How the news media manipulate news as a normal part of business “It’s a bizarre world where flacks are more vigilant than reporters when it comes to trying not to mislead readers.” – JOHN COOK, Gawker “The Spitzer Files: How the New York Times and the Press Serviced Client No. 9” The American Left’s favorite [...]
November 10, 2009
I generally loathe the winter holidays; winter in general, in fact. I prefer with no exceptions 105-degree weather over any day with a temperature below 60. And winter in Reno is bizarrely unpredictable. We can have more than a foot of snow one day and be wearing shorts in 60-degree sun the next. In the [...]
October 2, 2009
I vividly remember my journalism professor tell us undergrads in the early ‘90s that news reporting was the business of alcoholics. Meaning: The profession tends to have a disproportionate number of those who imbibe adult beverages far too often. What reminded me of this was reading the local weekly (online) yesterday. The editor wrote a [...]
September 25, 2009
It’s been a bad week for the social media gurus. First Mark Schaefer called them out collectively, and some individually, for constant backslapping and creating, inadvertently or not, a country club atmosphere where eveything is fine and cozy. Sadly, he’s correct. And the pseudo gurus were none-too-quick to jump in with defenses of their own. [...]
September 18, 2009
The sad aspect of downsized newsrooms means that news quality and breadth of coverage suffers. Along with this, as traditional news grapples with how to handle the social aspect of online media, the distortions of information occur to rampant degrees. Anonymous commenting appears to have become the sustaining mechanism of online advertising for many news [...]
November 27, 2009
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