{"id":339,"date":"2009-03-13T00:35:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-03-13T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:50:44","slug":"david-simon-breaks-it-down-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/david-simon-breaks-it-down-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"David Simon breaks it down for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/features\/stories\/future_of_journalism\/\">LOT<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chijournalismtownhall.com\/\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachwoodreporter.com\/people_places_things\/the_chicago_journalism_town_ha.php#more\">ink<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chicagotribune.com\/news_columnists_ezorn\/2009\/02\/rescuing-print-journalism-does-cable-tv-have-the-right-idea.html#comments\">stained<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chijournalismtownhall.com\/?p=307\">handwringing<\/a> over the crisis in journalism of late. Some of it is great; some of it is, IMHO, a bit of self-interested windbaggery &#8212; on the part of both the old fogies longing for the good ol&#8217; City News Bureau days and the young webheads jacked by the pipe dream (sorry) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chicagoreader.com\/news-bites\/2009\/02\/23\/how-much-new-reporter\/\">$2 million newsroom<\/a>.*<\/p>\n<p>Self-interest is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=197\">barb I once lobbed<\/a>, halfheartedly, at David Simon. But I would never argue that on this topic he hasn&#8217;t earned the right to ponitificate. And the other day\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/27\/AR2009022703591_pf.html\">he did so in fine form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t understand why old-school journalists keep plantively wondering, &#8220;But who&#8217;s gonna cover the water board hearing?&#8221; this will go a long way toward explaining. And he does it in time-honored style &#8212; by showing, with a story, not telling, with a tirade.<\/p>\n<p>*And you know &#8212; eh. I&#8217;m not going to say which I might think is which. Because I don&#8217;t think journalism can be saved by endless blog posts about who&#8217;s right and who&#8217;s an asshole. And because I fall &#8212; \u00a0by both birthdate and temperament, not to mention clue-havingness &#8212; smack in the middle of the spectrum and my opinion changes with the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a LOT of ink&#8211;stained handwringing over the crisis in journalism of late. Some of it is great; some of it is, IMHO, a bit of self-interested windbaggery &#8212; on the part of both the old fogies longing for the good ol&#8217; City News Bureau days and the young webheads jacked by the pipe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/david-simon-breaks-it-down-for-you\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}