{"id":1685,"date":"2003-09-05T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/the-welch-deal\/"},"modified":"2003-09-05T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:35:19","slug":"the-welch-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/the-welch-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welch deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tUnless you&#8217;re sharing your meals with Osama in a Pakistani cave, you&#8217;ve read Matt Welch&#8217;s deal <a title=\"Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2003\/5\/blog-welch.asp\">on blogs for CJR.<\/a> My favorite part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Are bloggers journalists? Will they soon replace newspapers? <\/p>\n<p>The best answer to those two questions is: those are two really dumb questions; enough hot air has been expended in their name already.<\/p>\n<p>A more productive, tangible line of inquiry is: Is journalism being produced by blogs, is it interesting, and how should journalists react to it? The answers, by my lights, are &#8220;yes,&#8221; &#8220;yes,&#8221; and &#8220;in many ways.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The concluding graf is good too, but I don&#8217;t want to spoil your cave-dwelling fun. <\/p>\n<p>I give Matt an &#8220;A&#8221; on this excellent composition.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;re sharing your meals with Osama in a Pakistani cave, you&#8217;ve read Matt Welch&#8217;s deal on blogs for CJR. My favorite part: Are bloggers journalists? Will they soon replace newspapers? The best answer to those two questions is: those are two really dumb questions; enough hot air has been expended in their name already. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/the-welch-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Welch deal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}