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Journologger

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If you’re as tired as a I am re: the “are bloggers journalists” questions, and yet you straddle the two practices as a matter of life, then you can probably understand why I’d come up with the word “Journologger.” One google search on the word didn’t bring up anything so I’m going to stick with it.

Now – how would we define it?

Well – I’m still reading Scott Gant‘s We’re All Journalists Now and there are some good pieces in it that flesh out the journologger, without using that word. When I have more time (huh?), I’ll continue this line of thought.

In the meantime, what do you think? It’s a bit awkward but then so is blogosphere and so was ombudsperson (which I was). “Blogolist” sounds worse though.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:59 pm December 2nd, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Writing | 6 Comments 

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Zach Reed tried to pull rank w/arresting officers, PD reports

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Man, I hate it when this happens.  Cleveland City Councilman Zach Reed really, still, didn’t seem to realize how low he’d gone when he was arrested just before Thanksgiving. From the Plain Dealer:

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed begged two police officers to release him last week, even asking them to call the police chief and union president before they jailed him on suspicion of drunken driving.

“Why am I not on your guys’ team?” Reed asked.

Reed asked the officers to take him to his house or nearby ward office, according to a tape recording of the arrest.

“Even if you take my keys, you can put my car there or move it around the corner,” Reed said. “Take me home. Just don’t arrest me. Please, officer. Please.”

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On the tape recording, the police officer told Reed that his speech was slurred and smelled of alcohol. Reed admitted he had been drinking.

He was charged with drunken driving and on Monday his attorneys entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.

“I have had a little more than I should have had,” Reed said.

Reed, who used to chair council’s Safety Committee, then reminded the officers that he has worked with the department.

“Sir, as you know, I have been one of your biggest supporters,” he said.

Councilman Kevin Conwell said Reed should not have tried to influence the officers or asked them to look the other way.

I don’t know if rehab is going to work this time.  I really have doubts – he just simply doesn’t sound like he’s prepared to give it up.  Not good, not good.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:12 am December 2nd, 2007 in Cleveland+, Culture, Government, Ohio, Politics, Scandal | 9 Comments 

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Aha…”influential bloggers” are journalists, suggests William Safire

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From William Safire in tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine column in which he offers reviews of gift-worthy books:

“The Elements of Journalism,” by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel (updated and revised paperback, Three Rivers Press, $14), subtitled “What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect.” Don’t even think of becoming a reporter, editor, columnist or influential blogger without reading this modern classic.

Doesn’t that seem like an oxymoron? Since the last thing journalists are stereotypically supposed to do is influence?

I am so confused.

Maybe someone will give me the book and it will be clearer to me.

Oh, wait – I own it already. I must have read it when I thought I was a freelance journalist and not a blogger, though now I think I’m both, or neither?

Vessels Sarcasm Alert Scale: 9

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:01 am December 2nd, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Writing | Comments Off 

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