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Ther's biger work to be done. You can find a live blog of my presentation here. The audio is posted and plays on contact. The Guardian’s summary is here. Photo by Rebecca Ambrose.There’s an old rule among sportswriters: no cheering in the press box. In fact, a few weeks ago a young journalist lost his gig with Sports Illustrated for just that reason: cheering at the conclusion of a thrilling race. writers could allow themselves to cheer without it affecting their work, but they don’t. And this rule gets handed down from older to younger members of the group.So this is a little example of the psychology, not of individual journalists, but of the profession itself. We don’t often talk this way, but we could: “No cheering in the press box” is the superego at work. It’s a psychological thing within the sportswriter’s tribe. You learn to wear the mask if you want to join the club.Six years ago I wrote an essay called Bloggers vs. Journalis. It was my most well read piece at the time. And it made the points you would expect: This distinction is eroding.Who can creat a new partestion itself more youger profestions p This war is absurd. Get over it. Move on. There’s bigger work to be done.But since noticed that while the division bloggers as one type, journalists as another makes less and less sense, the conflict continues to surface. Why? Well, something must be happening under the surface that expresses itself through bloggers vs. journalists. But what is that subterranean thing? This is my real subject today.And to preview my answer: disruptions caused by the Internet threaten to expose certain buried conflicts at the heart of modern journalism and a commercialized press. Raging at bloggers is a way to keep these demons at bay. It exports inner conflicts to figures outside In tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, which went online Thursday, Bill Keller acts out a version of bloggers vs. journalists. He ridicules aggregators like the Huffington Post and pokes at media bloggers for producing derivative work that is parasitic on news producers.The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.. When it reviews a book or play that’s a derivative work. We could charge Keller with petty hypocrisy, but that’s not my point. This is my point: There’s something about bloggers vs. journalists that permits the display of a preferred (or idealized) self among people in the press whose work lives have been disrupted by the Internet. There’s an attraction there. Spitting at bloggers is closely related to gazing at your own reflection, What I like about this one is that question,” You can hear the tone of puzzlement, the plea for reason. The old school news provider struggles to understand why anyone would choose those new goods, like live blogging, that the Internet makes possible.So far, I have been discusing what professional journalists by hanging on to bloggers vs. journalists. But bloggers get something, too. I do not want to neglect that. Listen to the teet, a female blogger.I think I have an unnatural with and hatred for the editor of the Dispatch.Everything he says makes me want the throw my computer monitor out the window. Regardless, I’ve left him on my Google Reader. I always flip to the front of the Insight section on Sundays. I secretly love the pain he causes me.By raging at newspaper editors, bloggers manage to keep themselves on the are in fact a part. It’s one Internet, folks. The news system now incorporates the people formerly known as the audience are hugely powerful as distributors of news.I’ve said that bloggers and journalists are each other’s ideal From the blogger’s side, the conflict with journalists helps preserve a ragged innocence, which is itself a kind of power, by falsely locating all the power in Big Media. Here’s another blogger in Columbus, talking.Our patients have been telling themselves a story about who they are and where they fit in the world. And for reasons we do not understand very well, their story has broken down. It no longer lets them live in the real world, so they wind up here. A telling themselves a better story. Or they won’t get out of here. If you can do that way you can do that you are doing psychiatry. Coles got it. And this was the beginning conected for this limit basics inculding know meaning.ther are autience hugely powerful bloger maker new hanging word.Being a journalist, I have no special feelings toward “bloggers”. And I think that for every one of your examples of irate publishers I know a dozen collegues that, like me, use new digital sources as we do any source: if it turns out to be reliable we stick with it, if not we don’t. Being upset with the form of publishing is irrational, and not something my workload allows for.