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    If you look back, Matt Drudge famously broke the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal out of his bedroom in LA over 10 years ago, so there's a lot of precedent for this ... Just because they're blogs or online or have celebrity gossip in them doesn't mean some of the people who run them don't have incredibly good sources. This absolute black and white separation between silly gossip and hard news doesn't really make sense. There's always been intermingling of the two. Full Article at The Age
    If you look back, Matt Drudge famously broke the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal out of his bedroom in LA over 10 years ago, so there's a lot of precedent for this ... Just because they're blogs or online or have celebrity gossip in them doesn't mean some of the people who run them don't have incredibly good sources. This absolute black and white separation between silly gossip and hard news doesn't really make sense. There's always been intermingling of the two.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
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Out with the old, in with the news
  1. And you have to reconcile those two roles in your mind. It's not play-acting - it has to be genuine - but it's also a performance you prepare for.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  2. I think a lot of news services provide what has always been the norm ... But that doesn't mean that's the right way or the only way.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  3. We're interested in showing why we need to care or know about a story, even though on the surface it might seem boring. We're trying to find the interesting in it.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  4. It's a product of cost ... It's driven by the financial reality.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  5. The theatre of it is something you can't overlook
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  6. And they want the immediacy of accessing news on the net.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  7. And we'll go, here's the big story of the day - why is it a big story?
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  8. Overwhelmingly, they get their news online and through Twitter ... They will spend 30 hours a week online, trawling the news sites.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago
  9. These days people can participate online about how they think and feel about the news. It is a conversation these days and I think you have to go with that. Everything evolves.
    SOURCE: The Age 3 weeks ago

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