Original Net Reporting: An Interview With Pete Hamill

Published: August 8, 2007, 9:06 am

Tags: blogging, books, original reporting, internet news media, media

TMV frequent Guest Reviewer Dan Schneider has a fascinating, in depth interview with journalist Pete Hamill on his own website. Here’s THE LINK TO IT and how it starts: DS: Pete Hamill, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed for The Dan Schneider Interview series. The very purpose of this series is to combat what I call the deliteracy' of current and common culture, i.e.- the active dumbing down of art and discourse. Nowadays, many magazines that used to interview people of substance and ideas would rather speak with the latest pop babe of the month, or the current politician whose garbage is grabbing the most headlines. Additionally, even though most of this world's information sharing is done online- not via tv nor radio, the Internet has become the largest haven to the Lowest Common Denominator- and a Lite version of the LCD, at that. Most websites, if they want articles on any subject, demand that the articles be about five or six hundred words, claiming that web

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