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:: Friday, April 25, 2003 ::

Thou shalt not blog
Denis Horgan, a travel writer for The Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, has been told by his editor to stop blogging. Quoth the editor: "Denis Horgan's entire professional profile is a result of his attachment to The Hartford Courant, yet he has unilaterally created for himself a parallel journalistic universe where he'll do commentary on the institutions that the paper has to cover without any editing oversight by the Courant. That makes the paper vulnerable." Horgan "disagree[s] deeply" with that editorial decision, but says he has no choice but to suspend his blogging. (Thanks to Bene Diction for the link to this story.)

This could set a bad precent for journalist-bloggers. I'm hopeful that most newspaper editors aren't as clueless as the guy at the Courant.

I like what Dan Gillmor has to say about this one: "The Tribune Co., which owns the Courant, should think about the messages it's sending, and not just the sheer arrogance of telling staffers that their days and nights are totally owned by the employer. (I wonder if the state of Connecticut's labor laws allow this.) The paper is also telling the world that it's mired in the past. That may be the more dangerous message."

Maybe Horgan should check this out.

:: Andrew 08:38 + ::
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