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Publicly-funded journalism in the United States?
Yesterday, Wall Street wiz Steve Rattner used the unlikely platform of the Wall Street Journal to appeal for publicly-funded journalism in the United States: We could create a pool of money (possibly from a license fee similar to how the BBC is funded). News organizations with an expensive but important project in mind could apply…
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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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Local news and the KKK
I keep tabs on John Robinson‘s excellent blog from an American local newspaper. I’d quite forgotten that the KKK was still really in business, but John has a reminder. And a reminder too that local journalism in America is tough. To get the gist you’ll have to read this post first. Yes, I know I…