journalists

C.L. discusses the difference between journalists and bloggers:

I just read a blog from a guy who was touting that he was a “real” journalist because his blog “broke a story.” Then he chided an actual newspaper for “claiming to break the story.

Lauren Rabaino writes this at her blog over Wired Journalists. It’s a great piece.

NashvillePost.com’s E. Thomas Wood tells the tale of one in his latest indispensable history column:

Ooops:

A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran.

Our bad!

(h/t, Atrios)

Ross Douthat on the emergence of the Republicans as a working class party:

A Knoxville blogger offers to take journalists shooting.

Frank Cagle has a must read column on the nature of the First Amendment and how it should apply to journalism and how some corporate newspapermen would prefer that it didn’t:

Dan and I have similar experiences about the newspaper business. His candid advice is priceless in this post about five lessons about newspaper contests. His post goes into detail about these contests that we as journalists know about and have all entered. Dan says he’s done with them.
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I was to visit Haiti this month with Compassion.  But then this happened…

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitians erected fiery barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices, which have killed five people, paralyzed the impoverished nation’s capital.

I was flipping through the channels last night, and ran across a program from the 1980s on channel 10 (Annenberg Media). Its a 13 part series on the Constitution which brings together legislators, judges, journalists, and lawyers together to discuss. Very interesting stuff, especially watching a young Orin Hatch and Charlie Rangel debate gun control.