AND, WHO IS A "SPINNER"? Excerpt -- Is Mr. Greenwald a “blogger,” as a Times headline referred to him recently? That headline was atop a profile that did not use the word journalist to describe the columnist for The Guardian United States, the New York-based Web site associated with the British newspaper. At the time, I wrote (on Twitter) that I found the headline dismissive. There’s nothing wrong with being a blogger, of course – I am one myself. But when the media establishment uses the term, it somehow seems to say, “You’re not quite one of us.” (And that might be just fine with Mr. Greenwald, who has written disparagingly of some media people, whom he calls “courtiers of power.”) Bruce Headlam, who edits media coverage in The Times and who was an important voice in deciding that a correction was in order on the reference to Ms. O’Brien, has considered the subject. “I don’t consider ‘blogger’ an insult and I don’t consider ‘activist’ to be an insult, either,” he said. But he Acknowledges that “I might be in the minority” on those points. He also noted, rightly, that these matters have taken on more significance in the current climate, and could be crucial for Mr. Greenwald. (Under fire, the Obama administration has recently said that it won’t pursue journalists for doing their jobs.)
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:32:24 +0000
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