"Old-school" journalism

Jeff Jarvis over at BuzzMachine.com has an illuminating post up on the "rules" for the WSJ reporters, which clearly show that "new" and "old" journalism are living in two seperate dimensions... Among the WSJ rules are:

- Do not mix pleasure and business on Twitter

- Do not talk about how the "sausage is being made" (story editing, reporting, attending meetings, sourcing, ongoing unpublished investigations, etc.)

I see no reason why contextualizing and humanizing journalism is inherently bad. It seems to be working very well for Politico.com and Brian Williams over at MSNBC...