Gapingvoid quote on being a blogger:

From here: “The best thing about being a blogger is the people you get to meet.” I have found this to be true and self-evident. When I was younger, the people who inspired me the most professionally were famous, dead, or both. Since I become a blogger the people who inspired me the most became …

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Truth in journalism.

If I spent an hour on a story I would end up with a ‘truth’ that represented 60 minutes of effort. A week of effort would yield a 7 days of ‘truth’. What the facts mean is always subjective, regardless of the solidity of those facts. Good journalism chases honesty, not truth. Honesty is a …

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Monday Mentions. April 7th 2008

A week of links is a long time, but I’m behind by four whole weeks. There were about 60 outstanding, but they’ve settled down to this lot. I’m rather old fashioned in doing this manually Journalism: Richard Sambrook on the 4 types of citizen journalism and also tells us that ‘control doesn’t scale’. I’m still …

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