In the Arena

Hail and Farewell

Jonathan Cohn’s blog, The Treatment, has been–along with Ezra Klein’s blog and Karen Tumulty’s work here (I’m still pissed at her for leaving)–an absolutely essential source of information about health care reform. Now Cohn is closing down shop. He’ll remain at the New Republic, writing about health and other topics–and I”ll be interested in reading anything he has to say about…anything. But this is a moment to be noted and a body of work to be praised. Thanks, Jon, for illuminating a very difficult subject. Truly, journalism at its best.

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  • deconstructiva

    Joe, thanks for this. While it sounds like Cohn’s work is “done” there (it really isn’t – new system has to be worked out), whither here? Strictly IMHO, are too many “pro” journalists seeing blogging as separate from dead-tree / mag reporting (more print vs. online Great Divide)? Are the mag cover story and the front page scoop still the main goal, relegating blogs to time-filling table scraps? (let alone replies / dialogues with readers, even us (Rusty aside) – even when dialogues / answering q’s. add to the story in unanticipated ways, but I digress)
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    The “amateur” bloggers like Wheeler and Cole do as good work as the pros. Everyone’s busy, yes, but delegating blog work as secondary when the Big Print Story must come first may be a mistake (“Sorry I didn’t blog lately. I was working on this dead-tree story….”). This isn’t be aimed at YOU, Joe, but I wonder if this attitude is all too common among your peers (I don’t know, but you, swampfriends, and Karen would know). Thanks.

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