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Radical transparency
Jeff Jarvis gives his take on Chris Anderson‘s idea of radical transparency for journalism. I’m not so convinced. I’ve seen radical transparency before. Remember restaurants in the 1990s? Everywhere you went you could see into the kitchen. Instead of your meal emerging from a pair of swing doors, you could see dinner taking shape amid…
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Diana
Mohammed al-Fayed has been on NBC’s Today Show denouncing the Stevens’ inquiry into the Paris crash that killed his son, Princess Diana, and driver Henri Paul. Stevens, says al-Fayed, was blackmailed by the security services to produce a whitewash. Al-Fayed has lost a son, and as a human being he deserves our sympathy. But the…
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What makes reporters tick? Readers respond…
Byron Calame‘s analysis of the motivations of journalists has received some interesting responses from readers of the New York Times. Here are my two faves: The New York Times’s business editors would ridicule any essay by a chief executive that purported to show that business executives’ motivations are largely altruistic based on a survey of…
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Disappointed by the pace of success?
Final Bush-Blair presser post and my favourite Bushism – “I am disappointed by the pace of success.” Here’s the basic division of opinion on Nick Robinson. 1) GO GET ‘EM Chicago Tribune: We American reporters aren’t sure why our British cousins don’t stand when they ask questions of our president or their prime minister like…