DetNews on Michigan Blogs
The Detroit News profiles some local blogs (we were interviewed for this piece, but they refused to quote us unless we were willing to have our name printed.)
The Detroit News profiles some local blogs (we were interviewed for this piece, but they refused to quote us unless we were willing to have our name printed.)
Those devils!
You were robbed.
posted by David Boyle on August 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pmBy the way, your title could/should have been “DetNews Underrates Ann Arbor Is Overrated”. Or “Underquotes”. Or something.
posted by David Boyle on August 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pmAt least they asked! :-p
/still bitter about being blog-outed by the AAObserver a million years ago
posted by srah on August 24th, 2006 at 4:32 pmMotorCityRocks hasn’t been useful/relevant/updated/read for over a year, unfortunately. It used to be a central node.
Someone start a new SE Michigan music blog. We need it.
posted by Anonymous on August 24th, 2006 at 4:47 pmHow could they have missed me? My blog is the most widely read among about a dozen of my friends!
posted by Dave on August 25th, 2006 at 6:54 pmIt happens to the best of us—I spent an hour speaking to a local reporter about community blogging in Reno and then the interview was quashed by the chief editor. Anonymity has its price!
posted by myrna the minx on August 29th, 2006 at 1:28 pmTraditional media people are in a very privileged position. They can write without (for the most part) fearing for their jobs, so they don’t understand why anyone would want to be anonymous. The result of policies like the Detroit News’ is a narrowing of which views gain access to mainstream media.
If a blogger faces threats or intimidation as a result of his or her blog, the response is, “Well, maybe you shouldn’t be putting your name out on the Internet like that.” If the same thing happens to a reporter, it’s a threat to our free press.
This is definitely not the first time this has happened to me. I’m not going to give any more interviews unless the reporter has run the anonymity thing by his/her editor first.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on August 29th, 2006 at 1:48 pmAs a reporter in the traditional media I can tell you that the whole Jayson Blair affair and the general break down in trusting of the mainstream media is the reason why the anonymous source is going away. In fact we have to use named sources for fear of a lawsuit. I would guess that most reporters are comfortable and understanding of the desire to keep people’s names out of the story if possible; however the legal people that are ultimately responsible for our paychecks have different thoughts.
posted by anon on August 29th, 2006 at 3:02 pmI may have been a little hard on reporters (as opposed to publishers/owners), and I know that the Judith Miller anonymous-source thing has made everyone a little nervous.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on August 29th, 2006 at 5:30 pmYou’re Judith Miller?
–Now I understand everything!!!
posted by David Boyle on August 29th, 2006 at 8:28 pmwell, she does hail from Ann Arbor.
posted by aoeaoe on August 31st, 2006 at 11:27 pm