Look Out “Outlook”
They aren’t exactly fighting words, but Susan Glasser, the newly-named editor in charge of The Washington Post’s Sunday “Outlook” section has taken a shot across the bow of the blogosphere. In the article announcing her promotion today, Glasser provided a glimpse of what she’s going to try and bring to the weekly commentary section:
Having been through a few of these discussions before, I know her assertion that “reasoned commentary and analysis” is lacking on the Web is certain to draw some fire. I tend to agree with Glasser in this respect: there is a tremendous amount of loud and unreasonable chatter on the Internet, particularly in the blogosphere. But it is a powerful tool that isn’t going away and offers a lot the MSM can learn from. If Glasser and The Post can do their part to help bridge these two worlds, then more power to her.
Knowing that not everyone will share her opinion (or mine), Public Eye asked some bloggers to weigh in on Glasser’s comments.
“Outlook is one of the great pieces of real estate in the Sunday Washington Post, with a real storied tradition of helping shape the Washington conversation. … What I would hope to do is build on that and think of lots of exciting and interesting ways to update it for an Internet era when opinions and controversy have become the currency but reasoned commentary and analysis are sometimes missing from that new digital equation."
Having been through a few of these discussions before, I know her assertion that “reasoned commentary and analysis” is lacking on the Web is certain to draw some fire. I tend to agree with Glasser in this respect: there is a tremendous amount of loud and unreasonable chatter on the Internet, particularly in the blogosphere. But it is a powerful tool that isn’t going away and offers a lot the MSM can learn from. If Glasser and The Post can do their part to help bridge these two worlds, then more power to her.
Knowing that not everyone will share her opinion (or mine), Public Eye asked some bloggers to weigh in on Glasser’s comments.
