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Originally Posted by R Jones
I've forwarded the FIPR links to technology correspondents Charles Arthur of the Guardian (direct email) and Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC via the BBC news site feedback page - might as well get mainstream as quickly as possible.
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charles always worrys me though,and its not "assumption" as he puts it, his actions or rather lack of actions other than trying to keep up with chris at ElReg by rehashing old Phorm links etc, dont match up with this recent comments.
his opportune putdown of kurt at the PIA not withstanding OC, but he doesnt seem to be trying to hard in this must important issue for some reason.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...eed=technology
"Some blogger'
Except not quite. On a
ZDNet discussion, one commenter said:
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Isn't it interesting that it is some blogger that actually engages in true investigative journalism. The big news houses like ZDNet, ComputerWorld, etc. simply re-printed press releases. Methinks the small mammals are going to outlive the aging, soon to be extinct dinosaurs."
"Some blogger"? Jings.
It's nice to have the situation so perfectly described in reverse. OK, so I pointed out Psystar's bizarre changes of address on a blog, but it's still the Guardian's blog, not my back room. (Not that there was a press release, either; only a few lines on Mac Rumors, and the Psystar website itself.)
It's a worrying trend, though, this assumption that newspapers can't and won't do "real journalism" (what one could describe as "finding out something readers don't yet know").
To be honest, the reverse is true. Most non-journalist bloggers don't have the time or inclination to imagine the necessary mischief required to do journalism day in, day out.
Because non-routine journalism is about finding, or causing, trouble.
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