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From the article by Anastasia Pantsios, in which she demonstrates who gets it and who doesn’t:
In the flurry of online hand-wringing that followed [Jeff Coryell's and my departure], those who supported the PD’s action missed one essential point: the no-contributions rule was intended to maintain the appearance of print reporters’ impartiality, but the Wide Open bloggers were hired because they are not impartial.
But most interestingly to me, Sabrina Eaton makes a crucial error. I like Eaton – I’ve exchanged emails with her over time or left comments on her posts. But this quote contains a very, very obvious error, if one were to check out what she’s asserting:
Eaton points out a potential problem with partisan online features at a traditional daily’s Web site: “If you get to it through Google, it just leads you to that page and you don’t know that that writer has a bias. It just says Plain Dealer Wide Open. A politician could take a quote from Wide Open and put it in their literature and attribute it to the Plain Dealer.” It’s a valid concern, yet anything in the paper, from an op-ed to a quote from a fanatic can be – and in instances has been – taken out of context and attributed to the paper it appeared in.
Problem is – it doesn’t say “Plain Dealer Wide Open.” Never has, never did.
(Sorry Sabrina, believe me, I did a double-take before we started and I think I may even have mentioned this fact to the group in a conference call or email at least once.)
Sigh.
There’s a whole lotta illogic going on.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:59 pm November 6th, 2007 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Government, Media, Ohio, Politics, Tech, Writing
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