Comments on: Shooting before Aiming http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Iulian Comanescu http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-49959 Iulian Comanescu Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:07:37 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-49959 You're perfectly right from the classical journalism point of view. However, as a professional journalist maintaining two blogs for the last couple of months, I can notice that a blogger seldom has the same weapons as a journalist. Of course, in the Yahoo case a questioning e-mail was perfectly possible. But in other cases, a single person can't check the facts to the same extent that an editorial team can. This is why on Romanian blogs professionals tend to mark as such uncertain information or rather question than accuse in cases like the one above. You’re perfectly right from the classical journalism point of view. However, as a professional journalist maintaining two blogs for the last couple of months, I can notice that a blogger seldom has the same weapons as a journalist. Of course, in the Yahoo case a questioning e-mail was perfectly possible. But in other cases, a single person can’t check the facts to the same extent that an editorial team can.

This is why on Romanian blogs professionals tend to mark as such uncertain information or rather question than accuse in cases like the one above.

]]> By: Dan Gillmor http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-49270 Dan Gillmor Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:06:51 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-49270 Delia, I'm offering no opinion about the quality of the writing... Delia, I’m offering no opinion about the quality of the writing…

]]> By: Delia http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-48678 Delia Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:22:34 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/24/shooting-before-aiming/#comment-48678 Dan: if it wasn't unethical it seems to have been just plain dumb... (this reads like something straight out of an advertisement pamphlet to me...) "Dash's new Express In-Car navigation system (dash.net) might not help with your primary search (finding a potential mate), but it will keep you on the right path. It's the first nav system with two-way connectivity, not only using Wi-Fi and cellular networks to pull in traffic and weather conditions, but also communicating with other Dash drivers and adjusting your route accordingly." Delia P.S. then again, the leading passage sounds ever worse:"Women like strong men, and not sob stories. Give yourself a testosterone boost by purchasing something manly. Like electronics." (sounds like a desperate door to door salesman... what's wrong with this guy? can't he see what this reads like?) D. Dan: if it wasn’t unethical it seems to have been just plain dumb… (this reads like something straight out of an advertisement pamphlet to me…)

“Dash’s new Express In-Car navigation system (dash.net) might not help with your primary search (finding a potential mate), but it will keep you on the right path. It’s the first nav system with two-way connectivity, not only using Wi-Fi and cellular networks to pull in traffic and weather conditions, but also communicating with other Dash drivers and adjusting your route accordingly.”

Delia

P.S. then again, the leading passage sounds ever worse:”Women like strong men, and not sob stories. Give yourself a testosterone boost by purchasing something manly. Like electronics.” (sounds like a desperate door to door salesman… what’s wrong with this guy? can’t he see what this reads like?) D.

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