Quote of the day from Robert Laird
A journalist who 'gets it'
"Resisting the rolling vote of the Internet as if it were some negligible troublemaker rather than a tsunami is suicidal. Its armies of fact-checkers and near eternal memory mean that print journalists must change. Their business has stopped being a private club. They must read their critics, do more follow-ups, cite more and better identified sources, admit mistakes fully and prominently, and undertake to criticize themselves as conscientiously as if they understood there was more than one legitimate perspective on their work.
Above all, they have to accept that there will never be a last page."
Hat tip to
Newsbeat
Robert's web page is here:
Instapunk
He is the author of
The Boomer Bible
Posted by DaveH at September 26, 2007 9:16 PM