Plumbers, Foreign Correspondents and the New York Times
Lost in the snickering that Pajamas Media is sending Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher to Gaza as its “War Correspondent” is the fact that conservative PJTV.com is sending Wurzelbacher to Gaza as its War Correspondent.
Serious. Think about that for a moment. As The Atlantic’s Michael Hirschorn speculates about the end of a debt-ridden New York Times, news continues that the mainstream media is cutting jobs, closing bureaus and generally trying to right their sinking ships, a blog network is sending people overseas to gather stories.
So while we doubt seasoned foreign correspondents are trembling in their boots that they’ll be out scooped, the anxiety continues with the penny counters upstairs as the blogosphere shows new and different ways to operate news (or “news”) organizations.
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. On Twitter, he's @bmunch.
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