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Should news inform or entertain?
Munir Umrani, at the Blogging Journalist, picks up on the debate over news – should it inform or entertain? Let me put that question into a news genre and see if it works… Should sports news entertain and inform – or both? Results, columnists, previews, “exclusives” – match reports and analysis. The genre has it…
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Demablogs 3 – academic papers
Where do you think the quotes below come from? Some chippy demablogger, with a grudge against mainstream media? Have a read, as it criticizes: the inequities and limitations of the international journalism provided by “traditional media.” [news agencies] manufacture a bland and homogeneous, but still ideologically distinctive, view of the world… [news providers] are demonstrably…
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Demablogs 2 – journalism strikes back
DEMABLOG: “To accept that these are anonymous Iraqis blogging for McClatchy, a notoriously anti-Bushie news service, requires a profound leap a faith. You must believe that every lefty preconception about the war and its aftermath turned out to be true.”I mentioned McClatchy‘s Inside Iraq blog back in January. It’s where the U.S. newspaper group’s Iraqi…
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The latest Holovaty project is on Bill Clinton‘s speaking engagements. Interestingly Bill’s cheapest job in the UK was for the LSE back in 2001 – a snip at just over US$28k…compare that to his normal US$125-250k (in case you wanted to book him for a summer party).