Tag: US Journalism

  • What’s that coming over the hill…

    Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes: “…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. Slate‘s…

  • Info-pimps

    Is the great new term from Chicago Tribune writer Charles Madigan. You can read his full column here, but here’s how he explains his newly minted expression: I am angry at the sneering use of the phrase “mainstream media,” by bloggers. I am also upset by the obvious decline in standards that would allow a…

  • The ‘newshole’

    I love the Project for Excellence in Journalism – I just wish they would find another name for…the ‘newshole’.

  • Daniel Pearl’s dad on Al Jaz English

    Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl writes on Al Jazeera English. The thrust of his piece is an attack on Al Jaz Arabic for airing Sunni cleric Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi‘s “Sharia and Life” programme. He uses this forum to preach his new morality to millions of Arabic-speaking viewers, including Hamas operatives,…