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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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U.S. columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson on TV news: In my lifetime, we’ve gone from all the news that’s fit to print to making any old story fit the available format. If you have an hour-long news-magazine show, stretch that unsolved murder to fill the hour. If you have a headline- news show and no real…
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Local news 2
The burning chair story posted here yesterday obviously appealed to someone at The Times too…it’s up on their site and there were a couple of newsint.co.uk click-throughs yesterday. Information really is a commodity…
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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…