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BW Online | March 29, 2004 | Online Extra: "A Major Change in the Political Equation"
Q: What could make blogging more useful to the masses?
A: What's lacking is grounding in good journalism. It's a learned skill that requires some tutelage by people who understand it. I wish that the people in the news business, instead of fearing the bloggers, would help educate them.
Maybe it's not so much a matter of fear as it is the natural human tendency to not want to help people who call you obsolete, backwards and stupid. "Hey, dinosaur, can you show me how to write better ledes?"
And of course the blogging community has shown itself to to be extremely receptive to advice from the journalism community.