Depth Beats Breadth in the Internet News Game

Think of this as Volume 17, Number 2 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy.

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 Wonder why I'm not rich, if I'm so smart?

It's because, as a reporter, I'm a polymath. My knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep.

Journalism is my home because it lets me skip around from beat-to-beat depending on what interests me. Even for a journalist I'm not rich, for just that reason. Most journalists stick with one area, developing deep expertise, becoming pundits in those areas of expertise. I don't. I research an area and, once I decide I'm finished with it, I take my journalistic skill set and go somewhere else.