Nicholas Lemann, head of Columbia’s J-school writes a piece in his magazine alma mater, The New Yorker, today trying to pit professional vs. citizen journalism (and he includes a post from me at my theatrical snarkiest). I’m in the front seat of my car (not driving) and I’ll write about the piece shortly. But I wanted to give you the link now.
“—everything from Chilean newspaper stories and entries in German encyclopedias to papers presented at Micronesian conferences on accounting methods—”
He got paid for this? Because I got a friend sitting on the other side of the bar that could just wax this guy and he’ll do it for free.