Dan Gillmor on the Pulitzer Prizes: It’s nearly inconceivable that a blogger or even a group of bloggers, lacking the resources of a major news organization (including First Amendment lawyers), would have produced any of these projects. It’s inconceiveable only…
Author: tom
It’s daylight savings’ fault
It was either blogging or sleeping for that hour. I chose sleep. More juicy linkage tomorrow.
Our casualties matter; yours don’t
Why the Fallujah atrocities of last week are considered no big deal in the Mideast. “Who cares?” said Fida Alsha’er, a columnist for a Jordanian women’s magazine. “It’s another example of how American life is considered something very expensive, very…
Introducing the HST Watch
A blogger named Greg suggested I start a Hunter Thompson watch, with links to stories detailing his misadventures. So, I did. If you look down on the “categories” list on the left you’ll see a link to the category page…
Neal Pollack’s blogging again
After several months of silence, nealpollack.com is making noises. The big news is that Neal seems to have abandoned his alter ego, also named Neal Pollack, at least for the purposes of his blog. Alas, that was Neal’s one claim…
Timely rants
Jen’s baggage got lost on the way to Gainesville. Willcopy has had it with gossip posing as entertainment coverage.
To the blogosphere
If you go to all the trouble of creating an April Fools page riffing on Romenesko: Please trouble yourself to make it funny.
On covering barbarism
I’ve had a lump in my throat most of the past 24 hours while trying to make sense of the Iraqi jubilation over the dead, burnt bodies of Americans. I can’t help wonder what moves people to such depravity, what…
Keeping up with Iraqi newsies
Iraq Press Monitor summarizes the latest newspaper stories. It seems reasonably neutral, which is saying something in a place where there’s so little of it. Link via editorsweblog.org.
More of the insufferable
My Banned for Life blog has been busy for the past week or so. Stop by for fresh evidence of stale usage if you haven’t lately.