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Newsies in the movies
Here’s a fun exercise for a Friday: Favorite movie scenes featuring journalists. The scene where the reporters all run into phonebooths and knock the phonebooths over has got to be up there (is that from “Airplane” or one of the…
Blogging isn’t journalism
Thanks for settling that once and for all, Jay.
Why Travis is mad about Bob
Travis Smith raves on a speech by Bob Cauthorn, the San Francisco Chronicle’s former online boss. Bob is a Journalist. He’s a reporter. He said that he still looks out at the city of San Francisco and thinks about all…
My baseball blog-in: is it legal?
Dan Gillmor posted a link to my proposed blogger day at the ballgame, to which a commenter raised the following point: Wouldn’t that be illegal? Are you allowed to broadcast updates on the game without express written permission of Major…
dot-d@sh, etc
Better-late-than-never award for adding @ to Morse code. “As far as we know, this is the first change to the code in at least 60 years,” said Gary Fowlie, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication Union, the arm of the…
Sick of those noisy cicadas?
They shut right up after you swallow them.
Why the Doc shouldn’t gamble
From HST’s latest ESPN column. It was our old neighbor Omar, who still owes me $90,000 from a previous gambling disaster, which ended tragically in a long-ago bet involving his little sister and the New York Yankees and a rash…
We’re supposed to be entertaining?
George Kelly sent along this Boston Globe story revealing: … Hollywood is turning once again to the news business in search of laughs, drama, or just a story to tell. While O’Donnell hopes to finish a pilot for his show…
Editor’s blog for India news
Anthony D’Costa is the deputy managing editor with India Abroad, a weekly for people from India who live in the United States. His Danto News blog is just getting started so it has some rough edges, but he’s already taking…