http://techliberation.com/2007/08/30/responding-to-skube/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/30/responding-to-skube/comment-page-1/#comment-55332 MikeT Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:25:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/30/responding-to-skube/#comment-55332 <p>Blogging is about a platform, not what you do with it. That's why the assertion by populists like Michelle Malkin that bloggers are "citizen journalists" are so asinine. I'm no more of a journalist than Radley Balko is a software engineer. Both of us are bloggers. That's about it. We do with blogging as we please, and the deficiency of non-journalist bloggers is not a slap in the face of the bloggers like Balko who are journalists and use their blogs in part for journalism.</p> Blogging is about a platform, not what you do with it. That’s why the assertion by populists like Michelle Malkin that bloggers are “citizen journalists” are so asinine. I’m no more of a journalist than Radley Balko is a software engineer. Both of us are bloggers. That’s about it. We do with blogging as we please, and the deficiency of non-journalist bloggers is not a slap in the face of the bloggers like Balko who are journalists and use their blogs in part for journalism.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/30/responding-to-skube/comment-page-1/#comment-39267 MikeT Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:25:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/30/responding-to-skube/#comment-39267 <p>Blogging is about a platform, not what you do with it. That's why the assertion by populists like Michelle Malkin that bloggers are "citizen journalists" are so asinine. I'm no more of a journalist than Radley Balko is a software engineer. Both of us are bloggers. That's about it. We do with blogging as we please, and the deficiency of non-journalist bloggers is not a slap in the face of the bloggers like Balko who are journalists and use their blogs in part for journalism.</p> Blogging is about a platform, not what you do with it. That’s why the assertion by populists like Michelle Malkin that bloggers are “citizen journalists” are so asinine. I’m no more of a journalist than Radley Balko is a software engineer. Both of us are bloggers. That’s about it. We do with blogging as we please, and the deficiency of non-journalist bloggers is not a slap in the face of the bloggers like Balko who are journalists and use their blogs in part for journalism.

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