Romenesko Chum

He’s a talented provocateur who sometimes smokes his own exhaust.

That artful putdown of Jeff Jarvis is sure to be sniffed out by journalism’s eminent aggregator.

In his response, Jarvis seems reflexively defensive, but I agree with him here:

I dare to question the assumptions about the forms of news and journalism…I believe it is my job, especially in a university, to challenge assumptions and to free students to invent new forms.

There is much to be said for that, more so if the provocateur believes what he says, even if it is sometimes just “exhaust.”