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In the Jer­u­s­alem Post, Mitchell Barak calls for an Israeli Al Jaz­eera English.

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Whatever ones views of the rights and wrongs, Israel’s media oper­a­tion to accom­pany its Gaza offens­ive has been an object les­son in the uses and lim­it­a­tions of War 2.0. Talk­ing to a senior Middle East­ern dip­lo­mat yes­ter­day, and to a friend report­ing from (or stuck) in Jer­u­s­alem, there is a (very) grudging — respect is the wrong […]

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Frank Rich sees the future…

September 1, 2008

NYT colum­nist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the ‘blovi­at­ors’ cov­er­ing the Obama cam­paign. But in the course of his mus­ings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. : Journ­al­ists are still Amer­ic­ans — even if much of our audi­ence doubts that — and in this time of grave uncer­tainty about […]

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Data is dead

June 24, 2008

Some in journ­al­ism won­der if the story as an aggreg­ate of verbal fact and reac­tion is los­ing its hold (See Kevin Marsh — The Story Is Dead). Now Brad King has weighed in with an inter­est­ing con­tri­bu­tion — 5 Reas­ons The Story Is Dead.

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