Russell Baker: Every Blogger Can Be a Columnist
Russell Baker, in the New York Review of Books, has an essay/review entitled: Goodbye to Newspapers? It’s eloquently written and a nice recap of what’s ailing the profession. I especially like what he said about bloggers and journalism:
Committed bloggers insist that they are practicing journalism just as surely as a correspondent like John Burns is practicing journalism when reporting on the Iraq war from Baghdad for The New York Times. Anyone wishing to debate the point must be ready to argue all night and well into next week. What is indisputable is that practically every blogger can now be a columnist. With vast armies of columnists blogging away, it seems inevitable that a few may eventually produce something original, arresting, and refreshing and so breathe new life into this worn-out journalistic form.
