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The Internet Makes Media Reports Fair Targets

Posted by TimSlavin at October 7, 2004

"You interview someone by e-mail. You write up the story and edit what they said, condensing their quotes to a few saliable points. Your story runs, and that's that, you think. But to your surprise, your source decided to post all the interview questions and answers on their Weblog, showing the public that you cut something important to them.

More and more, blogs are giving sources the power to strike back and making journalists think twice about what they run in a story and how they conduct an interview."

Put another way, the internet helps journalists hew to higher standards than if their processes were less transparent. From Mark Glaser at the Online Journalism Review, the piece includes an interview with Mark Cuban, an American billionaire with attitude who used a weblog to get back at a journalist.
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http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1097017991.php

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