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Blogging and honesty and mistakes

What happens when you make a mistake or change your mind on the blogosphere? Can you correct it? How should you correct it? Are you trapped, like politicians seem to be, in either holding a hardline approach to every opinion you’ve ever made public, no matter how stupid, or risk being called a flip-flopper or a revisionist?

Jenna Bush and journalism (and other stuff)

Jenna Bush teaches kids to protest and be journalists in one scene in the middle of a Texas Monthly profile. The title of the piece is Girl Gone Mild, and you can figure from there what it’s mostly about. Here’s the scene I mentioned: Read the rest of this entry »