aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, March 20, 2006

Arianna regrets

I was critical, then almost missed this from Arianna from Saturday:

I now realize that I made a big mistake in posting a blog without clearly identifying that the material in it didn’t originate as a blog post but was pieced together from previous interviews.

I’m sorry I didn’t see this earlier. But I see it now and here is what I’m going to do about it:

1. Going forward, any time the HuffPost uses repurposed material we will identify it as such and source where it originally appeared and link to it. (Thank you Jeff Jarvis)

2. Even though the point of providing George Clooney a sample blog was to show how it’s done and encourage him to join the blogosphere, I will curb my enthusiasm and not do this in the future.

3. When I read something or hear something in an interview or have something said to me in person that I think is really important and should have as wide an audience as possible, I will put it in my own blog, becoming Boswell to all the Dr. Johnsons out there just as I did once with Arthur Schlesinger.

I wondered would this dust-up make it to the Times. It did, today. By the way, I don’t think it should have.

Remember the Excellence in Journalism report finding that bloggers don’t do much original reporting? I said something along the lines of, what bloggers do “is a good and important contribution to the media landscape.” And also that Big Media would do well to do more BIG REPORTING and let go of their market-driven emphasis on piddly fluff.

Via Romenesko.