I’ve been growling all week at the stream of stories and blog posts dissecting the business angle to the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post. As if that were all that mattered about this news. But one post by Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor and new media maven, got me barking mad. Now I generally…Continue Reading…
Romania my get even tougher on witches That’s journalistic artistry.
Charlie Petit flags an interesting divergence in coverage of a recent NGO report on mercury pollution. Actually, it’s a case where one environmental reporter seems to have done a little more–um, reporting.
The big news and the big picture is captured by Anthony Shadid in his NYT dispatch, starting with this pitch perfect opening line: The future of the Arab world, perched between revolt and the contempt of a crumbling order, was fought for in the streets of downtown Cairo on Wednesday. His piece goes on to…Continue Reading…
It’s not exactly Dewey Defeats Truman, but you can file this headline in the Never Mind department.
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.
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…
Oh, the irony. A labor journalist who prostituted himself for free to The Huffington Post is peeved they canned him.
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…
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…