{"id":317,"date":"2007-08-20T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/standards-of-journalism\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T04:01:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T12:01:06","slug":"standards-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/newspapers\/standards-of-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards of Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Print journalists criticizing bloggers is nothing new. So when Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University, wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, <\/em>in which he asserted that bloggers do no real reporting, it was difficult to suppress a yawn.<\/p>\n

To bolster its argument — or to give it the appearance of specificity — Skube’s article mentioned four blogs by name. One of those was Talking Point Memo<\/a>. TPM found that odd and sent Skube an e-mail, to which he responded<\/p>\n

I didn’t put your name into the piece and haven’t spent any time on your site. So to that extent I’m happy to give you benefit of the doubt …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gosh that’s generous! To that extent! The benefit of the doubt!<\/p>\n

TPM followed up, pointing out that his article — which had appeared that very day — had in fact mentioned the site by name. And got another response:<\/p>\n

I said I did not refer to you in the original. Your name was inserted late by an editor who perhaps thought I needed to cite more examples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In short, the esteemed journalism professor, in an article criticizing online reporting, allowed an opinion to go to print under his byline about a subject he never researched and admits knowing nothing about.<\/p>\n

There is just so much still to learn from print journalists.<\/p>\n

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