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Mike Barnicle On "Journalism" And "Blogging"

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Yglesias and one of his commenters:

BARNICLE: [S]omeone ought to tell Governor Palin that there’s a distinction between blogging and what she refers to as journalism. Blogging . . . I would say 95%; maybe 99% of blogging is basically therapy for the blogger.

True enough. At least it is not this:

Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle resigned from the newspaper Wednesday amid new allegations that he fabricated material for one of his columns published nearly three years ago. The resignation comes less than a week after the Globe underwent what the newspaper's editor termed a "painful" ordeal with Barnicle over an August 2, 1998 column that contained material from a book by George Carlin. The columnist was suspended, then asked for his resignation, then suspended for two months without pay . . .

Way to hold up the honor and dignity of journalism there Mike. Of course Barnicle is also a stone cold sexist to boot.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).