Brij’s One More Idea

Jarvis on LA Times wikitorials experiment -

The truth is that an editorial is just another blog post written by one person witih one viewpoint. Here’s a case where you can’t argue that it makes a difference having a journalism degree and a newsroom. Editorialists and columnists get to read the same stuff we do and they put on their pants and opinions just the way we do. So why should they have rights to the mountaintop? Who died and made them Moses? Let the people speak.

Newspapers are struggling to understand new media tools. They need to experiment and resist the temptation to find clear answers.