HH: Time to do an end of the year look at the media hour. It’s pretty easy to find a lot of aging MSM’ers who hate the new media, and blogs in particular. But it’s very rare to find a young MSM’er who wants to throw down against the blogs especially, but we’ve got one. Last week, Joseph Rago wrote, “The Blog Mob: Written By Fools To Be Read By Imbeciles”, in the Opinionjournal.com, and I welcome him now to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Joe, welcome. Good to have you.
JR: Thanks for the invitation, Hugh.
HH: Now did this piece also appear in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal?
JR: Yes, it did.
HH: All right. And what day was it on…December 20th, correct?
JR: That’s right.
HH: Okay. Now what is your job at the Journal?
JR: I’m an assistant editorial features editor.
HH: And how long have you been at it?
JR: What that basically means is I edit and commission op-ed pieces, and I write occasionally for the page.
HH: And so how long have you been doing it?
JR: About 20 months now, something like that.
HH: Okay. Before that, you were an undergrad at Dartmouth, correct?
JR: That’s right.
HH: What year did you graduate?
JR: 2005.
HH: And you were the editor of the Dartmouth Review, a student newspaper, right?
JR: I was.
HH: Are writers and editors of student newspapers journalists, Joe?
JR: Yeah, I would say they are, in a minor way. You know, they cover the campus.
HH: So they’re not paid, though.
JR: No, they’re not.
HH: And what makes them journalists then?
JR: Sorry, can you repeat the question?
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