Comments on: “A landmark day for bloggers — and the future of journalism” http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: op99 http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8235 op99 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:29:35 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8235 Josh is a real class act - couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. Josh is a real class act – couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

]]> By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8138 lotus Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:25:58 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8138 Naw, irate, Josh is the daddy of us all, and I'm so proud for him and the TPM masses. Listen to how Will Bunch closes his post: <blockquote>The beautiful thing about investigative reporting on blogs is narrowcasting, because a site like TalkingPointsMemo isn't expected to be all-inclusive like the Washington Post or Time magazine. In the spring of 2007, Josh Marshall and Justin Rood and Paul Kiel and David Kurtz weren't under any kind of moral obligation to cover all the news that's fit to print about the French elections, the Virginia Tech massacre or even the mounting death toll in Iraq. Such issues were mentioned in short posts on occasion, but the bloggers knew that their readers -- and, frankly, the public record and ensuing debates -- were better served by running with the U.S. attorney's scandal 24 hours a day. And why not? In a world of search engines and infinite cyberspace, any interested Web surfer can find the latest news from Paris or Blacksburg or Ramadi within a matter of seconds. And now, some of the leading traditional journalists in America have acknowledged this. That's why it's a landmark day -- not just for bloggers, but for the news business. </blockquote> True dat. Naw, irate, Josh is the daddy of us all, and I’m so proud for him and the TPM masses.

Listen to how Will Bunch closes his post:

The beautiful thing about investigative reporting on blogs is narrowcasting, because a site like TalkingPointsMemo isn’t expected to be all-inclusive like the Washington Post or Time magazine. In the spring of 2007, Josh Marshall and Justin Rood and Paul Kiel and David Kurtz weren’t under any kind of moral obligation to cover all the news that’s fit to print about the French elections, the Virginia Tech massacre or even the mounting death toll in Iraq. Such issues were mentioned in short posts on occasion, but the bloggers knew that their readers — and, frankly, the public record and ensuing debates — were better served by running with the U.S. attorney’s scandal 24 hours a day. And why not? In a world of search engines and infinite cyberspace, any interested Web surfer can find the latest news from Paris or Blacksburg or Ramadi within a matter of seconds.

And now, some of the leading traditional journalists in America have acknowledged this. That’s why it’s a landmark day — not just for bloggers, but for the news business.

True dat.

]]> By: iratetoday http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8135 iratetoday Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:16:59 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2008/02/19/a-landmark-day-for-bloggers-and-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-8135 Hell at the rate you and NMC are going they may be shaped like a lotus flower! Hell at the rate you and NMC are going they may be shaped like a lotus flower!

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