{"id":686,"date":"2009-06-12T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/dave_horsey_responds\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T21:14:07","slug":"dave_horsey_responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/dave_horsey_responds.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Horsey responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Batting the verbal ball back and forth is one of my favorite things! Like Woody Allen, I don’t want to play tennis with the ocean. <\/p>\n

Below, the best political cartoonist in the country<\/a> responds to my post titled, Dave Horsey derides his former (fired) PI colleagues<\/i>, here<\/a>. (Well played, Dave. Match set. Your favor.)<\/p>\n

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Regina, I still love you, even though your comments about me are preposterous.<\/p>\n

In no way was I deriding my former colleagues in my remarks about
\nthe new media reality. We are, indeed, in the midst of a revolution in
\nthe world of journalism. There are some terrible results — most
\nparticularly, the thousands of jobs lost by incredibly talented
\njournalists such as my friends and colleagues at the P-I. But there are
\nalso new opportunities for us all as we try to reinvent the way news is
\ndelivered to the public. My remarks were addressed to the advertisers
\nwho are vital to making new models work. If there’s no money stream,
\nthere won’t be any journalists being paid and we won’t be able to
\nrebuild American journalism. My greatest hope is that the business
\nmodel of seattlepi.com will be so successful that many of the reporters
\nwho lost their jobs will be hired back and the great tradition of the
\nP-I will be reborn.<\/p>\n

As far as my cartoon about blogging, Regina, you were way, way off
\nthe mark. The cartoon was inspired by a New York Times article that
\nsaid 95 percent of the blogs that have been started are now dormant and
\nall but a fraction of those that remain active have an audience of one.
\nThe point of the cartoon was that, just because a person has an
\nopinion, there is no guarantee that anyone else wants to hear it. Most
\npeople still want to read the words of those who have credentials. I,
\nfor instance, would prefer to read Regina Hackett’s opinion about art
\nrather than the comments of someone who is merely popping off an
\nill-informed screed.<\/p>\n

Regina, I’m sorry you decided to pop off about me without doing a
\nlittle research, but, as I said, I still love you and all my P-I
\ncolleagues.
\nI know I’m one of the few lucky ones in this current sad situation, but
\nthat doesn’t mean I don’t miss the old P-I and the people who made it
\ngreat.<\/p>\n

David Horsey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Batting the verbal ball back and forth is one of my favorite things! Like Woody Allen, I don’t want to play tennis with the ocean. Below, the best political cartoonist in the country responds to my post titled, Dave Horsey derides his former (fired) PI colleagues, here. (Well played, Dave. Match set. Your favor.) Regina, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}