For those who have been following the Connie Schultz/Jeff Jarvis/Ted Diadiun debacle relating to Connie’s column advancing the Baker Hostetler lawyer-backed plan to get Congress to amend the copyright law to “save” newspapers, it looks like there was some disagreement within the Plain Dealer newsroom regarding comments by Diadiun — the newspaper’s “reader representative” — that “a big reaction in the blog world is maybe 100 people” and that debate in that blog world is “really a bunch of pipsqueaks out there talking about what the real journalists do.”
From John Kroll, the paper’s news impact editor:
Wanted to let you know that I — representing the forces of sanity, wisdom and not wanting to tick off the entire online world — have taped a debate with Ted that will run this coming Monday in place of his usual chat.
Proving that neither one of us has the talent God gave Vanna White, it’s a whopping 20 minutes of monotonous babble. And Ted gets to talk, too. But we go over many of the points you and others raised — though even in 20 minutes, I couldn’t sweep up all the dust Ted stirred in just 10 minutes the first time around.
I hope you’ll check it out at the usual spot, cleveland.com/news-videos. It’ll be posted by 11 a.m. Monday.
Well then, this should be fun.
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