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Two Bros Bro Down on "Is the Web Making Journalism, Like, Bad?"
So this is happening: "To accompany The Economist's special report on the news industry, Jay Rosen and Nicholas Carr are debating whether the Internet is making journalism better." Mmmmkay….
Jay: LIKE, YES. IT IS, SO MUCH BETTER.
Nicholas: Do you say so, chappie?
Jay: UH HUH.
Nicholas: I will debate with you! The webs are making journalism far worse than it is.
Jay: HOWEVER COULD THAT BE, THE HEARST CHICAGO-AMERICAN, YELLOW JOURNALISM, CORPORATE OVERLORDS, YADDA YADDA. GOOGLE PLUS, BRIAN STELTER, NYU STUDENTS, PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
Nicholas: I WENT TO HARVARD AND I MAKE WELL INTO THE SIX FIGURES.
Jay: SOMETHING SOMETHING AJ LIEBLING.
They ramble on about their professional feelings for a while as a bunch of women continue actually working.
You couldn't get the Shadow Editors to talk about this?
@Miles Klee My offer to pay real money for more Shadow Editors still stands.
I read 'Brian Stelter' as 'Brian Spetzer' and was immediately excited by the thought of these guys playing in his awful orchestra.
“Journalism is not like brain surgery or flying a 747, which are not improved by having more hands on deck.” according to Rosen.
Couldn't agree more. Journalism is more like running a brothel because eventually a whore is going to run the place.
No wait, journalism is more like building a waterpark because fuck if some bodies ain't gonna get wet.
No wait, it's not that at all. Journalism is more like the movie Cruising with Al Pacino because eventually it will turn you into a gay leatherboy.
No, no, it's not that either. Journalism is more like managing a trailer park. Because everyone is late with the rent and you can exchange sex for crystal meth.
Yeah that's it. Journalism is like managing a trailer park.
@saythatscool And if Tom Friedman ever pens a column on journalism he can look to this comment for inspiration.
can i +1 this already?
If someone wants to write about this writing which is a reaction to Choire's hilarious writing linking/mocking a writing about journalistic writing (aloud readers gasp for breath) it would be super meta of you.
@whizzard Yo dawg.