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Short Takes: News From All Over: January 20, 2005

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January 2005
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Heartaches of Journalist Bloggers
By Adam L. Penenberg, Wired News
Mainstream media outlets have reacted differently to the blog revolution. To cash in on the next big thing, some have scouted out popular bloggers and put them on the payroll. Others have labeled blogging as conduct unbecoming to an objective journalist and instructed their employees to cease and desist. Both tacks are wrong-headed, argues Wired News writer Adam L. Penenberg. The first because it strips blogs of the scoops and opinions that attract readers in the first place. The second because it makes the age old mistake of confusing objectivity with he said, she said reporting. -- Hannah Lobel
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66251,00.html

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Garbage to You
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Dallas alternative press muckraker Jim Schutze was forced by his wife's nagging to look into the city's decision to trash what it considered homeless people's trash. Schutze inventories the losses of several victims of the clean-up operation and offers a glimpse of the personal treasures in the duffels, trash bags and shopping carts that, like Dallas' powers that be, many of us assume are stuffed with garbage. -- Hannah Lobel
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-01-13/news/schutze.html

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