If I had a hammerSunday, March 25, 2007 by Dave Winer. Ian Betteridge thinks my view of journalism is "frankly, nonsense," comparing journalism to carpentry. "This is as silly as saying that carpenters are middlemen for wood merchants," he says.
I suggest a visit inside the sausage factory. Ask a reporter what dumbing down means, and how they feel about the headlines that have appeared over their writing. Charles Hope: "Who can believe any breathless hagiography about journalists?" |