I forgot to tell you: I think I will start to write more political humor, like we did that time awhile back. I realize now this is my latest:
A Blogger's 1st Interview
An email interview with one of the world’s most outspoken advocates for the new media’s Citizen Journallst bloggers:
City University of New York’s Media Professor Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com blog fame – and featured tonight on the PBS television’s FRONTLINE documentary series on media manipulation, new media and the future of the press, a program called “NEWS WARS”
Interview by: summer, Citizen Journalist Blogger (and Florida teacher) and author of a recent editorial: “How to Lose Credibility on Your Blog, the Huffington Post Way” posted on her blog, summer2007.net
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THE INTERVIEW:
Dear Professor Jeff Jarvis:
Not long ago I posted a link on your blog, and I notice you did leave it up, but you did not respond to it in any way. The link was to an editorial I wrote about media manipulation at the Huffington Post. I was hoping that as you are at CUNY, you might comment on it, enlighten me, and/or condemn what they did as described in my editorial by me and others…The essay I wrote is linked to your blog below the Romney tv commercial.
I now see from your "Disclosures" page that you are a partner in a news startup with "Huffington Post's Ken Lere."
Does that mean that anything you might say with respect to Huffington Post would be a conflict of interest, and therefore you would never comment on the editorial I wrote?
,,,, I genuinely want to know: …who is watching out for us here on the ground? (Other than Bill O'Reilly who says he "watches out for us.") Is there anyone else? …
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From: Jeff Jarvis
Date: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 6:19 am
To: summer
Re: re quick question
I get many comments and emails and read most but do not recall seeing yours and in any case I do not respond to every comment, so you should read nothing into that.
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EDITOR'S NOTE to above interview: Professor Jeff Jarvis is available for interviews provided the Citizen Journalist does not ask questions about media manipulation at any of the companies paying him for consulting work --
Currently, this includes: Advance Publications, my former employer; Advance owns Conde Nast, Newhouse Newspapers, Parade, American City Business Journals, Bright House cable, and Advance Internet, where he used to work. Until December 2006, he was consulting regularly for The New York Times Company at its About.com subsidiary. He has consulted for and spoken for groups at The Guardian, VH1, Hearst, The Week, Hill & Knowlton, Burda, Edelman, Publicis/Denou, the BBC, and at various conferences. He is also a partner in Daylife, a news startup, whose investors include The New York Times Company, Craig Newmark, Dave Winer, Michael Arrington, Huffington Post’s Ken Lerer, and others. I have been asked to join the advisory boards of Network2.net, Rayv, Brightcove, Dawntreader, Consenda, and Technorati; advisory boards bring varying amounts of options or payments.
(In his spare time, he is a professor at CUNY.)