Re:Why Aren't Top Journalists Rich?
by tokenadult on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @06:48PM
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I try not to stop reading too early. Drudge is not a journalist. Indeed, I have seen at least definition of "journalist" (a "reporter who writes for an editor") that was described in the source I saw it in as an explicit exclusion of Drudge from the ranks of journalists.
A blog post, "Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matter,"
illustrates some of the reach that "traditional" journalism still has. The quality of professionally edited journalistic submissions to HN, as contrasted with the quality of many (although not all) blog posts submitted here, suggests that there is still a role for journalism in promoting more informed, more thoughtful discussion of issues we all care about.
A blog post, "Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matter,"
http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6083
submitted to Hacker News earlier today to no discussion,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907627
illustrates some of the reach that "traditional" journalism still has. The quality of professionally edited journalistic submissions to HN, as contrasted with the quality of many (although not all) blog posts submitted here, suggests that there is still a role for journalism in promoting more informed, more thoughtful discussion of issues we all care about.