As Pretty As A Song

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   "I didn’t begin as a reporter at my school paper (was rejected, actually) or an intern at a magazine. I began as a blogger. In 2003. Sources didn’t return the calls of bloggers in 2003. And so I developed a heavy reliance on, and a healthy attachment to, the ugly stepsister of reporting: research. Since I couldn’t depend on experts to tell me what they thought, I had to read what they’d written. And that had some drawbacks — there really is no substitute for talking to people — but also some advantages. The difference between reading a think tank paper and interviewing the author is the difference between learning what an expert thinks you should know and learning what you think you want to know. There are advantages to both. But I think traditional outlets have a tendency to overvalue the benefits of interviews and undervalue the benefits of document diving."

   Ezra Klein, explaining correctly why bloggers often provide better insight and analysis than traditional reporters (via jeffmiller)

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