From Steve Safran at Lost Remote (nod to BuzzMachine for the link), who offers a ton of eternal truths that seem strikingly familiar to the stuff we see every day. THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES Those who believe there is…
Category: Industry commentary
Latest plagiarism news
Slate tries to figure who that New York Times guy actually plagiarized.
L.A. Times M.E. on the Arnie groping story
From the New Orleans Times Picayune: The paper made the call to publish the story in spite of an “unwritten rule” in journalism that it’s unfair to print bombshells as campaigns wind down, Baquet said. But he viewed the alternative…
I got your 2 percent right here buddy
Rhetorica points to a guy’s suggestion that 2 percent of the front page be set aside for stuff that builds civil society & such. Let’s do the math: A full-size newspaper page is 21.5 inches tall; six columns is 129…
Fine, then
Jon Fine has been covering the Rosie trial for Advertising Age. He’s also dating the boss of his interviewer at Media Bistro. Because, you know, that’s how things work in the New York mediaverse. Here’s Fine on the realities of…
Whitey in the Boondocks
Poison Kitchen points to Michael Moore’s loving tribute to “The Boondocks,” which, I have to admit, is about the only bitingly funny cartoon on most funny pages these days. Moore uses the piece to pound home his favorite political points…
Hey Mister ‘I Never Vote’
Jay Rosen says it’s time to get a clue. Rosen gangs up on Len Downie, the Washington Post editor who keeps making these iffy claims that news is news and there’s no politics in the reporting of the mighty Post.…
How to get rich in newspapers
It used to be you had to spend your entire career in Milwaukee, where the Journal’s employee-ownership setup made fatcats out of lots of ordinary newsies. Those days are gone now, because the company’s publicly held and the money that…
Take your medicine
And read up on the lessons the Arab version of CNN is supposed to be teaching us.
Imagine that…
A music mag for people over 30. Mr. Light said virtually all the current music publications are youth-oriented, without much of interest to someone over 30 who purchases boxed sets by artists like Bob Dylan and samples the work of…