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Distraction Journalism
2012-01-19 18:48:00 Some supposedly well-informed writers attempt, at the dawn of this election year, with an apparent straight face, contend that the incumbent president “as yet has not had a single significant scandal to his name.” They get away with this because our supposedly even-handed legacy media choose not to report stories which, if they had occurred ...
By: GayPatriot
YouTube DIRECT ? Il Citizen Journalism per tutti.
2011-10-24 23:32:00 YouTube si fa piattaforma anche per siti terzi. Espressamente pensata per aziende media che vogliano raccogliere raw footage dalla strada per trasformali in notizie. Semplice e potente. YouTube spazza via in un sol colpo tutti gli aspiranti distributori di piattaforme … Continue reading →
Losing control of a TV discussion: a masterclass
2011-09-30 11:43:00 When Jeremy Paxman engages, he is an excellent presenter. When he is bored?not so much. The clip below shows what happens when Newsnight attempts to recreate the kind of boorish conversation that would not have passed for debate in ye … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
The role of independent journalism ? my take
2011-09-25 05:54:00 By J L Samboma The following piece is the outcome of a recent encounter I had on an internet forum. It began after I commented on the role of independent journalism in society. It was the first time I had been forced to define what independent journalism means to me. I say "forced" because it made me dig deep. Ducking out of a response was not an option. I have reproduced it here because I believe it is relevant. Secondly, because I hope to open up the debate to anyone who has a contrary view, so that the dialectice can continue on in a wider sphere. This is what I wrote:
By: eBeefs
Creative destruction
2011-09-23 21:55:00 When we follow through the history of particular industries and see new skills arise as old ones decline, it is possible to forget that the old skill and the new almost always were the perquisite of different people? Even where … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
The Future of Journalism: Casey Anthony Case Study
2011-09-14 22:50:00 Originally posted at NikkyRaney.com Written by Nikky Raney Casey Anthony is the most hated person in America and the way the news media covered her trial as well as her life in general didn't help the people in our society think highly of her. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC and the rest of the televised news media tried to be objective by interviewing prosecuting attorneys as well as defense attorneys, but the look on the faces of those reporting and the tones in their voice showed that they had an opinion and the opinion was not favorable. The print media was not much better where the blogs were overtaking the online news sites and the papers and magazines didn't paint her in a favorable light either, and Newsweek even did an article after the fact that suggested that she could be placed in the same category as OJ Simpson as someone who got away with murder. There was also an article in Newsweek titled Did Casey Anthony Get Away With Murder? With a title like that it's hard to no...
Noramfaizul Mohd Nor
2011-09-06 13:13:00 What was supposed to be a normal day yesterday started out with some heartbreaking news. I always try not to read the news when I start my day, but a headline caught my eye as I was logging in to check my mail: Bernama TV cameraman shot dead in Somalia. PETALING JAYA: Bernama TV cameraman ...
By: SD's Corner
Can you trust the author?
2011-09-02 10:22:00 Apparently not. And I owe Stephen Bates an apology. Mr. Monck, I just purchased a copy of your book Can You Trust the Media? I found your discussion of the 1940s Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press on p. … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
Journalism and the politics of hunger ? Opinion ? Al Jazeera English
2011-08-28 08:24:00 Via Scoop.it – Green Party The struggle against starvation, violence and disease is also the struggle to understand and describe the world.Show original Tags: Al Jazeera, al jazeera english, green party <BR/>
By: News for Greens
News of the World: victim and villain in the poisonous communication of pub
2011-07-08 10:19:00 Most aspects of the News of the World?s demise have been picked over. But this is not, for all the headlines, a scandal of journalism, or proprietors, or mergers and acquisitions. Journalists are journalists, proprietors are businessmen and deals are … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
DePaul journalism students hit the streets - and rails - for Red Line Proje
2011-05-26 14:00:00 The CTA's Red Line truly connects the city of Chicago from north to south -- and is fodder for great stories. After all, where would CTA Tattler be without it?A journalism instructor at DePaul University recognized those simple facts, and gave birth to a stunning class assignment, the Red Line Project.Mike Reilley, the instructor and site architect, pulls out an apt analogy to explain the idea for the Red Line Project site: "I concepted the site when studying at The Poynter Institute, a journalism think-tank, in the Summer of 2009. The idea was rooted in an analogy I had used for years to explain to students the difference between the Internet and the Web -- to think of the Internet...
