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U.S. columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson on TV news: In my lifetime, we’ve gone from all the news that’s fit to print to making any old story fit the available format. If you have an hour-long news-magazine show, stretch that unsolved murder to fill the hour. If you have a headline- news show and no real…
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Demablogs 2 – journalism strikes back
DEMABLOG: “To accept that these are anonymous Iraqis blogging for McClatchy, a notoriously anti-Bushie news service, requires a profound leap a faith. You must believe that every lefty preconception about the war and its aftermath turned out to be true.”I mentioned McClatchy‘s Inside Iraq blog back in January. It’s where the U.S. newspaper group’s Iraqi…
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In case you haven’t caught up with it yet, there’s a hilarious response to this story from Cumbria’s Westmorland Gazette published back in January. The comments thread takes on a life of its own, but first the news: Chair destroyedBy Andrew DanielsRead Comments (74) AN OFFICE chair was destroyed after it was set on fire…