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Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Special to Press Think: Interview with Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis started Entertainment Weekly. Now he's a born again journalist who got religion about the Web. So how has his press thinking evolved?
I never tell the priests of high media what they should do. They get grouchy if you try that. In fact, one of them just said so this week, Jack Shafer in Slate: The journalistic priesthood abhors advice.
What a grouch..

· Press Think [via Tim Porter]

Correspondents Call White House Press Briefings “Useless”
You watch the daily White House press briefing and think you’re getting the scoop of the day? Not so, say veteran correspondents. The news, if any should happen, takes place in the morning “gaggle,” when the cameras are off.
· The whole briefing is Hollywood [Washingtonian ]
· I'm a political junkie. I eat, sleep and think news and public policy and current affairs [ Pittsburghlive]