Bloggers, journos huff and puff over expected Paltrow debut on Huffington blog

By Diana Day. Posted: 2005-05-17

Via washingtonpost.com: Robert MacMillan offers a rundown and analysis of media slams against Gwyneth Paltrow for her promised blogging appearance on huffingtonpost.com, Arianna Huffington's newly launched news and views site that boasts a huge array of celebrities. [See related OJR article and Q&A with Huffington.] Jim Romenesko linked Monday to a CNN transcript of Huffington explaining why she has celebrities on her blog.

Comments:

From Jon Garfunkel on May 17, 2005 at 9:38 PM

A better headline for OJR would have been: "Bloggers, journos cannot avoid celebrity glare." MacMillan, doesn't at all "huff and puff"; he nails it. He concludes saying that bloggers "find themselves in the ironic position of defending their rebel turf against a corporate invasion."

What's been happening is that citizen journalism isn't ready for prime-time. Yet it's being marketed as such. For some time now, the blogging evangelists have asked public figures to blog, and now the invitation's been accepted, the folk nature of blogging (for what its worth) is yielding to the stars of the old media. I've written a little more on this point on the new gatekeepers.