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Rethinking objectivity: how not to kill traditional media

Thursday | December 9, 2004 | 7:59 pm  

Objectivity has to mean more than side a / side b

Get the the Truth, with capital T, or as close as we can.

Two faces to newspapers, smaller group of reporters (young ones?) blog all day on their beats. Just the facts ma’am, well and a little bit of personality.

While the paper/non-blog Web site resembles more of a news magazine. We go in-depth (but on tighter deadlines than a mag) on the issue of the day/week. Not what did the prez say about the budget deficity, and what did the minority leader say? What does it actually mean. Get some economists, get the numbers, run them yourselves.

Go deep, and leave superficiality to TV.

In the interim, we need to integrate with the blogosphere. Ditch paid content, ditch registration. Supply RSS/Atom feeds. Open up our stories to commenting.

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