This was a point made not by a tech journo but by a political reporter.

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Last night at an East Village bar with two of my journo friends, we talked about our favorite celebrity tweeps.

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Hunstable backflips into a perfect Journo Avoidance landing.

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This strong sense of history and context makes Mr Giddins much more than your average jazz journo, and his writing abounds with stimulating observations, even if his far-flung gift for reference occasionally gets the better of him.

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But this Journo will not be swayed.

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If the game journo sites would raise their standards, or even just admit COD is a casual game, they might reconnect with their audience and quell some of the complaining you talk about at the top of your article.

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And what should worry Redmond a great deal more than some journo like me remarking upon this is the way that at least one fund manager has sold his stock in the company as a result of his confusion over their plans.

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That was the question posed in a letter to tech journo Farhad Manjoo and advice columnist Emily Joffe in one my favorite features over at Slate, Manners for the Digital Age, a podcast dedicated to tackling novel etiquette questions in the Internet age.

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IGN, growing weary of Nintendo's continued declarations of a "2006" launch date, went all investigative journo on us and dug up some dirt from game manufacturers who are getting busy with Revolution titles, albeit some with merely souped up GameCube dev units for testing.

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