SALZMAN: Bloggers, reveal yourselves
Readers should know what they're getting, and from whom
By Jason Salzman, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Friday, March 28, 2008
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/28/salzman-bloggers-reveal-yourselves/Blog transparency. Are bloggers journalists? The best answer I've seen comes from Dan Gillmor, who writes in PR Week Feb. 25 that "the question is roughly the equivalent of asking whether people who write on paper are journalists."
Transgender stories. Over the past year, the Rocky has run two outstanding stories on transgendered people in our community.
The first by Chris Barge (Sept. 1) told the story of an Aurora police detective who decided to become a woman. The second, by Jeff Kass (March 1), described how a teenage boy decided to become a girl.
