The Atlantic Wire runs a weekly feature called
"What I Read", where an important person gets the chance to wow us with his or her daily media routine. Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of The Social Network, and creator of The West Wing and SportsNight, took his turn today. I've always enjoyed his ear for dialogue; now I applaud these comments about Web-based journalism:
The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance. I can't really get on board with the demonization of credentials with phrases like "the media elite" (just like doctors, airline pilots and presidents, I prefer reporters and commentators to be elite) and the glamorization of inexperience with phrases like "citizen journalist."
And this little gem reminds me of the wing-nut commentary on MLive, WOODTV.com, and WZZM13.com:
From time to time I'll read some of the comments under stories on it to get a sense of what it must be like at a Klan meeting.
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