They took a small beating now to avoid risking a worse beating later. Either way, they get bruised and scarred. You have to love the way big-city newspapers are the breast-beating champions of the little guy, except when it comes…
Month: October 2003
Covering the recall coverage
A Stanford professor says print media did a lousy job of covering issues that mattter to families and children. Yeah, but, you know, if Arnie is a groper, our families and children will want to be warned, right? Tim Porter…
Orwell awards nominee
You know, for trying to say war is peace, life is death, etc. The White House says we can’t cover the return of coffins from overseas. Yeah, that should make it go away.
Bob Greene…
… on the Cubs’s meltdown. Note to Bob: it is too a loss. That’s why they keep score.
Danny Pearl’s widow profiled
Washington Post has the story.
N.Y. Times can’t buy a break
Even its typography decisions are being held up up for ridicule. Testy Copy Editors: Don’t waste type telling us about type. Jeff Jarvis: The media exec agrees. (Jarvis may tarnish his standing in the blogger elite, though, for having actual…
The need for feed
Over the weekend I figured out how to do RSS feeds. If you look way down on the right side of this blog you’ll see a link that says “Syndicate this site (XML).” If you click on it, it tries…
A tale of two Timesmen
…Well, former Timesmen. Seems both the New York Times news execs who stepped aside to make the Jayson hooha go away had speaking gigs in the past couple days. Gerald Boyd, speaking to a bunch of newspaper editors, says something…
Meet Jack, the pagination guy
Jack Rosenzweig works for a company called Baseview, which builds pagination systems for small newspapers. Jack started out as a copy editor in New Jersey, and did that for a couple years before getting into pagination 11 years ago. At…
Get Farked
I keep forgetting to link/bookmark Fark.com, which is always cool and frequently hilarious, especially the comments area.