adrian monck

Month: May 2008

  • Good old-fashioned reporting

    Good reporting, the old-fashioned way. Thanks to Mike Hills for the heads up on this video. The Chicago Tribune Guide to Newspaper Reporting (circa 1955) [KevinP1468].

  • HRC vs Obama: a finger in the air

    Just been hearing the results of the Thomson Reuters/World Editors Forum Newsroom barometer polls presented by John Zogby. At the end, Zogby was asked for his take on the US Presidential elections. For “entertainment value only” he offered us McCain vs Obama, with Obama by a wafer thin margin. I pass it on in the…

  • NYT Pentagon piece fails to make a splash…

    Pew has a piece looking at the impact of David Barstow’s epic NYT piece on the Pentagon’s tummy tickling of retired generals. The conclusion? No one really picked it up.Well, there was an issue for TV to address. But really, I remain pretty much of the view expressed here. Barstow’s work was impressive, but are…

  • The bumpy world of Flat Earth News

    Nick Davies has a nice telling of the saga of the Haut de Garenne “body” hunt. But he can’t resist using it to bang the drum for his claim that PR now shapes journalism, falling into the trap of – in his words – “fitting facts into fictional templates.” “Like so many false and distorted…