Democracy after journalism
2011-04-12 22:26:00 I suppose the title reveals my concerns, which are more about the former than the latter. We?ll be talking about it in Perugia this week at the International Journalism Festival. Here?s a reading list: Journalism was long ago seen as … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
Gonzo Journalism: Red Sox Finally Get Adrian Gonzalez After Years of Rumors
2010-12-06 18:51:00 Seeing Adrian Gonzalez in a Red Sox uniform may make me weep, excellent news this morning. The waiting is the hardest part Every day you get one more yard You take it on faith, you take it to the heart...
By: SawxBlog.com
WikiLeaks: Our Staunch Ally Or A Foe Of The People?
2010-12-01 04:06:00 Question: Isn’t WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Simply Doing What The Press Of Our Founding Fathers MEANT For The Press To Do? Believe me, I’ve pondered and pondered long and hard over this “WikiGate” thing — to the point of being unable to think of, or write about... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
The price of blogging
2010-10-28 13:07:00 In the mid-2000s City University?s Journalism school ? well me, to be precise ? had a number of conversations with the Bahraini authorities about journalism education, in the context of a more open and robust political culture. The conversations began with an approach by a junior member of the ruling family, a former academic of ...
By: Adrian Monck
Greetings from Blog World and Thoughts on the Future of Journalism
2010-10-15 07:01:00 Big Tiny World is at Blog World along with 3,000 attendees from around the world. Did you know there are about 100 million bloggers on the internet? Pretty amazing. Back in journalism school, I never imagined the world of broadcast news could change in such dramatic fashion.With Blog World CEO and Co-founder, Rick Calvert.Here's part of my conversation with Rick Calvert, CEO and Co-founder of the Blog World Expo.BT: What do you make of the divide between traditional media and new media?RC: They're gonna converge and that's what our event is about. We want to foster that convergence between traditional and new media. There are a lot of things that new media can learn and, on the other side, there...
Barbarians at the Gate ? Britain?s Broken Public Sphere
2010-10-11 22:01:00 Alan Rusbridger?s What is the future of the fourth estate prompts a thought on the state of British media, or ? more simply ? the BBC/Murdoch duopoly. The BBC commands radio, online, magazines (Top Gear, Gardener?s World) and mainstream TV viewing. Sky and Newscorp command subscription TV and print. They are ? natch ? deadly ...
By: Adrian Monck
Replies to a journalism student
2010-08-30 21:58:00 Belinda Giles sent me the following email: Dear Adrian I am a university student in Western Australia, studying law/journalism. I am working on an opinion piece for the journalism component ? the subject is ?journalism is the lifeblood of democracy?. During my googling I came across your blog ? ?a blog about news?. I have ...
By: Adrian Monck
Trick 'Gotcha' Journalism
2010-06-15 03:51:00 Ever since those dumb-asses (the black ones not the white ones) gave the needed testimony via idiot-cam bringing down the altruistic organization ACORN, the right has been using its form of 'Gotcha' journalism to forward the rise to the reich, it dreams of when no one else is looking. Yes, I still say that the teabaggers are a bunch of heartless and more often than not, mindless racists, thinly veiled by their anger at all things 'liberal', unless it is Social Security, Medicare any other government program that takes care of their dumb asses.So Congressman Bob Etheridge, a democrat from North Cakalacky, was confronted by a peach fuzz faced 'student' asking him a baited question that among a certain group...
Janet Malcolm on journalism
2010-06-04 17:39:00 Janet Malcolm has some choice words about journalism in her extended essay in the 3 May 2010 New Yorker. Over the years, the social status and the education level of journalists has risen and some journalists write extremely well. But the profession retains its transgressiveness. Human frailty continues to be the currency in which it ...
By: Adrian Monck
Women with PENS! Journalism as Activism Program at Columbia College
2010-03-25 05:45:00 "One day, your talent will make room for you."The Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds, award winning journalist (USA Today, Ebony, Essence among others) and author of Out of Hell & Living Well was one of several media luminaries on hand at the Woman Behind the Name Journalism as Activism: Using Media to Expose Inequality and Impact Social Change program held this evening at Columbia College. This was also a celebration of journalist Ida B. Wells, her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, released her second book, Ida From Abroad at the A-List event. Anne Roosevelt was also in attendance! The event was co-presented by the National Public Housing Museum and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in...
