I'm the Web editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. I also write the Backroads feature every other week.
In case you were checking up on me, my Twitter account is one of many affected by a bug that somehow multiplied our tweet counts by a factor of roughly three. I have not tweeted more than 11,300 times, but if you want to think of me as being that prolific, be my guest.
Quality journalism takes training, time and tenacity. Although it’s easy to fill space with words, pictures and videos that are produced quickly and on the cheap, down-and-dirty “journalism” is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories.
The more empty calories you consume, the unhealthier you get. It won’t be good for our democracy – let alone our self-esteem as journalists – if we attempt to nourish vital local, state and national conversations with the journalistic equivalent of Ding Dongs and McNuggets.
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A new Pew study shows that young people use the heck out of the Internet; they just don't seem to be using it to blog. They also use the heck out of social networking sites, just not Twitter.
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Our latest Chronicle video, shot by Michael Gibney, edited by me.
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And I learned that the notion of objectivity is a fig leaf for journalists who don’t want to deal honestly with our own humanity and don’t want to take personal responsibility for the human impact of our journalism. We’re just doing our jobs. We’re just being objective. Objects can’t be responsible.
To be honest, I'm only about this far into Steve Buttry's article, but I had to stop and share this paragraph. It's one of those issues that constantly sticks in our craws as journalists. How involved are we allowed to get? How is truth related to and affected by objectivity?
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