Here is the more serious point: journalists are way under-rated as influencers. They are at the center of interesting discussion. And that will continue to be the case, even in a discussion environment which seems to challenge the traditional definition of the profession.
From Nick Denton’s Q&A attempt to sell people on the Kinja platform – something I’m still not convinced of the USP of, but I might just be dim. Before you get too excited about Denton apparently offering more value to journalists than they’re traditionally afforded, elsewhere in the same chat, he says this: “We intend to blur the line between journalist and reader.” And this: “To me, a writer is words on a page; and numbers on this screen. That may seem cold; but at least it’s fair.”
He also ducks the question about letting Gawker employees unionize: “Let’s save that particular question for another session.”
Hashtag “Complicated Feelings About Gawker Based on Personal Experience,” perhaps.