a daily basis."
That's exactly the kind of article we need now: a practical look at how bloggers and journalists interact in the real world, for better or worse. We can sit here all day and gripe everytime the "mainstream media" screws up, but that's not going to pay our bills. We all want to be able to support ourselves with writing, so let's stop talking about journalism theory and look at how we can deal with this on a daily working basis.
What do you think?
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