Comments on: Newspaper reporters need to get over the snobbery http://www.igreenbaum.com/2008/04/newspaper-reporters-need-to-get-over-the-snobbery/ Where the real world and real people use social media. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:59:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Melody http://www.igreenbaum.com/2008/04/newspaper-reporters-need-to-get-over-the-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Melody Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:32:53 +0000 http://www.igreenbaum.com/?p=32#comment-44 It is interesting that often times bloggers are denied press credientials, but are still able to break news (Re: Huffington Post and Obama's comments). On a side note: Readers find blogs appealling because they offer a personal view of events and the writers bias is openly admitted and accepted by the reader, I wonder if that is the source of the snobbery? People don't want you to have an opinion and press credientials... but, as we all hear in our beginning j-classes it is impossible to be unbiased because your subconcious mind only registers events/actions/words that appeal to your biases. Just my 2-cents. It is interesting that often times bloggers are denied press credientials, but are still able to break news (Re: Huffington Post and Obama’s comments).

On a side note: Readers find blogs appealling because they offer a personal view of events and the writers bias is openly admitted and accepted by the reader, I wonder if that is the source of the snobbery? People don’t want you to have an opinion and press credientials… but, as we all hear in our beginning j-classes it is impossible to be unbiased because your subconcious mind only registers events/actions/words that appeal to your biases. Just my 2-cents.

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