Thursday, April 10, 2008

Update 3

Journalists v. Blogging
  • Brooks said that the line is fuzzy between journalists and bloggers. He says that personally will adapt a different mindset for different role: tv, radio, blog, print. "Blogging is just part of the American Conversation that happens to happen online."
  • Sometimes people he reads on-line don't have the same "inside perspective" that more traditional journalists have.
Future of Magazines
  • He does think that magazines will always have a place. Because they are more durable than blogs or newspaper columns. But books are the most important things, because people will put more effort into them than they ever will online.
  • While they will survive, they won't be profitable, they will have to rely on rich people, and luckily there are a lot of rich people.
Criticism
  • Says it took him a while to get used to the level of hostility. "I hadn't been hated on a mass scale before."
  • Views it as just part of the sport of discussion.

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