Blogging Responsibility
Lisa on Jun 21st 2010
I think that the blog article that the author wrote was irresponsible. Any one who has ever taken a journalism class in their lives knows that you need to have yoru facts straight and check your sources. Why he even decided to focus on the man’s apartment is beyond me. If the man was this awesome jazz musician, why not focus on that? Instead, he chose to focus on the man’s messy room. How trivial. How he could have written the article without talking to the musician’s family is also beyond me; it sounds like it was rushed a carelessly done.
If the blog had been posted on TMZ or Perez Hilton, okay, maybe your journalistic integrity won’t be held to such a high standard. However, when you’re writing for the New York Times, even if it is a blog, you’re expected to carry over those same skills.
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6 Responses to “Blogging Responsibility”
Agreed 100% !!!! This guy didn’t use his head when reporting this to his blog post. He just wanted quick fame, it’s easy to see. The Times is so snarky and so outright damn proud of what they do that they should leave no margin for error if they want to brag as hard as they do. Jesus, the industry is crapola if you ask me.
The reporter should have focused on the jazz musician’s accomplishments, not his faults in living in a 12 by 12 apartment. WHO CARES PEOPLE?!?!?!?!
I’m not fully up on the story and facts, but it seems to me that maybe he was trying to get an angle about the jazz musician’s life that had not previously been revealed. That’s why he went for the apartment, because there’s probably already a hundred stories done about his life in much more detail.
Otherwise, I agree with you. It was rushed and careless, and you said it right, if it were a gossip-site it wouldn’t have mattered so much. But if the Times wants to be standard-setting in the industry, it needs to live up to it’s own creations.
I agree with your point but for the purpose of a blog, a perspective of the jazz’s singers apartment is artistic and creative and allows the journalist to be more opinionated, in a way.
Although yes, there should be a certain standard considering it IS a blog for the New York Times, a respectable paper in most people’s eyes.
I agree wholeheartedly that an article cannot depend on one source alone. The landlord interviews and the description of the artist’s apartment were creative (and very indicative to the Times’ style) but you cannot write an article based on creativity alone. You will always need a variety of sources. Standards like these are even less flexible (or ought to be) when dealing with the recently deceased.
I agree that the blog was done carelessly. It seems as though the writer was looking for a new angle and the apartment would set up something good for him to write about. I think it was a good idea but the process of getting the right to walk into the jazz musicians apartment was not taken into consideration. I feel that the musicians family and friends have a right to be upset about the situation because that is someone’s private life that the journalist was stepping into and more contacts should have been involved before posting this blog.
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