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I interviewed This American Life<\/em> contributing editor Jack Hitt for the MAKE blog – read part 1 here<\/a>, part 2 here<\/a>. Our discussion was around the notion of the amateur and American amateurism as a re-emerging phenomenon – but in my mind Jack is best known for his Bush-era 2006 broadcast<\/a> & 2007 update<\/a> including interviews with former Guantanamo prisoners, and the principle of habeas corpus. His other broadcasts can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n From my interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n Amateurs gather where some discipline is in distress and where innovation is waiting. So, I went looking for those places. Consider my own world of journalism. In the last few decades, the stately media have become high-born press agents, carefully reciting reports handed to them by a semi-permanent bureaucracy in Washington, DC. Then, along came bloggers, swarming the fortress of official journalism, painfully reminding the inhabitants what afflicting the comfortable actually means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read part 1 of the interview here<\/a>. I interviewed This American Life contributing editor Jack Hitt for the MAKE blog – read part 1 here, part 2 here. Our discussion was around the notion of the amateur and American amateurism as a re-emerging phenomenon – but in my mind Jack is best known for his Bush-era 2006 broadcast & 2007 update including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[755,753,754],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-interview","tag-jack-hitt","tag-this-american-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Jack-Hitt-Author-Photo.jpeg?fit=705%2C529&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2bh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15370,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/15370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRead part 2 of the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"