… and pajama-wearing bloggers are dumb, untrained and downright scary because they don’t know “the rules” and can’t be trusted to be responsible (and worse, they’re very often conservatives!).
Didja know that?
Well that’s what I hear from some “professional” “journalists”—usually the extreme left liberals among them who are constantly defending the Dan Rathers of the world, and other such “professional” “journalists”.
So at the risk of overstating my case and making a bigger issue out of it than is warranted, it is at least worth pointing this out.
Personally, while biased (on purpose—I admit it right up front—that’s my job), I try to abide by normal journalistic practices and hey you know what? —I’m guided by values that are even higher up than those. So for example, I always link to my source when I quote people. I don’t just quote people without saying where I got the quote from—or very rarely anyway, and only when it simply doesn’t matter and it’s entirely irrelevant.
…Which is why when professional journalist and columnist Barbara Yaffe, writing in the foremost newspaper in Canada’s second largest city quotes me directly, word-for-word, and in fact uses my words as an example of what bloggers are saying about an issue, and she doesn’t bother to mention my name or this web site’s name as her source, it’s a little confusing for amateur me and my amateur colleagues in the pajamahideen.
I thought it was fair that if my words made her column better, she should at least offer her readers the chance to know who said those words, and at least offer me the benefit of a little credit.
Barbara Yaffe says in her Vancouver Sun column today:
I checked bloggers’ websites to confirm my own assessment that Pettigrew’s pants, at the moment, are down around his ankles.
I found much of the commentary unfit for a family newspaper, but the general thrust indicates Martin will have to engage in some pretty serious damage control.
– “I have a very hard time seeing how it’s even the slightest bit important that a state-employed chauffeur get a glimpse of anything other than the road ahead of him in Ottawa.”
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