adrian monck

Month: July 2008

  • links for 2008-07-09

    Why Most Who Lose Their Jobs Don’t Get Unemployment Benefits | Robert Reich [M]ost people who lose their job these days don’t qualify for any unemployment benefits at all. How can this be? Simple. In order to be eligible, most states require you to have been working in the job you lost full time, and…

  • Journalism, apathy, and distrust

    Checking out Adrienne Russell’s review of Charlie Beckett‘s excellent SuperMedia, I came across this nugget:

  • BBC guidance on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

    Cryptome carries an email apparently sent to BBC staff over reporting of councils and their use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act:

  • links for 2008-07-08

    Murdoch Lifer Mans Main Street Journal | Advertising Age “Mathematical equations do not work in media,” [Hinton] said. What works in media is: If the reader and the advertiser don’t like what they’re seeing, then they ain’t going to be coming back.” (tags: news-corp wall-street-journal) Is PropPublica’s shaky start an omen? | MiamiHerald.com [W]hy was…