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


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 

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