Michael Kinsley believes traditional newspapers should view the Internet as an opportunity, not a threat. The rise of the blog as a source of news (although generally not the source) should be seen as a sign that there’s room for personality and individuality in news. “…An intelligent person, paid to learn about some subject, will naturally develop views about it. [It is] more truthful to express those views than to suppress them in the name of objectivity.”
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The rise of the blog as a source of news (although generally not the source) should be seen as a sign that there’s room for personality and individuality in news.
I wonder how much of a newspaper’s content is original and how much comes from wire stories?
For that matter … Liftport has sent out press releases. Thanks to the internet and rss from Google and Icerocket I see these as they are printed in the local papers. Nearly all print it verbatim, trimming to fit if required. Belinda Young doesn’t get the credit for writing it, the paper does.
I don’t think we’ve gotten many calls from these guys fact checking. We did get a few with the very first one, but they’ve tapered off.
Which is okay – Belinda doesn’t want a byline in the Apppleton Post-Crescent, she wants that release in the paper.
But – and of course she’s written it this way – it looks as if the paper has gone out and dug up the story. How much content in the paper is like that?
My meta point is that the newspaper is not now a source of news – they pass a great deal of it along like many bloggers do. They just don’t do it very efficiently.