Olive Press enlists a 20something friend to explain “Sex and the City.” I’m linking this here only because my employer, like yours, covered this empty vessel of a TV show as if it were the passing of an era or…
Paging the Newsdesigner
Newsdesigner promises to start showing favorite front pages from Newseum. Can’t remember the last time I did anything that showed up on 1A. Sometimes I wonder how much better our papers would be if we put as much effort into…
Who did Dean in?
The press, of course, judging by the feedback sent to the Oregonian’s public editor. Sure, a certain amount of this is the Dean brigades looking for scapegoats. And I didn’t notice them complaining about all the fawning coverage that made…
A lightbulb moment
So I stopped by Tim Porter‘s site tonight and noted his excerpts of a seminar given by Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen, who spoke at a techie teach-in down in San Diego. They were saying all the usual…
Lots o’ links
Nicole Stockdale on essential Ralph Nader details Oregonian’s public editor on why they ran a picture of a mom grieving the death of her son killed in Iraq. File under: Public doesn’t want to know the cost of this war…
ACES seminar preview
Leonard Witt, a journalism educator at Kennesaw State University, wondered what I was talking about when I titled my ACES seminar “The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Weblogs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known It.” So he interviewed me…