Daily Kos: The Cult of the Professional
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 17:38 via del.icio.us/martinstabe
Blogger Markos Moulitsas points out that Andrew Keen wrongly claimed in The Cult of the Amateur that he has no "professional training". The journalism degree apparently doesn't count. Read More...
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1. yelvington.com | Steve Ye&hellip | 1 November 2007 at 1518
… and then points out that he (Kos) has a degree in journalism (as well as several others), served as editor of his college newspaper, freelanced several years for the Chicago Tribune and has written for the Guardian. (Thanks toMartin Stabe.) Keen is not a journalist but rather a professional self-promoter. Nevertheless, his straw-man dismissal of blogging is a position still held by too many in journalism. Across the pond in the UK, there’s
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