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Nora Ephron, on Zebras … Lions … Coyotes … and Vultures

The essayist and screenwriter, in an interview with New York magazine, comments on mainstream journalism versus the blogosphere.

August 9, 2006

Nora Ephron, in an interview with New York magazine, commenting on mainstream journalism versus the blogosphere:

” … I think everyone feels a little bit beleaguered by the blogosphere, because it’s fundamentally such a parasitic thing. The New York Times just reminds me of some poor dead zebra on the veld that the lions are eating and then the coyotes are eating and then the vultures are sitting on the trees are waiting to eat.”

Steve Lovelady was editor of CJR Daily.