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February 09, 2005
Navel-Gazing
Jueman Zhang, formerly a reporter in Shanghai and now a graduate student in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is trying to collect data for his thesis on why people read politically-oriented weblogs that are written by non-journalists.
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Posted by DeLong at February 9, 2005 09:48 PM
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(Oh Why Can't We Have A Better Press Corps?)
The press has been compromised. Hope he doesn't waste a lot of paper trying to figure that out.
Posted by: SW at February 10, 2005 06:37 AM
So we can kick a** and take names!
(Oh, sorry, meant to respond there...)
Posted by: Tom Maguire at February 10, 2005 08:33 AM
Just did it. Hope it helps.
Posted by: Sean-Paul at February 10, 2005 08:36 AM
What's the Chinese word for 'hack'?
Posted by: Kuas at February 10, 2005 09:40 AM
I already read the conventional stuff. I read other things to get other opinions. Not necessarily correct opinions, just other opinions. I already know the conventional opinions are insane. So I have to go and look at other people to get opinions that may be right.
Posted by: walter willis at February 10, 2005 04:39 PM
Why read political blogs by non-journalists? Reading my first blog was like finding a light in the darkness - there are people out there thinking about things in a different way. Journalists tend to filter the info - and now we're ending up with the idea of "false equivalence." That is, let's have a nut from both sides, and don't put it in perspective.
Political journalists, even good ones, rely way too much on "conventional wisdom." This is what the Daily Howler has taught us, they are basically deciding the narrative, then picking things that match it.
Blogs have the advantage of being fast and self-correcting. I also like the participatory and community aspect. I've almost completely disengaged from mainstream news sources now. (OK, I still listen to NPR.)
Posted by: Unstable Isotope at February 10, 2005 06:50 PM