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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

'Subjective' blogging versus 'objective' journalism

How about this for journalistic snobbery? In a New York Times review of Rebecca Traister's book Big Girls Don't Cry: The election that changed everything for American women comes this observation:

A denizen of the blogosphere, she writes with colour, emotion and opinion for an online audience that does not demand the objectivity that traditional journalists regard as the sine qua non of their work.

The reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, goes on to assert that Traister "adroitly juggles a galaxy of new - and old - media sources" to advance her "unapologetically subjective opinion".

The message? Mainstream journalism is objective while blogging is subjective. And newsprint readers demand objectivity while online readers are happy to do without it.

Source: New York Times

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