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Jon Gilbert’s ‘friendly fire’ report
Disclosure: ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert is a friend and former colleague. Some of the YouTube comments on Jon’s piece regarding the journalism are below. Of 87 comments at time of posting, only four dealt with the reporting of Eldon Anderson‘s remarks: …one question is, how many people that sounded intelligent and onhappy [sic] with…
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Anna Nicole Smith
REUTERS “The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web. Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.”The coverage of Anna Nicole Smith‘s untimely death has some (e.g. Reuters‘ Eric Auchard) snorting. Hard-hearted old swine that…
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A regulator writes…
What if journalists were painted with the same weary skepticism they brush over others? You don’t have to imagine. Earlier this week former Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth (crazy name etc.), previewed a conference on media reform at Columbia’s J-School. Before your eyelids snap firmly shut, here’s a little outside perspective on us as…
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Jonathan Lethem in Harpers gets himself knotted up in the twisty world of plagiarism and sampling…(hat-tips we call them in the blogosphere)