The Borg Strikes Twitterville: No Twittering for Journalists says WaPo

So now we are discovering that people have opinions,  and that they share them with people they know.  Raju Narisetti, a WaPo editor, had some tweets recently that revealed *gasp* that he had opinions about issues. When word leaked out that he had his own opinions and was sharing them on Twitter, apparently the WaPo top brass scrambled quickly to Continue Reading

UMR Blog: bloggers vs journalism

UMR , Jay, and others on “reporting” and bloggers.  Robin Russell at UMR has written a piece about blogging and journalism. After all, it’s pretty simple to Google various news sites and then give your opinion. But that doesn’t make you a “newspaperman,” as Feagler writes: “Bloggers. Have they ridden with a candidate in the middle of the night? Have Continue Reading