OOPS: In Defense Of Bush Administration, Rudy Giuliani Forgets 9/11 Attacks
2010-01-09 01:38:00 George Stephanopoulos’ Good Morning America Interview With “America’s Mayor” Reveals Possible Short-Term Memory Loss For Rudy; Rudy’s Spokesman “Clarifies” Statement After Considerable Scrutiny From Prominent Bloggers Over Stephanopoulos’ Failure To... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
YouTube DIRECT ? Il Citizen Journalism per tutti.
2009-12-21 10:07:00 YouTube si fa piattaforma anche per siti terzi. Espressamente pensata per aziende media che vogliano raccogliere raw footage dalla strada per trasformali in notizie. Semplice e potente. YouTube spazza via in un sol colpo tutti gli aspiranti distributori di piattaforme e di comunità annesse. La sfida più grande rimane sempre la stessa: grantire la qualità ...
Everything I know about journalism, I learned from David
2009-11-17 03:35:00 An unlikely pairToday, I got the news that my mentor just died. I'm really heartbroken. I'm in pieces, actually. What is there to do or say, except to write? The medium we both loved best. David McClendon was hired at the Chi-town Daily News just a couple of weeks before I started there as an intern. We sat back to back in a small office. On my second day, David got my attention by turning around and poking me in the back of the neck. It was weird, and I remember thinking, "I don't know about this guy... Who pokes their new co-worker in the back of the neck?" Yeah, I'm terrible with first impressions....
Newsweek On Fox News And Glenn Beck: Fox Poised To Become First Network To
2009-10-18 23:19:00 Glenn Beck’s Misinformation Campaign Against Swine Flu (H1N1) Vaccinations Are Unprecedented In Mainstream Media (MSM)… font face=”palatino linotype”>I know my fellow Libs are going to rip me for this statement but I absolutely enjoy watching Glenn Beck. Don’t get me... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Scandal, Journalism Ethics, BBC and Nayapatrika
2009-10-15 09:40:00 The Namrata Shrestha sex scandal has created a huge impact not only in Nepalese film industry but also started debate on ethics in journalism. BBC Nepali aired a program ?Nepal Samdarva? (listen audio in Nepali) in which Rabindra Mishra questioned on the ethics of Nepali journalist to bring out the news to general public. ...
How to Save Newspapers and Journalism ¦ Barry Ritholtz [del.icio.us]
2009-09-12 10:34:00 We know that the annual subscription model won?t work outside of finance. And that there will be numerous papers that won?t survive, either on or off line. Free content is going to continue to siphon off readers and ad dollars, albeit modestly. ?Revenue from newspaper classified ads is off nearly 50 percent in the past decade, a drop that comes to almost $10 billion. Only a fraction of this loss is because of Newmark?s company, but as the largest online classified site, craigslist is easy to blame,? says Wired. Total revenue (from all sources) fall last year was $7.5 billion. And this means that total (free) reader numbers will be going down in the future; Papers need to do the math to ensure the loss of advertising revenue from non-paying readers is offset by subscriber revenue.
By: Adrian Monck
Judges on journalism & lawyers on blogging...
2009-07-24 00:41:00 While it's nice to know that Chicago's very own federal judge Richard Posner is a fan of newspapers, it's interesting to hear what he thinks will help save them. Here's what he blogged today on the future of newspapers: "Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion."...
The new journalism: Collaborative effort tweets crucial info on Saturday Re
2009-07-20 13:00:00 New media (Twitter) and old media (newspaper coverage and phone calls) converged Saturday to provide CTA riders with up-to-the-minute news about the Red Line subway closure.It was at 11:42 am Saturday that the first CTA Tweet went out about problems on the Red Line. Punkcoder reported good stuff that CTA Tweet retweeted immediately: "RT @punkcoder: @ctared Sbound trains redirected above ground due to an equipment failure. No word yet from #CTA: http://bit.ly/17eXi5"Just three minutes later we had details on the real reason why the Red Line subway was closed for more than two hours on a busy Saturday afternooon:"Confirmed: all @ctared trains rerouted to El tracks between Fullerton and Cermak-Chinatown due to a fire. Details here: http://bit.ly/lBfnK"Then a few minutes...
