“Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper’s site… You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion.”

CBS commissioned a study showing that watching full-length shows online won’t destroy television viewership, and it will attract a younger audience.

“A man at the front of the restaurant is screaming at a waiter and gesticulating wildly. The snacks on the bar aren’t a four-course meal!”

Middle East diplomacy: “A UK-based Arabic newspaper has apologised to the prime minister of the Gulf state of Qatar after it admitted printing three “wholly untrue” articles about him secretly visiting Israel.”

“The obituaries, still found in the local section, will run in bigger type…” Read about your dead friends – only easier!

“Spot.Us believes that journalists should pitch the public and that if members of the public band together they too can have a freelance budget.”

Ofcom’s logic is that “the link between human activity and global warming… became settled before March 2007”. This being so, it says, climate science was not “controversial” at the time of broadcast…

This is the first mass marketing medium ever that isn’t supported by ads… It wasn’t invented by business people, and it doesn’t exist to help your company make money.

‘”Half the sins of the Bush administration were committed because they were so successful at hiding their actions from the media.” Wrong. Half the sins of the Bush administration were committed because of a profoundly warped sense of what was and is good for the nation.’

“In recent weeks, anchors on the Fox affiliate in Las Vegas, KVVU, sit with cups of McDonald’s iced coffee on their desks during the news-and-lifestyle portion of their morning show. The anchors rarely touch the cups.”

Not nearly enough, but…

I’ve given Facebook long enough to demonstrate any kind of tangible professional value for me. And, together, we have failed.