The Revolution Will Not be Deferred
It’s not exactly Dewey Defeats Truman, but you can file this headline in the Never Mind department.
Posts Under ‘Journalism’ Category
I Guess Monckton Wasn't Available
Future J-School students yearning for a career at Fox News take note. Here’s how reporting 101 is done at the Fair & Balanced network.
Yesterday's Zany Headlines
Why should you be deprived because I didn’t get to them in time. Without further ado, from Salon: Manchin will sit on Energy Committee, shoot at environmental bills From the indispensable Romenesko: Zell: ‘I just don’t need to be the media’s bitch anymore’ And finally, from the Washington Post, (in another decade this would have…Continue Reading…
When Free Media Labor Goes Bad
Oh, the irony. A labor journalist who prostituted himself for free to The Huffington Post is peeved they canned him.
Tale of Two ABC Climate News Reports
What a difference a year makes. Here’s Diane Sawyer on ABC News nearly one year ago, reporting on the connection between global warming and record snowfall: Here’s Sawyer on Friday, reporting on the connection between global warming and the “extreme winter” much of the nation is experiencing: The only difference I can tell is that…Continue Reading…
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Last week, two tireless bloggers who are often highly critical of the media had opposite reactions to ABC, one of the major broadcast networks in the U.S. Joe Romm praised this segment on the recent floods in Australia and Brazil as one of the best climate change stories ever to appear on a major network’s…Continue Reading…
Talk to the Hand
Dear readers, you have spoken. And what I’m hearing based on the silence greeting my (admittedly vaguely sketched out) idea for a Bipartisan Climate Project is this. Now I’m willing to eat my humble pie, but I’m also prompted to place this stinker of a comment generator in some larger perspective. This also gives me…Continue Reading…
The Climate Mirror
It turns out that readers at popular climate blogs on opposite ends of the spectrum have similar complaints about the media. From a commenter at WUWT: The LA Times has been a socialist rag, suitable mostly for lining the bottom of a parrot’s cage, for decades. When their marketers used to call to ask me…Continue Reading…
Dept of Never Mind
Joe Romm has a
Cry Me a River
Media bashing is a popular sport of both the Left and Right. It always has been, but in the blog/twitter/200 cable channels age, journalism has become a proxy battleground for everyone with an ax to grind, as this 2008 NYT story explains: The blur of new media creates fresh opportunities for attack, counterattack, counter-counterattacks, odd…Continue Reading…