Archive for 'journalism'
Is our journalists educated?
This is pretty awesome. When Hillary challenged Barack to a “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate, Fox TV’s national news ran the following graphic.
I guess they thought she said “Lincoln-Douglass.”
What a debate that must have been!
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via Wonkette
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Posted: April 30th, 2008 under journalism, popular.culture.
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Controlled chaos and blog journalism
El Blogador at Inner Diablog (whose interesting posts I often consult in the context of my Buried Mirror research) cites Samuel Pepys and Jean Baudrillard as models for bloggish prose. These writers, he says, “pointed towards to a new style of writing that consciously moves out towards the edge of discussion (or the long tail [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2007 under blogging, journalism.
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Standards of Journalism
Print journalists criticizing bloggers is nothing new. So when Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University, wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, in which he asserted that bloggers do no real reporting, it was difficult to suppress a yawn.
To bolster its argument — or to give it the appearance of specificity [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under journalism, newspapers.
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Journalistic ethics and Publishers Weekly
Ed Champion excoriates Karen Holt for writing in Publishers Weekly that includes passages such as this:
There was the time at BEA when I wanted to ask Margaret Atwood a few questions so she took my arm and steered me toward some chairs in the corner (”Margaret Atwood is touching me!”). There was my trip to [...]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under journalism, magazines, publishing.
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Embedded journalism
The LAT covers the Mirthala Salinas affair.
UPDATE, Nov. 18, 2007: The above link (now removed) has gone bad. Here’s a summary of the story.
Posted: August 5th, 2007 under journalism, newspapers.
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