links for 2008-07-25

It is not for the rich and the fam­ous, the power­ful and the influ­en­tial, to dic­tate the news agenda, just because they have the money and the means to gag a free press.

“[V]isiting the woman who recently gave birth to the out-of-wedlock child of a mar­ried cam­paign aide is com­pletely OK…meeting her at a … hotel in the early hours … run­ning … and hid­ing in a hotel bath­room for 15 minutes … is not com­pletely OK.”

“[T]raditional news media used to have some­thing of a lock on the dis­sem­in­a­tion of inform­a­tion, and allowed them­selves to be con­vinced that they had a bizarre duty to fil­ter even accur­ate inform­a­tion of interest to their audiences…”

The head of a prom­in­ent can­cer research insti­tute issued an unpre­ced­en­ted warn­ing to his fac­ulty and staff Wed­nes­day: Limit cell phone use because of the pos­sible risk of cancer.

“Brideshead Revis­ited” appeared dur­ing … the “dead years” of tele­vi­sion. Long-form nar­rat­ive had yet to wield its power­ful influ­ence on the medium. Like the bud­ding food revolu­tion, it was a gate­way to new kinds of con­sumed sophistication…

Real Karad­zic web­site is:- www.psy-help-energy.com

[N]ewspapers already make money from the traffic Google sends their way — but do you think, given a $100 mil­lion prize, they won’t try to double-dip?

[A]s bad as print advert­ising has been, local papers aren’t com­pet­ing well for local online ad dol­lars, either.

Nobody in tele­vi­sion news in the UK — the land of low journ­al­istic stand­ards, remem­ber — would get away with such a hein­ous crime. Heads would roll.

Newly merged media con­glom­er­ate Thom­son Reu­ters is pre­par­ing to launch a busi­ness tele­vi­sion news chan­nel to rival that of Bloomberg and CNBC.

For the second time this year, Israel has decided to act against Al-Jazeera, after the influ­en­tial TV sta­tion held a party for released Lebanese child-killer Samir Kun­tar, The Jer­u­s­alem Post has learned.

The back-channel chat­ter on Google’s Wikipedia-like Knol data­base, which opened to pub­lic edit­ing today, is simple: Google plans to use Knol to replace Wiki­pe­dia, then serve ads on it