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He Said She Said Journalism Dissected

By clock on April 12, 2009.

He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User by Jay Rosen. And his new podcast with Dave Winer, mostly about the AP fiasco, has been posted here. Worth a read and a listen.

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The physicist Jacques Distler blogged thusly in 2002:

The much-anticipated New York Times article on the Bogdanov scandal has appeared. Alas, it suffers from the usual journalistic conceit that a proper newspaper article must cover a âcontroversyâ. There must be two sides to the controversy, and the reporterâs job is to elicit quotes from both parties and present them side-by-side. Almost inevitably, this âbalancedâ approach sheds no light on the matter, and leaves the reader shaking his head, âThere they go againâ¦â