Another Friday Open Thread Opportunity ? ACU?s FedEx -Slash UPS Pay-To-Play
2009-07-18 04:27:00 Another GTL? Open Thread Friday — Have Your Say… Here we go again — lots of political news going on out there on The ‘Nets and with it being hard to zero in on any particular issue for THIS blogger, and considering the fact our readers seem to be having a lot of fun with... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Mobile phones vs. Telegrams: Journalism Morality Down the Ages
2009-07-09 14:31:00 Given Nick Davies’ story alleging mass mobile phone-hacking by journalists, it might perhaps be instructive to look back at the journalistic morals of another age. Here, by way of example, is ‘Journalism and Morality’ by Silas Bent, published in 1926 in The Atlantic (and quoted in Can You Trust The Media?). Note especially - towards the ...
By: Adrian Monck
Leaving
2009-07-09 11:05:00 Although I?ll be haunting College Building for the next week or so, today is my leaving drinks (or ?glad you?re gone? party as we used to call them). I?ll be keeping up a link with the place as a prof, and I?ll be trying to bash out a PhD. And I?ll also be giving a modest sum ...
By: Adrian Monck
Newspaper subscription by algorithm
2009-06-16 11:26:00 My hunch? Not quite there yet…
By: Adrian Monck
The New York Times via the Daily Show
2009-06-11 18:11:00 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c End Times www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Unedited Interview
By: Adrian Monck
The redundant story: math and the future of journalism
2009-06-01 17:27:00 I have long argued the rather unoriginal position that journalism’s mission to inform has its roots in religious ‘infotainment’ both popular and intellectual - moralising editorials replaced moralising sermons, etc. But I’ve been struggling to express why that mission seems such a recurrent trope in history. The use of stories for entertaining and moral purposes is clear ...
By: Adrian Monck
My new job?and yours?
2009-05-20 13:00:00 I am delighted and - yes, excited - to announce that I’ll be joining the World Economic Forum as Managing Director and Head of Communications from August. [More here.] In the new role I’ll be removing my commentary hat and travelling a lot more, so the blog will probably fall into abeyance - it’s been suffering from ...
By: Adrian Monck
Obama: justifying a news media bailout?
2009-05-11 11:23:00 If you wondered about the US government and the news media, and the possibility - the hint, flicker, barest glimmer - of some kind of bailout, then listen to the last few humourless minutes of Barack Obama's speech to the White House press corps (it's from 2'50" in on the clip below). Is he merely playing to the gallery? Or is he providing the intellectual justification for future action? Or am I simply indulging my journalistic passion for over-interpretation?
By: Adrian Monck
The opportunities and implications of BBC partnerships with local media
2009-04-28 23:00:00 A long time ago, I wrote the plan to run ITV News in London (replacing LNN), modelled on the operating structure for Five News. It involved reformatting shows and cutting staffing to the bare minimum required to get on air.
By: Adrian Monck
Longtime U of Md. journalism dean dies at 78
(AP)
2009-03-17 16:01:00 AP - Reese Cleghorn, a former newspaper opinion editor credited with transforming the University of Maryland's journalism school, has died. He was 78.
Freelance Photography and Citizen Journalism workshop coming Soon.
2009-01-20 00:59:00 Only once a year, the Freelance Photography workshop tells you how to pitch clients, coding of images, and getting PAID. National and International events have called upon citizen journalists for images. Everyone can use a liitle cash,learn directly how you can get yours! Get the info from Ken McCoy at this seminar!!! Email: xipnek@aol.com. Subject: Freelance (to reserve your spot) Checks and Credit Cards will all be accepted online. Date and location announced soon.
