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July 7 2009

From my experience, 27 percent of the people who work in media (and I’m using the Mediaite definition of media, which is pretty much “anyone who gets paid for typing, talking or figuring out how to fire people who type or talk”) are journalists in the truest sense, out to enlighten the public for common good, altruistic believers in the fourth estate and its power to invoke change. The other 73 percent are pretending to be that 27 percent and really just trying to promote their own personal brand.


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Will Leitch, The Real Reason You Should Hate The Media (And That Includes Us)

What Leitch is blissfully and conveniently ignoring is that sites like Gawker and Mediaite wouldn’t be successful if only those in media cared about media.

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    blogging/reporting/typing:
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    Whether or not you agree with Carney on this one (I’m still mulling over my position on the matter), I think we can all...
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    I don’t fancy myself an expert...came late to the world of
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    Good anecdotal evidence from Elizabeth in response to Will and Soup’s thoughts… “From my experience, 27 percent of the...
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