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links for 2008-07-21
How to search for information within social networking sites | Journalism.co.uk What it says on the tin… (tags: MySpace privacy Google reporting social-networking search media journalism internet facebook ethics tips writing) Stop the new FISA: allowing the new surveillance law to stand would seriously cripple our free press | Los Angeles Times This law will…
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Britain seen from the US
Thomson Reuters boss Tom Glocer has a frank posting from Sun Valley (your own private Idaho). Glocer, who was based in London until recently, is now back in the US and tells it like it is on the real value of the “special relationship”: The US has pursued a unilateralist approach to world affairs over…
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links for 2008-07-20
Review: ‘A Very British Gangster’ – Crime and Journalism | NYTimes.com “Embedded for three years with the notorious Noonan crime family … Donal MacIntyre — the British answer to Geraldo Rivera — became a willing conduit for the outsize egos and self-serving confessions of its members.” Geraldo? (tags: donal-macintyre crime journalism)
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Shameless self promotion
I would be failing in my duty of shameless self promotion if I didn’t draw your attention to this nugget from Jack Shafer in the Washington Post: