ARTICLE: ChiTrib public editor on blogs
Chicago Tribune
Aug. 17, 2006
Welcome to the world of blogs
Online or in print, good reporting will find an open window
By Timothy J. McNulty, Public Editor
Exceprt:
There is no substitute for an investigative reporter examining documents, a writer sitting through a trial or a correspondent witnessing events in Baghdad or Beirut. The work of people asking questions, seeing (and photographing) events, uncovering truth or fragments of a larger truth is what informs the public. But I suspect what readers are telling us is that the attraction of the online world is not only the immediacy of information, but their desire for interaction: to be able to comment and reflect on events, to explore others’ thoughts or to express their own frustrations and pleasure and anger. That desire has given rise to the blogging world.
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