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Anti-social media 2
John Robinson’s blog has an excellent take on social media and journalism from one of his correspondents (in the original sense, for once). Here’s his: Visit the letters to the editor blog and you’ll find some commentary on the letters of the day and a good deal of social conversation by the frequent visitors who…
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Disease mongering
BRIAN WILLIAMS If you watch this newscast with any frequency, then you’ve seen it – this ad … for a medication for something called restless leg syndrome. A lot of us had frankly never heard of the condition but we figured people must suffer terribly from it for there to be a medication to treat…
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Firing all your editorial staff and asking viewers for video? Say a big welcome to loser generated content.
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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just…