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Opinion: Blogger blowback

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As mentioned here previously, journalism professor Michael Skube’s Aug. 19 op-ed on how blogs can’t replace journalism has generated a torrent of negative feedback. Add to the list journalism professor Jay Rosen, who has penned an example-laden Blowback in response. An excerpt:

Dan Gillmor, a former newspaper man, calls it ‘journalistic malpractice.’ And it is that. Also pedagogical buffoonery. In Skube’s columns, there’s a teacher who doesn’t believe in doing his homework - any homework. So I did it for him.

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On the same topic, Editorial Page Editor Jim Newton has written a note to readers that includes this Skube statement over the controversial editing of the piece:

Before my Aug. 19 Opinion piece on bloggers was printed, an editor asked if it would be helpful to include the names of the bloggers in my piece as active participants in political debate. I agreed.

Whole thing here.

Thoughts on Skube, Rosen, Newton, or the L.A. Times? Leave ‘em in the comments.

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