Posts under ‘Media Criticism’

It’s here — and purports to be what people on the political right see when they read the New York Times. Extremely clever.

Blake Fleetwood (Huffington Post) Media Blood Sport: “Snake”, “Ghoul”, “Prissy Perv”, “Wolf”. It became a game – a blood sport to be played for the greatest entertainment value. The public craves this stuff – the sexual abuse and murder of a blond child beauty queen – and has a pathological need to hate. John Karr […]

The New York Times Names Chandler Burr as Its First-Ever Perfume Critic.

After its ridiculous cover headline claiming that Digg.com’s founder has “made $60 million” — based on valuations, not cashed in for real money, by unnamed people “in the know” — Business Week is still refusing to acknowledge its goof, as Scott Rosenberg’s notes in a trenchant post: Now the magazine can either publish a correction, […]

This one in the Times of London — “Unique film set ‘wiped out’ in 007 blaze disaster” — transcends idiocy.

Finally, finally, some newspapers are linking systematically outside their own empires.

The New Yorker covers, in its usual depth, Wikipedia.

A really, really annoying online advertising technique…

ABC News discusses citizen media, but worries too much about reliability.

The pay was lousy, the bosses showed no loyalty to the workers, etc., etc. Read about it here.