Dear Daniel, Rob, and All: Yes, I work at the Washington Post, although nowadays I'm mostly an editor. There are many kinds of reporters. One is a new breed of Internet or blog reporter, who functions without journalism training or editorial oversight. Perhaps he (or she) is a reporter simply because he calls himself one. I began my training in eighth grade. In college I had to take a First Amendment and media law course before I could take my first journalism class. At the Washington Post there had generally been three layers of editors reviewing a story before it appeared; today it is being compressed into "two touches." Fact-checking takes time, and editors must be paid, so accurate reporting is time- and labor-intensive. Today's blogosphere, which rewards unschooled right-wing loudmouths who spew half-truths and worse, has no interest in that. In short, you get what you pay for. Online articles are sometimes by non- experts and are not edited, but they're free. Everyone wants things free nowadays but complains when it does not meet their standards of accuracy. Cheers, Jim
From: Daniel Shoskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/04/17 Thu AM 06:05:49 CDT To: Anthony Hind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!! On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: >> > Ooooh, I have remembered, the last time I mentioned lawyers, all the > lutists on our list turned out to be barristers, I mentioned bows and > lutes, and everyone was an archer, gun-buts and lutes and up popped a > few lute playing gun-smiths. How many reporter-lutists do we have > lurking on our list? > Jim Stimson works (or at least worked) for the Washington Post. But don't quote me on that! DS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
