Does this make a lick of sense to anyone?
Website aims for new model of online journalism
True/Slant, a news and blog network of professional journalists, writers and academics founded by former AOL executives, test launches on Monday, aiming to bring order to the chaos of online journalism.
The site, which has been quietly open for public view since April, was conceived by Lewis Dvorkin, a veteran of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and a former senior executive of AOL News.
How the hell do you “test launch” a website, and how is a website “quietly open for public view”? A site is either open to the public or it isn’t, and blogs on True/Slant have been widely known and linked to for months.
Mr Dvorkin left AOL, a division of Time Warner, in April 2008 to create a new model of web journalism that would allow professional journalists and experts to easily post articles, pictures, video and “curate†their community of readers.
Yes, brand shiny new, if by new you mean nearly a decade old. Did a PR person dictate this article to the journalist?
