Comments on: One Web Day only days away http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/ by Jeff Jarvis Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: alan macleese http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-136394 alan macleese Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:38:07 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-136394 Frank Rich, who is doing truly great reportage in the NYT and now in "The Greatest Story Ever Sold,' makes a point crucial to newsgatherers, and one that fits in with the network or citiizen journalist concept promoted so astutely on this site. The point, nailed down by RIch and also noted by others, is about the impossiblity of a reporter covering news stories when one side is patently wrong, false, bad, the true evildoers. Someone said covering the Bushes would be like quoting a Nazi about the propriety of exterminating fellow humans. Normal newspaper reportage, even-handed and unbiased, Rich says, in effect, doesn't compute when dealing with lying sacks of shit like the Bush people. Would you attentively quote Adolf Hitler about the propriety of incinerating fellow human beings? Frank Rich points out, among all his other wonderful connecting of the rotten dots, that the average reporter needs to rise above sources, needs to be just as important in the scheme of things as his or her editors, and their owners., particularly the owners. And that struck me, JJ, because this is precisely what the network journalists can do; Rich is laying it out there for all the reporters of our future, and if Rich, and his likes,are not recognized and followed, we're truly fucked. -30- alhallowell Frank Rich, who is doing truly great reportage in the NYT and now in “The Greatest Story Ever Sold,’ makes a point crucial to newsgatherers, and one that fits in with the network or citiizen journalist concept promoted so astutely on this site.
The point, nailed down by RIch and also noted by others, is about the impossiblity of a reporter covering news stories when one side is patently wrong, false, bad, the true evildoers. Someone said covering the Bushes would be like quoting a Nazi about the propriety of exterminating fellow humans.
Normal newspaper reportage, even-handed and unbiased, Rich says, in effect, doesn’t compute when dealing with lying sacks of shit like the Bush people. Would you attentively quote Adolf Hitler about the propriety of incinerating fellow human beings?
Frank Rich points out, among all his other wonderful connecting of the rotten dots, that the average reporter needs to rise above sources, needs to be just as important in the scheme of things as his or her editors, and their owners., particularly the owners.
And that struck me, JJ, because this is precisely what the network journalists can do; Rich is laying it out there for all the reporters of our future, and if Rich, and his likes,are not recognized and followed, we’re truly fucked.
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alhallowell

]]> By: pheloxi http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-135774 pheloxi Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:18:03 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-135774 it is <a href="http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/unresolution" rel="nofollow">International Day of Peace</a> on 21st September. <a href="http://www.peaceoneday.org/" rel="nofollow">peace one day</a>! it is International Day of Peace on 21st September.

peace one day!

]]> By: Kris http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-135277 Kris Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:27:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/09/16/one-web-day-only-days-away/#comment-135277 That sounds like a fun even to attend, Jeff I am assuming you too shall be attending If I can make it up there I will look for you it would be awsome to meet you. That sounds like a fun even to attend, Jeff I am assuming you too shall be attending If I can make it up there I will look for you it would be awsome to meet you.

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