Posts under ‘News’

Michael Kinsley: Black and White and Dead All Over. And so, at last, there are two piles of paper: a short one of stuff to read, and a tall one of stuff to throw away. Unfortunately, many people are taking the logic of this process one step further. Instead of buying a paper in order […]

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Facing suit, anonymous blogger lifts his mask. Lawyers who filed the suit say that Web logs and other new media should be held to the same standards of accountability as traditional media and journalism. Brodbkorb, a former operative for the Minnesota Republican Party, pledges to protect his source and to keep his website […]

Jeff Jarvis, taking note of the horrible mis-reporting of the West Virginia mine deaths last night, says: The next time I hear someone being haughty about professional news vs. citizen’s news, I’ll remind them of the West Virginia tragedy, where news traveled ahead of the facts, where everyone was horribly wrong. Let’s all remember that, […]

The World Economic Forum is going to do some “Broadcasting, Podcasting, Webcasting and Blogging” at its annual meeting later this month. Too bad they’re not putting everything out for public consumption, but this is progress. Last year’s meeting produced a controversy when former CNN honcho Eason Jordan apparently said some stupid things (Washington Post) in […]

The Center for Media and Democracy is looking for Citizen Journalists To Bust More Jack Abramoffs, and cites some digging that took place on the center’s valuable SourceWatch site, a wiki where people can add what they know about matters relating to PR, lobbying and other activities designed to move votes and money. I’d call […]

BBC: BBC News opens archives to public. The scheme allows people within the UK to watch, download, edit and mix the clips and programming for non-commercial programming. Too bad it’s only in the United Kingdom. But it’ll be absolutely fascinating to see how people “remix” these clips, creating works that tell old stories in new […]