Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, is not a big fan of the blogosphere. He makes some good points, but leaves out the part of about how the aid and development blogosphere does approximately 1,000,000 times better at covering its area than the NYT.
UPDATE March 13: the Queen of Blog responds angrily to Keller’s personal attack on her.
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Arianna Huffington’s devastating retort to Keller’s column is worth reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-keller-accuses-me-of_b_834289.html
presumably the same holds true for other ‘specialisms’. what the NYT misses is development economics wider implications for all sorts of international stores / foreign policy analysis.
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