The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November. Take…
Blogging and the Pulitzers, cont.
Lively discussion happening in the comments for last night’s post about whether bloggers could win Pulitzers. Weighing in: blogging heavyweight Dave Winer vs. muckraking heavyweight Derek Willis.
Our brush with the P.P.
Not long after I got to work on Monday, a note went out to the newsroom to gather at the photo desk. Three of our photographers were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, and the winners were just…
Sunshine superpage
Here’s a page linking to the open-records laws of all 50 states. Link via Jeremy over at blocletters.com
Newsdesigner feels the love
The guy put in some major keyboard time tracking how papers played the Fallujah atrocities story, and it’s getting him noticed.
H.S. Thompson in S. Africa
Well, not really. He’s merely mentioned in this column from Business Day, a Johannesburg business pub. The story laments the lack of frivolous contestants in the nation’s elections, and points to you-know-who as an example to the voters of the…