adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Enron and the curse of contrarianism

    NOCERA on GLADWELL: To be sure, his central point is largely correct, though hardly the contrarian revelation he makes it out to be: Wall Street’s corps of analysts, hedge fund operators, ratings agencies and all the rest should really have paid more attention to Enron’s public disclosures.Nice piece from the NYT‘s Joe Nocera unpicking Malcolm…

  • Saddam’s execution video 2

    Jeff Jarvis carries on the Saddam execution video debate here. Jeff is on the optimistic wing of the technology debate. This is some of what he has to say on the subject: We are in the age of news served raw. And it doesn’t get much rawer than the cell-phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution…

  • Saddam’s execution video

    Such is the nature of old media that Saddam’s execution video still spins the discussion wheels. The UK’s Independent sees it as evidence of a massive shift in the ability of individuals to influence the news agenda…etc. etc. The video actually tells us just two things about the hanging: It was badly organized Executions aren’t…

  • As Andrew Grant-Adamson has pointed to the Indy‘s blog drought, here’s a piece from the AJR on blogs and newspapers.