Notes &
We talked for 20-30 minutes by phone. About 30 seconds of dialog, remixed to change the meaning and context entirely, made it into the article as quotations. None of the rest of our talk seemed to influence his thesis, that blogs can’t be trusted, at all.
The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism
This is Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) on the same NYT article that Jeff Jarvis wrote about, and I linked to a couple posts ago. I wonder why no blogs / journalism outlets have started posting, in full (with off-the-record parts taken out), the interviews that are the source data for their articles? Particularly when one journalist is interviewing another journalist, one would think they’d both be press-savvy enough to be comfortable with the arrangement. Would love to hear the entire exchange here…