Category: Journalism

  • Info-pimps

    Is the great new term from Chicago Tribune writer Charles Madigan. You can read his full column here, but here’s how he explains his newly minted expression: I am angry at the sneering use of the phrase “mainstream media,” by bloggers. I am also upset by the obvious decline in standards that would allow a…

  • The ‘newshole’

    I love the Project for Excellence in Journalism – I just wish they would find another name for…the ‘newshole’.

  • The future of advertising…

    I have seen the future of advertising. It sucks. Perhaps it slurps and burps too. Anheuser-Busch has created a dedicated TV channel for Budweiser. It’s betting that lovers of the gassy brew will not want to watch TV sports, internet pornography and Jon Stewart. Instead they’ll watch three attractive young women perform makeovers on the…

  • Cake monkey

    The Guardian‘s Media Monkey was equally unimpressed with Jon Manel‘s cake activity: With the judging process about to begin for this year’s Sony awards, Monkey’s attention turns to Today reporter Jon Manel’s effort last week, in which he illustrated a piece about the NHS budgetary “cake” … with a cake. In Manel’s defence, he has…