We speak it soundbites, so it’s easy-breezy conducting an interview that’s served up to a reporter with a little ribbon from the cuuuute paperie we discovered in the West Village. But the assault on in-person interviews, or even chatty cathy-ing over the tele, is growing, reports not-the-reactionary-type Howie Kurtz. Of course we have to turn to the likes of Blogger Ethics Experts like Jason Calacanis, Jeff jarvis, and Jay Rosen for something like this. Says Rosen: “Everyone used to be landlocked, and the media was the outlet to the sea of public discussion. But now there are many routes. . . . Readers have more power because they have more sources, and sources have more power because they can go direct to readers.”

We didn’t understand much of that, but here’s the gist: Sources are tired of their quotes being taken out of context, or cherry picked by reporters. Rather than respond to a journo’s list of questions, they’ll simply blog their answer, and a reporter is free to quote from the blog, which everyone else is free to read, too!

It all has to do with journalists and their agendas: Choosing quotes from sources that only back up their previously-held beliefs. Which, as you might know, is common practice among blogs.

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