{"id":1461,"date":"2008-09-24T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T20:14:26","slug":"unrequired-reading-23908-to-24908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading-23908-to-24908\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading {23.9.08 to 24.9.08}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1356\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading.jpg 480w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading-100x42.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading-200x85.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>This is some of what&#8217;s caught my attention in the past hours:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addingnoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/science-journalism-and-methane-time.html\"><strong>Science journalism and the methane &#8220;time bomb&#8221; | Adding Noughts in Vain<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;If you want to make a splash as a science journalist though you should get some hapless fool of a scientist to talk to you about their recent work prior to acceptance, prior even to writing a scientific paper.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rttnews.com\/ArticleView.aspx?Id=719752&amp;SMap=1\"><strong>RDF interim results | RTTNews<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; RDF Media Group Plc (RDF.L: News ) announced its interim financial results for the six months ended 31 July 2008, reporting a net loss of \u00a31.32 million or 3.2 pence per share&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthemedia.com\/bigbusiness\/failed24092008.htm\"><strong>Free News On The Internet A Failed Business Model?<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Most forecasts say that even in five years time the Internet will provide no more than 13% of total revenue for most newspapers, and that won\u2019t be so much because of increasing web revenues as it will be from decreasing print revenues.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/sep\/24\/channelfive.tvnews\"><strong>Channel Five News to get makeover for male audience | Mediaguardian.co.uk<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;What I want to look at is can we make it look a bit different and can we tap into a different viewership.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.feedsportal.com\/c\/367\/f\/5716\/s\/1f3af8c\/l\/0Lblogs0Bjournalism0O0Ceditors0C0Dp0F30A99\/story01.htm\"><strong>Undercover Soldier: why didn\u2019t the Beeb open up the debate online? | Journalism.co.uk<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; It\u2019s a story that has seen a hive of online activity: the BBC puts a new reporter in the army for six months (he\u2019s never worked in the media before); puts out a documentary, based on mainly anecdotal evidence; the army suspends five people (not clear how many were a result, if any, of the investigation); the mainstream media reports on the whole thing (Telegraph report linked here, as an example)&#8230;Yet nowhere on the BBC website is there anywhere to post a comment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/mediafile\/2008\/09\/23\/new-york-times-bulks-up-on-business-tech\/\"><strong>New York Times bulks up on business, tech | Reuters.com<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;[T]he journalism business might be in trouble, but business journalism is only getting hotter.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some of what&#8217;s caught my attention in the past hours:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unrequired-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}