Petty bureaucrats like Moos love to codify things, so that they can cite chapter and verse when telling people off. But if you’re running a grown-up media organization, please: follow Paton’s lead, and not Moos’s. Journalists will behave unethically, sometimes. When they do, they should be reprimanded or even fired. But basic common sense is always the best guide to whether a journalist has done something wrong. And when Julie Moos presumes to judge Jim Romenesko by the standards of a Moos-written rulebook, it’s right and proper that the wrath of the Twittersphere come down on her as a result.
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Jesus, stop the temper tantrum, Felix. Sorry your "KING" (note the quotes) got insulted but seriously how hard is it to use quotes or paraphrase?
This whole thing is about King Romeskeo getting asked about it and him deciding he was too good to put up with the insult of answering questions or following rules. Here's the thing, there are NO kings on the fricken Internet and if there are rules within a community, you fricken follow them. Don't like them? Fricken leave. Romeskemo, nor his followers, sure haven't done anything to increase their "royal" estimation by having a hissy fit over excessive copy pasta and quotes. Chill.
When I think of the true injustices done by real press organizations to real journalists who one might rank as kings?
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/6405
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2009/06/19/dan-froomkins-firing-leav_n_217968.html
Romeskow doesn't even rank.
#1 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Fri 11 Nov 2011 at 06:04 PM
Thoughts of Felix Salmon:
http://felixsalmon.tumblr.com/post/12611149248/heres-why-im-so-angry-at-julie-mooss
1.[Here’s why I’m so angry at Julie Moos’s unjustifiable attack on Jim Romenesko: the way that she’s so fucking certain that she’s right and he’s wrong, and the way that she hammers this home over and over again:]
2.[Jim Romenesko is a KING of the blogosphere. He’s the kind of person you should be looking to as an exemplar of best practices in the blogosphere.]
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/holding_aggregators_to_journal.php
[The vast majority of Romenesko’s readers never even stopped to think that the words they were reading might “belong” to Romenesko in some way — they were always clearly attributed to the journalist he was quoting.]
These thoughts do not meet journalistic standards because first of all if you have to curse you are not thinking clearly. Do you think that the youth of America should look to Jim as "an exemplar of best practices"?
Apparently you have not been following the news about international education, in NSW on ABC Australia, and on the PISA test in relation to Shanghai. We do not need any more mechanistic copying.
"[Jim's words] were always clearly attributed to the journalist he was quoting."
Factually wrong. That is why cursing and getting into an irrational frame of mind will violate journalistic standards. Distortions are certain to happen.
#2 Posted by Clayton Burns, CJR on Sat 12 Nov 2011 at 01:33 PM