Plus ça change…

I don’t normally read David de Ugarte, but this is strange:

The weird thing is that he doesn’t link to evidence, nor does he seek to provide it in any other fashion, nor does there seem to be any evidence elsewhere for what he’s saying–all I could find was that “El colegio de médicos de Bizkaia ha creado una web para luchar contra el intrusismo profesional“, which is rather different. In fact, my impression was that this was not so much about journalism as about an urgent desire on his part to promote some new subscription-based news site. If I weren’t such a generous-hearted and loving person, I’d be tempted to comment: “New journalism, my ar*e”.

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Comments

1. RK sez:
   14 September 2004 at 7:35 PM

   You’re right, in this case he is inventing “old media=bad” to market his “new media=good” product

2. ML sez:
   21 September 2004 at 8:55 PM

   Inded you’re still not reading further than headlines read the article

3. ML sez:
   21 September 2004 at 8:58 PM

   By the other hand, as far as I know, Ugarte has no subscription based news site, the one his collegues own (ciberpunk.net) its free and no registration its required.

4. Trevor sez:
   21 September 2004 at 10:16 PM

   @ML1: Rubbish. He produces absolutely no evidence for his claim that journalism unions are conducting a campaign to root out those who make themselves out to be journalists. That’s lazy, Aunt Sally writing. @ML2: It says “Subscribe”, but otherwise you’re correct.

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