The New New Journalism: All You Need is a Digital Audio Recorder, an Angry President and an Unsuspecting Face

Who could have guessed that a 61 year old woman would be leading the charge into the wild and unruly lands of the new-media journalism. Armed with only a digital recorder, and nothing identifying her as press “amateur journalist,” Mayhill Fowler (she writes for HuffPo’s “Off the Bus“) managed to scoop just about everyone, twice.

The first time was in April when she caught Barack Obama’s “bitter” moment on tape and then she did it again last week when she egged former President Bill Clinton into his crazy, post Vanity Fair tirade.

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