Comments on: PD/Newhouse News: “Blogosphere could spawn tempest this primary season”

By: What the Plain Dealer left out when pointing finger at blogs | Writes Like She Talks

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:09:58 +0000

[...] in the Plain Dealer a few days ago. It’s by a Newhouse News writer. I wrote about it here on [...]

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:46:04 +0000

Thanks, Bill. I totally know what you mean – I’ve seen Sabato’s stuff referred to and I’ve read his blog just a few times but I really haven’t known where he fits in. Of course I know of Jeff Jarvis.

I would have liked the article to include some stuff maybe a place like the Bliss Institute or the John Glenn School or something in Ohio to localize the perspective.

Like I wrote, not news really. But then, maybe that’s even more telling! That Newhouse thinks that for its readers, this WOULD be news! ugh

By: Bill Sloat

Bill Sloat — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:26:12 +0000

Hi Jill –

It seems to me that the worst place to start an article about innovation and change and blogs is at the University of Virginia with Larry Sabato. He is a tired old quotemonger. He is a worn out, well-thumbed page in the roll-a-dex. Why on earth would somebody go to him for fresh insight? If there is any clue that journalism as we knew it is passe, then basing stories on Larry Sabato is it. He’s a nice guy, smart. But he is a guotemonger, and if you are a lazy reporter he might be one of the the first stops on your list of people to call. Quoting Larry Sabato — wow, that’s really original!!