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Re: Journals of Applied Journalism
Not only "full of shit," not only "full of shit as a matter of course," but "full of shit as a matter of course dressed up as expert and authoritative." "It's somewhat of a false choice. Again, a great deal of ordinary print and broadcast journalism is no less tendentious, ill-considered, poorly informed and outright wrong than the averge blog. It's just decked out in a suit of ink and an increasingly anachronistic hauteur." Quite so, and it's by cultivating readerships, shared circles of interest and sense, that people can find alliances of people who show a pattern of useful advice and information, whom they may trust to help inform them about geopolitics, economics, the tech industries, whatever. (Since I just used the word "trust" I'll probably blog something like this in conjunction with Jacob Shwirta's request for commentary on trust earlier...).
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