He Said She Said Journalism Dissected

He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User by Jay Rosen. And his new podcast with Dave Winer, mostly about the AP fiasco, has been posted here. Worth a read and a listen.

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This is what Dave Winer planned to say. This is what he ended up saying:
Prompted by the WSJ article about blogs, Scoble,
Dave Winer interviews Jay Rosen about "curmudgeons, then on to rebooting journalism, Meet The Press,
Last week, Terry Gross interviewed William Ayers on Fresh Air on NPR - you can listen to the podcast here.

The physicist Jacques Distler blogged thusly in 2002:

The much-anticipated New York Times article on the Bogdanov scandal has appeared. Alas, it suffers from the usual journalistic conceit that a proper newspaper article must cover a âcontroversyâ. There must be two sides to the controversy, and the reporterâs job is to elicit quotes from both parties and present them side-by-side. Almost inevitably, this âbalancedâ approach sheds no light on the matter, and leaves the reader shaking his head, âThere they go againâ¦â