Print This Post Print This Post

Nov

16

Kos & Karl: Will Newsweek work, where the PD didn’t? Plus, Wide Open feed o’ the day


From the Politico re: Markos of Daily Kos and Karl Rove will contribute to Newsweek:

“One of the reasons that I’m excited about this is because voices like mine and people I represent — our voices have not been portrayed in the traditional media at all,” Moulitsas added.

Of course, Moulitsas admitted he might have to adjust his style for a more general — and certainly less partisan — audience.

“I can’t assume that people know what I’m talking about,” he said. But Moulitsas added that he’s been published in mainstream publications before, and “can write AP style” when called upon.

Moulitsas said he hopes this is a first step in Newsweek bringing in more partisan voices from the blogosphere.

“I want to show that publications can take risks and use writers who are building their name online,” Moulitsas said. “This is actually a good place to find talent and use it. If I’m the one and only person, I think it will be a failure.”

National affairs editor Bret Begun will be editing both Rove and Moulitsas, the latter who told Politico that he has already filed his first piece for Newsweek’s website.

Well – will it? And why? Or why not?

Wide Open Feeds o’ the Day:

From Tish Grier, Journalism Moving Forward, Journalism Staring Backward

From Cyberjournalist.net: “Provocatively paranoid about the Internet”

The Changing Media Landscape:

Announcement on Cyberjournalist.net

New York Times blog post about the event, which was this past Tuesday evening

Archived webcast of it at GroundTV.org

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:53 pm November 16th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Wide Open 

Comments

2 Responses to “Kos & Karl: Will Newsweek work, where the PD didn’t? Plus, Wide Open feed o’ the day”

  1. 1 Keith on November 16th, 2007 2:02 pm

    Oh of course it will work. The ground rules are firmly established, everyone knows what they are doing and Kos and Rove are both on the reservation on both sides of the political parameters and know where not to stray. It will probably never have to be edited and if it ultimately fails it will probably be because it became too boring and predictable.

    Which is death for blogs, IMHO.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on November 16th, 2007 7:22 pm

    I agree that they will be predictable. I don’t know how they cannot be predictable, given their obvious bias.

    That was something that I don’t think was true of Wide Open all the time. Sure, commenters loved to say, Aha!!! You are so predictable, but that was usually if we allowed ourselves to be set up into some trap which most of the time we wouldn’t – and then commenters decided that THAT was what was predictable (that I would fence-sit).

    Whatever.

    That’s why we must just mine our thoughts and observations and questions. What else really has staying power or influence?

Leave a Reply




"));