October 27, 2006

Thbbbt!

WKRN political blogger A.C. Kleinheider, whom I usually refer to as ACK, relates a heart-to-heart conversation involving a couple of journalists. Read the whole thing. Excerpt:

I explained to The Journalist that the call letters I stated at the beginning of our conversation were not for radio but television -- WKRN in Nashville. I told The Journalist that I wrote the political blog for the station.

Well, The Journalist was a bit upset. The Journalist stated that he/she would have never given me the contact information had he/she known I was a blogger and not a fellow journalist. I explained that although I do write in a blog format that I am, in fact, paid cash money by a mainstream media organization.

Again, The Journalist went on to explain the collegial relationship that journalists have with each other to which, apparently, I, as a "blogger", was not entitled.

I apologized to The Journalist for his/her misunderstanding and again pointed out that I was sitting in the newsroom of a television station. She remained unconvinced but we said our polite farethewells and I assumed that to be the end of it.

And, ACK, you really ought to "out" The Journalist who laid the great big hair ball of snobbery on you.