The Cellar - View Single Post - Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

Undertoad · 01-08-2009, 08:23 AM

It's an NBC affiliate reporting that Joe's going overseas... to report for Pajamas Media, not any TV outlet.

I'm 100% for citizen journalism because professional journalism is in a shambles, but this is something else entirely. Not sure what. Joe can give us some information, but he's no Michael Totten or Mike Yon, who are really smart guys with some decent background to understand where they are and what's going on. Those are citizen journalists with better cred than professional journalists. If I want a report on Gazan plumbing Joe might be of interest, otherwise he's just some guy.

01-08-2009, 08:23 AM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's an NBC affiliate reporting that Joe's going overseas... to report for Pajamas Media, not any TV outlet. I'm 100% for citizen journalism because professional journalism is in a shambles, but this is something else entirely. Not sure what. Joe can give us some information, but he's no Michael Totten or Mike Yon, who are really smart guys with some decent background to understand where they are and what's going on. Those are citizen journalists with better cred than professional journalists. If I want a report on Gazan plumbing Joe might be of interest, otherwise he's just some guy.