We’re Putting The Blogging Back Into The Blog

Starting this week, we’re going to shake up the Editor’s blog a bit. Instead of long-column-like entries, we’re going to become more blog-like and post at least twice a week about the Orato community of correspondents and the exciting realm of citizen journalism, as well as weighing in on specific events and people in the news.

We hope you’ll check in and post your own comments – and join in on a running color commentary on the citizen news revolution.

Let’s kick it off with Audrina Patridge. There’s something sad about this kid’s nude photos being the number one viewed story (notice I didn’t type “number-one read story”...) several weeks running, with more than 10,000 views. But The Hills is a popular show, and your editors are drawn to it like moths to a bug zapper. So Audrina Patridge is news. I just don’t understand why nude photos are an essential element of launching your career. Nobody asked me for nude photos when I interviewed for my first journalism job – working for an agriculture paper, now sadly defunct. We did have lots of photos of naked cows and their udders, however.