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July 3, 2008
Writing the New Newspaper
Politics as Puppetry
Atlantic Yards Report gets a nod, and The New York Times a tweak, in this critique of "traditional" newspapers.
Yes, in the future, we may not have full time reporters. That does not mean we won’t have real journalism - it just means the people writing will have to be something other than merely reporters (who, despite “rubbing shoulders with a cop, a defense attorney or a distressed family in a Red Cross shelter” often fall into their own absurd or asinine habits that keep them from being effective). More likely we will have savants and celebrity, either people working, living then writing about it from the grounded perspective of an area-specific Savant (see Atlantic Yards Report or Brownstoner for New York examples), or folks who capitalize on their name or style to build readership....
NoLandGrab: Though Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report may diplay savant-like charachteristics, it should be noted that he is a journalist by profession.
Posted by eric at July 3, 2008 9:14 PM