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    The reason bloggers aren't journalists

    It's amazing how well the last senternce of this quote applies to bloggers. 

    When bloggers say they aren't journalists they're right. Bloggers are more worried about ranking well than doing good. We're in it to fill our own ego not to fill a real need. (Yes I said we.)  

    From the recent Slate article via @foster208: http://bit.ly/Jz84p

    Another way of saying what I was trying to say at #IB2.http://bit.ly/Jz84p

    — John M. Foster (@foster208) July 19, 2009
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    When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died, media stars everywhere commemorated his death as though he were one of them -- as though they do what he did -- even though he had nothing but bottomless, intense disdain for everything they do.  As he put it in a 2005 speech to students at the Columbia School of Journalism:  "the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be . . . . By and large, the more famous you are, the less of a journalist you are." 

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    Post-Social. Futurist.
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    Husband of Jen. Father of 3.

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    Post-Social. Futurist.
    Digital anthropologist.
    Gen X. Geek.
    Expat from Seattle, living in London.
    Husband of Jen. Father of 3.

    This is a collection of notes, thoughts and pics that I've created, collected and then scattered across the Web.

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