Stealing stories
We all suspect that mainstream journalists, the smart ones at least, read blogs to pick up story ideas. Here's proof. I pointed Rebecca Mead of the New Yorker to a review of Lovely Day on Lockhart Steele's site. We didn't like the place. But Rebecca went on to find a reference to a party, for Unmarried to Eachother, a book about cohabitation put together by some of Lockhart's friends. A fortnight later, it's a Talk of the Town item. The problem isn't journalists stealing stories from blogs; the problem is that not enough of them do it. Unmarried [Lockhart Steele] The Talk of the Town [Rebecca Mead]
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