journalism
Plumber’s crack out of line for elite
I’m coming out. Loud and proud. My people have been hiding in the shadows for too long, silent, anonymous, cowering from decades of persecution and biggotry. Well I will not hide anymore. I will not stay silent. My name is Jason Whittaker, and I am an elite.
A great interviewer, or human
About 45 million Americans tuned in for the first of a series of interviews between British TV personality David Frost and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Watching Ron Howard’s thrilling film Frost/Nixon, an adaption of Peter Morgan’s play, it’s not hard to see why. Frost/Nixon is a great piece of journalistic drama, built as an intellectual battle to the death, yet ironically focused on the fact the prosecutor was not a journalist. I found some interesting parallels and morals.
The importance of ideas
“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.” Those are the words of pioneering American newsman Edward R. Murrow. I love the quote, and his many others like it. It may sound a particularly high-minded agenda for what will inevitably be another inconsequential blog-of-consciousness. But I reckon it’s a good place to start.
Who am I? A journo, that’s who
I’m a journalist. And if that’s as far as you read, the characterisation sits just fine with me. Broadly curious, deeply engaged; a writer, a reader, a listener, a restless thinker, a zealous debater. A media junkie for whom interventions have failed, as much an occupational hazard as it is an obsessive hobby. A life-long devotee of dead tree media not afraid to get his fingers ink-stained for a great broadsheet read, but excited by the opportunities of digital convergence and a paperless media future (you can be both).
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