http://keithwj.vox.com/library/posts/tags/rant/page/1/ secret places to talk en Vox Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0500 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rant http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/take-a-blogger-to-lunch.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(keithwj) http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/take-a-blogger-to-lunch.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/take-a-blogger-to-lunch.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0500 <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2251d19978e1d00d41414802b685e" at:format="small" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-small photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d41414802b685e.html"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d41414802b685e-120pi" alt="Poynter" title="Poynter" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d41414802b685e.html" title="Poynter">Poynter</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <div><br />Poynter.org, <em>the</em> website for journalists, published my rant, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=115376">&#39;Take a Blogger to Lunch&#39;</a> last week, and it has legs. I put more of myself out there than ever before, but our industry really needs people to shout from the roof tops that the future is nothing to fear.<br /><br />I was very, very tired of the panic sweeping The Washington Post and other newsrooms. The article is a challenge to those of us in the mainstream media to do what we are trained to do - get out and mix it up with the people. We have gotten very comfortable &#39;reporting&#39; on our communities, but we have forgotten that we are part of those communities as well.<br /><br />We have got to do better if we are going to survive.<br /></div> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/take-a-blogger-to-lunch.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d19978e1d00cd970cf51d4cd5?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> blogger rant journalism washingtonpost poynter