"WHAT'S THIS MEDIA WORLD COMING TO?"
"Cable & bloggers talking about education? That's supposed to be reserved for me and the "chosen few"! Don't you think? Cheers." - Dr. D.
"The Brookings Institute Spars with Edu-Blogger
The Brookings Institute raised the ire of education blogger and journalist Alexander Russo, about a report released and presented this week offering 'creative solutions to improve education reporting and to promote quality public discourse.'"
Russo pulled the first punch:
"Perhaps it's the fact that, while I admire Russ Whitehurst and EJ Dionne greatly, I don't think of either of them as particularly expert on the topic of education journalism. These are not folks who've thought long and hard about this issue, or whose knowledge is particularly deep.
Or maybe it's that the panelists they've gathered for the event include two esteemed former journalists (Richard Colvin and Dale Mezzacappa) whom I would describe as traditional if not downright reactionary in their views on new media such as blogs, plus a think tank guy (Andy Rotherham) who until recently didn't even allow reader comments on his blog. (Still no response, by the way.)Most problematic of all, there's no one currently in a newsroom involved on the panel, nor anyone with a strong background in new media."