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Well, this is interesting:
December 28, 2012
Journalist makes Missouri Scout end-of-year list
Yokley to cover state Legislature for The Joplin Globe….Yokley said he does not think of himself so much as a blogger, but as a journalist.
In a recent interview, Yokley said: “Whenever I think ‘blogger,’ I think of partisan guys who sit in their basements and yell about things from the left or right. That’s not what I do….”
Oh, really? Don’t they teach you in J-school about avoiding that lazy default to tired cliches thing? Just asking.
In the good old days, before they taught him the secret handshake and the “all opposing views are equal” catechism.
It gets better:
Taunia Adams
Yesterday at 4:04pm ·What sets some people apart from others? A floor or two.
The Turner Report: New Joplin Globe state house correspondent: I’m not a blogger; I’m a journalist
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Tammy Fortysevenpercent Booth My hopes were never high for young Mr. Yokely. He was too easily smitten and eager to be liked by the people who are supposed to fear journalists to the extent that they behave themselves. Instead, he’s who Tim Jones would have hired if he was the one doing the Globe’s candidate search — a kid with stars in his eyes who will toe the mark and walk the party line.
Yesterday at 4:24pmEli Yokley You spelled my name wrong.
Anyway. Stay tuned.
Yesterday at 4:30pmTaunia Adams Pretty big dis to all the bloggers out there.
Yesterday at 4:32pmTammy Fortysevenpercent Booth Sorry about that — I was going to edit and correct, but now there is no need. As for staying tuned…I will.
Yesterday at 4:32pmEli Yokley I have never taken on the title ‘blogger’ because I never considered the work I do blogging. I took on the title of journalist because I believe I’ve spent the last nearly three years doing real shoe-leather journalism that I felt was lacking in Missouri. With The Fuse Joplin and PoliticMo, I took on journalism as a public service, and with the opportunity The Joplin Globe has given me, I hope to continue in that same spirt
Yesterday at 4:33pmTaunia Adams Cool. Why’d you take down the bloggers around you?
Yesterday at 4:34pmTammy Fortysevenpercent Booth Just remember why blogs evolved beyond the AOL chatroom stage…The traditional media has failed us miserably. That is why we all started doing the blogging thang — in my case eight years ago.
Yesterday at 4:35pmTammy Fortysevenpercent Booth And yes, I am offended at the sniffy “**I’m** not a blogger.” You sure as hell were, whether you want to own it or not.
Yesterday at 4:36pmShelley Powers Blogger is short for weblogger, which was derived, a long time ago, from the description for the software that allows people to easily publish online. Basically the same software that now powers every major online publication today.
Saying you’re not a blogger is like saying you’re not a typewriter or printing press.
Yesterday at 5:25pm
Dude, you don’t engage in a battle of wits with someone who was blogging when you still had Star Wars sheets on your bed.
Don’t forget to wave to us from the House press gallery. Oh, wait…
…But when Courtney introduced him to us at Truman Days a few years ago as “a fellow blogger” I don’t recall hearing any howls of protests that would indicate the grave insult that was visited upon him by that application of the “blogger” appellation. When we see her again we have to tell her to issue an apology forthwith, because I’m sure she will want to atone for the grievous and hateful put-down she hung on him. [/blogger snark]
I think my response to that is worth posting it in comments here:
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The distinction is an interesting one.
While Eli might want to find a less pejorative defination, there is a real difference. I think it is fair to say that, at its best, journalism strives for objectivity and is generally expected to pursue accuracy and objectivity, ( (hence the widspread contemt for FOX), while most readers expect POV from bloggers and do not condem bloggers for being one sided.
Nobody could reasonably argue that this blog is objective but I read it all the time because I am interested in the perspective of the writers and I usually share their bias.
Another indicator of the difference is anonyminity. No one would accept an anonymous journalist.
If this is the standard, then Eli generally falls on the journalism side of that equation.
Chris Kelly
that all bloggers are anonymous or even that anonymity it is bad for bloggers to anonymous, only that journalists ate not allowed that luxury.
I don’t like anonymity in public commentary but that horse is out of the barn.
Btw, I am very much one who is unskilled at the internets.
Chris Kelly