{"id":2331,"date":"2010-06-16T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:58:50","slug":"the_muquama_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"The Muquama On Journalism &#8211; A Must-Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\/2010\/06\/journalist-fail.html\" target=\"browser\">Abu Mookie (Andrew Exum) has about the best, clearest, explanation of what blogging means to the practice of journalism<\/a> that I&#8217;ve ever seen (and I read most of that stuff):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You want to hasten the end of your industry? Then by all means, keep doing what you&#8217;re doing: consider yourself unaccountable and scoff at the blogosphere. Yes, I understand bloggers are changing the newspaper industry in fundamental ways. (Ezra Klein, to use one example, does not blog with the same tradition of objectivity in which the Washington Post&#8217;s print journalists report. How that changes the culture of the newsroom, then, is interesting.) But if you think you don&#8217;t need to answer to bloggers, some of whom have spent years doing field research or working in Central Asia and now blog as a hobby, the invisible hand of the market is going to find you out. And before you know it, you&#8217;ll have taken a buy-out from the New York Times and be teaching creative writing in Maryland. And, let&#8217;s face it, probably blogging on the side.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Exum nails the issue of bloggers v. journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}