Hugh Hewitt reports this from the Sacramento Bee
Weintraub's blog now goes to the editorial page editor or his deputy before it's posted on sacbee.com.
Apparently Wientraub ran afoul of the State Assembly's Latino Caucus and he's been made to get approval for all his future posts. And there is no one actually assigned to approve web content, so who know how timely future posts will be? How utterly clueless.
Question: How long is it going to be before working journalists get tired of the Old School newspaper structure and start real, professional, online newspapers, 24/7?
Yes, I think one of the interesting implications that can be drawn from the muzzling of Dan Weintraub is the tenuous, uneasy relationship between bloggers and old-media newspapers.
After all, why bother with an editor when you can immediately post something exactly how you want it without review from some politically sensitive desk monkey.
Of course, the age old problem with the news media is the need to secure a stable source of funding. From a economic point of view, Weintraub's insider blog only makes sense if it brings more traffic to the paper, whether in the form of subscriptions or advertisments.
Time is, however, on the side of the bloggers -- and the democratization of the media will continue to undermine the establishment press.
Posted by: Spooky at September 22, 2003 09:36 AMI was so PO'd by the muzzling that I misread the bunch responsible -- I hadn't realized these were actual elected officials. Makes it even worse.
I hated the Bee for decades until I discovered Dan's blog through reading Justene. Guess I can go back to hating them again.
<I walk away grumbling under my breath>
Posted by: McGehee at September 22, 2003 09:52 AM