Saving Journalism With Flash and Java
2009-01-14 14:06:00 From Slashdot: New York magazine has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether b
Robert Fisk in Kandahar, Afghanistan
2008-11-20 11:24:00 Things don't look so good.Fisk is a great writer, and even where I disagree with his POV, his analysis is generally right on the money. He's one of our finest foreign correspondents writing in English today.The Taliban are winning, at least in Kandahar. The Afghan "Army" leaves the Kandahar streets by 4 PM every day. The Afghan Police are lethargic and barely even check passengers anymore at the Kandahar Airport.Everyone is against the occupation and the extremely corrupt and shitty Afghan government, but no one will say a word against the Taliban.Ominously, there are rumblings that indicate that forces other than the Taliban, such as the Taliban's old enemies, may also take up arms against "the foreign occupiers" soon. Fighting the foreign infidel occupiers. In Afghanistan, a tradition as old as dirt.If it's still on sale, check out the latest Rolling Stone, with an article by Israeli expat (now living in the US) journalist Nir Rosen (one of the fast-moving runners' up behind ...
By: Robert Lindsay
Does New Media ?Journalism? Have Standards?
2008-10-03 21:34:00 Opinion: I butted my way into a Twitter exchange today between two respected journalists, Mathew Ingram and Kara Swisher. Apparently Ms. Swisher didn?t think Mathew should have spread the tweet gossip about Steve Jobs? heart attack considering that he hadn?t fact-checked the story for accuracy. Mathew, on the other hand, disagreed: While I have nothing but ...
By: sarahintampa
Voter Question = ?Gotcha Journalism?
2008-09-30 17:39:00 Why can't Palin speak for herself? Why is McCain jumping all over this? [HTML1]
By: BuffaloPundit
The First Rule of True Journalism
2008-09-19 23:07:00 -By Vince Johnson There was some minor media attention given to Ferraro?s qualifications when Walter Mondale selected her for his running mate in the 1984 Presidential Race. The Reagan/Bush ad campaigns treated her candidacy with caution based on a common sense strategy to avoid offending America?s women voters as well as an obvious need ...
By: Publius Forum
John Edwards Scandal: Mainstream Press Sticking to Schieffer Standard
2008-08-27 19:35:00 The “Schieffer Standard” Lethargy over John Edwards Scandal Returns to MSM In the John Edwards Scandal, CBS News’ Bob Schieffer serves as the poster child for the ADHD Mainstream Media. After a spike in coverage–largely composed of stories about why the MSM didn’t allow their customers news of the John Edwards affair, scandal and cover-up before John Edwards ...
Free Speech via Journalism Equals Democracy
2008-07-12 19:33:00 Bill Moyers, in his speech to the audience at the National Conference on Media Reform,"Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent at the same time that it enhances the power of the state and the privileged interests that the state protects. And nothing characterizes corporate media today more than its disdain toward the fragile nature of modern life and its indifference toward the complex social debate required of a free and self-governing people."Journalism can make or break a democracy.In the swirl surrounding the events of September 11, 2001, was there any debate, or simply a lying down and a dogged acceptance of the established line, spoon-fed from the current administration?We desperately need media reform, as some outing of the truth from the perpe-traitors.For more on media reform, see StopBigMedia.com
By: Tumerica
What Passes for ?Journalism,? Giving Obama a Free Pass
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Recently the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star subjected its readers to another fine example of sloppy journalism aimed at exalting the Obama candidacy. It is so bad, so pointless, so filled with empty platitudes and meaninglessness that one might suspect it was written by Barack Obama himself instead of a reputed journalist. But ...
By: Publius Forum
Lintaskan Berita! Berita Apa?
2008-06-20 08:16:00 Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to... [[ Click title to read the rest of this entry. ]]
Over 1,600 visitors a Day
2008-06-14 03:54:00 Updated June 18:We've just passed 1,600 visitors a day for the past week, even though I haven't posted much. Everybody local I talk to thinks this blog is some kind of a joke, but according to The Truth Laid Bear, it is in the top 1,500 blogs on the Internet. That's out of over 90 million blogs. It's true that TTLB doesn't count them all, but still...Everybody seems to think it's simple to get 1,500 visitors/day traffic. Tell you what. Go for it. Go make yourself a blog and see how long it takes you to get up to 1,500 visitors/day. It took me 3 1/2 years of hard, painstaking work.I may try to get on with BlogAds. At that kind of traffic, you might start making a little bit. You really need over 1,000/day and a tightly focused blog to get any significant ads at all. Problem with this blog is it is not that tightly focused. I had an advertiser, but he wanted $25/month and I told him to walk. At this point, I probably want something like $60/month or so, or maybe even more.Unless...
By: Robert Lindsay
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