It looks like a solid collection of snacks, but the context of Sifton's potato skin reset on DJ is a little odd. He plugs the published skins receipt, then talks about inheriting a flat screen from (DI/DO contributor) Marian Burros. The only comment is from (DI/DO contributor) Kim Severson, lamenting " Marion gave you a flat screen? All I got was a leftover jar of honey and some of her old cookbooks." It's amusing, and humanizes the names you see in the paper, but it's a little bit odd to see two major contributors to the most influential food section in the United States using the blog extension of their section to produce what feels more like a status comment thread on Facebook than journalism.
It may be me, or too much time with Benedict Anderson and Michael Warner, but it did remind me that some of the time I used to spend reading about people I did not know in the newspaper, I spend reading about people I do know on FB, Bloglines, Twitter, etc. Makes the Cod wonder what impact social media has on what we think of as news. This question is related to the concerns about newspapers in a digital age, but the difference between the questions is worth considering.
His whole use of the Diner's Journal has been a little odd, both the personal commentary and the reviews of what other food critics in other parts of the country are writing about.
Posted by: Dan | Sunday, 25 October 2009 at 04:57 PM
"Breaking news": Sifton inherits flat screen TV from Marion Burros and then loses the remote. Sounds like he doesn't know what the hell to write while in the hotseat. He's all over the map style-wise. He's not very engaging or entertaining. He tries to sound like a hipster but it comes off as forced and tinny.
Posted by: Marco | Monday, 26 October 2009 at 09:42 AM
In my personal opinion, I think that its possible. With the bloom of social media now a days. Facebook definitely has a big chance of becoming the future of journalism.
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