adrian monck

Author: Adrian Monck

  • “We did not think it was news we were inclined to pursue.”

    Even I blanched slightly when McClatchy VP Howard Weaver kicked off a post – I believe I’d fire any reporter who wasted a chance to question Gov. Sarah Palin by asking a single question about pregnancies, DUIs or thuggish boyfriends.

  • Journalism and democracy…again

    Mark Day in The Australian rails against the Fairfax job cuts – wait for the familiar punchline.

  • Stakeholder syndrome

    If you want an illustration of the brilliance and fragility of the blogosphere, take a look at Ofcomwatch. It’s a blog about the world of UK communications regulation which, let’s face it, is about as effervescent as a day-old glass of Alkaseltzer, and the bulk of its posts are the heroic work of Russ Taylor.

  • Frank Rich sees the future…

    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…