LA Times: Mayor’s girlfriend is placed on leave. Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo placed newscaster Mirthala Salinas on paid leave Thursday while it carries out an investigation into whether she breached journalistic ethics by having a relationship with someone she covered: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Posts under ‘Media Criticism’
Critic: Back to the Future for Newspapers
Jack Shafer (Slate): After the staff cuts, will the newspapers of the future look like the newspapers from the past?
Techno-Optimism About Journalism
Mark Glaser (PBS MediaShift): 10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism.
Annals of Embarrassments to Journalism
Jack Shafer (Slate): Apple suck-up watch: Watching the press froth over a new cell phone. No drop of milk oozes from the Apple teat without a crowd of journalists gathering to swallowing it up.
Amateurish Pro Journalism Promotes Dishonest Book
It’s disappointing to see the new book, “Cult of the Amateur,” getting so much attention from media organizations — but sadly not surprising. As noted here and elsewhere, the book is rife with falsehoods and misrepresentations, but journalists aren’t bothering to do any homework. As they do so often, they just conduct interviews, giving a […]
Blair on Media, Media on Blair
The Guardian: Right sermon, wrong preacher. There is an easy response to Tony Blair’s lecture on the failings of the media, and some will seize on it. It is to accuse the prime minister – the master (some will say) of half truths, evasion and spin – of breathtaking hypocrisy and an almost clinical lack […]
Journalistic Malfeasance at Republican "Debate"
Paul Krugman of the New York Times nails it today in a column (unfortunately behind the Times’ pay-wall) lambasting the Washington political press corps for its utter blindness at the Republican presidential “debate” a few days ago. (I put debate in quotes because those events, with so many candidates, so little time and an electorate […]
Bringing Public Works to the Public
Carl Malamud and Marshall Rose have created public.resource.org, a new nonprofit dedicated to the creation of public works projects on the Internet. Our initial area of focus is increasing the flow of information in both directions between the U.S. government and people. The site asks people to buy information from government archives — information that […]
Amateurish "Cult of the Amateur"
Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture, was officially published this week. It is a shabby and dishonest treatment of an important topic. We do face many problems in a digital age, including several of the general issues Keen raises. (I wrote about many of them in […]
Some Good Advice for Newspaper People
Invisible Inkling: 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head. My favorite line: “Stop whining.”