From David Wharton of the Los Angeles Times:
“We’re trying to make money on this,” said A.J. Daulerio, a senior writer for Deadspin. “Without going completely porn, the best way to do that is to add a more journalistic element.”
Which can mean taking fewer chances.
“It’s the difference between living in a dorm room you can trash and buying your own home,” said Niles, a former editor of USC’s discontinued Online Journalism Review. “You say, ‘I want to live here a while, so I have to treat this with respect.’ ”
There is an element of irony, blogs adopting journalistic conventions as newspapers try to entice young readers with Internet-like edginess, the sides inching toward what McIntyre called “a sketchy middle ground.” [Read]
June 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Nice article. Thanks.
It’s as I often say, “Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.”
That holds true for blogging. Brashness is the crack cocaine of blogging: there must be SOME reason why people do it, but surely the long term consequences do not make it worth it.