Comments on: “I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs.” http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/ a place to reveal | a place to hide Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Velle http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16894 Velle Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:05:39 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16894 Web 2.0... her apparent disdain of it makes me wonder if she's secretly afraid she and her kind would one day be written out of a job. Bloggers have already made it to the White House press corps. I'm already seeing newspapers in Australia scrambling to get on the online bandwagon, blogs and all. Sor Fern has to be careful she doesn't start to write herself out of a job. She might be tasked to head a news blog one day. Web 2.0… her apparent disdain of it makes me wonder if she’s secretly afraid she and her kind would one day be written out of a job.

Bloggers have already made it to the White House press corps. I’m already seeing newspapers in Australia scrambling to get on the online bandwagon, blogs and all. Sor Fern has to be careful she doesn’t start to write herself out of a job. She might be tasked to head a news blog one day.

]]> By: John Harper http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16878 John Harper Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:41:52 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16878 A perfect illustration of how journalists are not always careful in reporting science. There is a report here of a disagreement with press coverage at the British Association Science festival in York today. check out this Url on the BBC news site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6988088.stm A perfect illustration of how journalists are not always careful in reporting science. There is a report here of a disagreement with press coverage at the British Association Science festival in York today. check out this Url on the BBC news site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6988088.stm

]]> By: John Harper http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16877 John Harper Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:24:49 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16877 Acroamatic asked whether I had ever been at RAF Changi, yes when I was 10 years old we lived at Lloyd Leas for a few months in 1957 and then moved onto the main camp and lived at Wittering Road until summer of 1958 then moved over to RAF Tengah until the summer of 1959. We spent two and a quarter glorious years in Singapore and it is like a second spritual home for me. Depending on price of flights I am hoping to visit again in November, now that I am a pensioner I have to watch the pennies carefully. Acroamatic asked whether I had ever been at RAF Changi, yes when I was 10 years old we lived at Lloyd Leas for a few months in 1957 and then moved onto the main camp and lived at Wittering Road until summer of 1958 then moved over to RAF Tengah until the summer of 1959. We spent two and a quarter glorious years in Singapore and it is like a second spritual home for me. Depending on price of flights I am hoping to visit again in November, now that I am a pensioner I have to watch the pennies carefully.

]]> By: Pollock http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16876 Pollock Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:00:39 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16876 "However, I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor " Yes you are 100% right that's why I think, the chappies in the BP are threading so carefully. Where angels fear to thread or is it tread > This couldn't have been done without the green light from those who hide behind those red doors. “However, I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor ”

Yes you are 100% right that’s why I think, the chappies in the BP are threading so carefully.

Where angels fear to thread or is it tread >

This couldn’t have been done without the green light from those who hide behind those red doors.

]]> By: acroamatic http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16874 acroamatic Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:35:26 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16874 Hmmmm... Patricea, on further thought: Even if the editor wanted to stir up controversy, surely he/she would have known that the discussion would take place in the blogosphere. And you are right, there are so many people who are in the public sphere, who are opinion-leaders, who are journalists that also blog. She's attempted to discredit all these people in one fell swoop. Hmmmm… Patricea, on further thought: Even if the editor wanted to stir up controversy, surely he/she would have known that the discussion would take place in the blogosphere.

And you are right, there are so many people who are in the public sphere, who are opinion-leaders, who are journalists that also blog. She’s attempted to discredit all these people in one fell swoop.

]]> By: SGDaily http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16873 SGDaily Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:35:11 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16873 Hi Deadpoet, You have been featured in The Singapore Daily. Thank you for your support! The Singapore Daily Team singaporedaily.wordpress.com Hi Deadpoet,

You have been featured in The Singapore Daily. Thank you for your support!

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]]> By: Daily SG: 10 Sep 2007 « The Singapore Daily http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16872 Daily SG: 10 Sep 2007 « The Singapore Daily Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:09:03 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16872 [...] Librarian: “I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs” - Deadpoet’s Cave: “I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs.” - the(new)mediaslut: She who will not read blogs vs her editor who does - Coffee Shop Talk: Elitist [...] [...] Librarian: “I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs” – Deadpoet’s Cave: “I HAVE never, nor will I ever, read blogs.” – the(new)mediaslut: She who will not read blogs vs her editor who does – Coffee Shop Talk: Elitist [...]

]]> By: acroamatic http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16870 acroamatic Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:30:46 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16870 [quote comment="16862"]I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor to stir up some form of 'controversy' or argument among readers, and the writer (in my opinion, most of those writing the articles in ST/Today etc are not journalists because they do not follow journalism rules) has to comply.[/quote] You may indeed be right. Heh, yes, I try to remember to call them reporters. :P [quote comment="16862"]I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor to stir up some form of ‘controversy’ or argument among readers, and the writer (in my opinion, most of those writing the articles in ST/Today etc are not journalists because they do not follow journalism rules) has to comply.[/quote]

You may indeed be right.

Heh, yes, I try to remember to call them reporters. :P

]]> By: monkey http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16863 monkey Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:55:33 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16863 well this monkey has already started typing. :P obviously this journalist never attend kristie lu stout's talk :P well this monkey has already started typing. :P obviously this journalist never attend kristie lu stout’s talk :P

]]> By: Patricea http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-16862 Patricea Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:33:44 +0000 http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/09/i-have-never-nor-will-i-ever-read-blogs/#comment-16862 I took this module titled 'Critical Discourse Analysis' in university, teaching us how to objectively dissect and analyse information presented by any media. Clearly Ong's article has many flaws, which has been pointed out by yourself and other people. However, I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor to stir up some form of 'controversy' or argument among readers, and the writer (in my opinion, most of those writing the articles in ST/Today etc are not journalists because they do not follow journalism rules) has to comply. She has also clearly overlooked the fact that many published writers of books, magazines and articles - whether scientific, fiction or non-fiction - are bloggers themselves. Their blogs allow them to reach out to their readers and gather feedback, as well as more ideas for future writing. Overall, she has done nothing to reduce my distaste and distrust of journalism standards in the local media (what standards!?!) as well as the qualification and capacity of the local newspapers' writers. I took this module titled ‘Critical Discourse Analysis’ in university, teaching us how to objectively dissect and analyse information presented by any media.

Clearly Ong’s article has many flaws, which has been pointed out by yourself and other people.

However, I doubt the angle of the article was entirely her idea: it could have been suggested/dictated by the desk editor to stir up some form of ‘controversy’ or argument among readers, and the writer (in my opinion, most of those writing the articles in ST/Today etc are not journalists because they do not follow journalism rules) has to comply.

She has also clearly overlooked the fact that many published writers of books, magazines and articles – whether scientific, fiction or non-fiction – are bloggers themselves. Their blogs allow them to reach out to their readers and gather feedback, as well as more ideas for future writing.

Overall, she has done nothing to reduce my distaste and distrust of journalism standards in the local media (what standards!?!) as well as the qualification and capacity of the local newspapers’ writers.

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