The Real Difference Between Bloggers and Reporters

The Horserace Blog posts election analyses on Kerry and the Democrats and Bush and the Republicans; also, a farewell.

Here's a bit of the second analysis, concerning one of the Bush's administration's blunders:

.... They were similarly incompetent in this year’s first iteration of the National Guard story. They dumped hundreds of pages of documents in the lap of the media without explaining any of them. It is difficult to do anything that angers the press more than an unexplained “document dump.” They hate having to figure stories out for themselves — particularly when they must derive the story from 30 year old, technical military documents and dental records!...

This, Faithful Reader, is the real difference between reporters and bloggers: reporters hate having to figure stories out for themselves, and bloggers love having to figure out stories for themselves.

:-)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 11/09/04 06:30:34 AM
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