Former SNL writer, activist, and comedian, Joe Bodolai leaves a stirring suicide note on his blog.
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So much for journalism
For most of us you are either for or against CBC but it doesn’t matter what you think of the CBC, you can’t pretend to think this qualifies as journalism by the London Free Press. CBC bureaucrats, production people, and journalists are feeling a little cramped in their 23-storey broadcast palace in Montreal. Earlier this [...]
The News Corp. Coverup
This is from the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s structured in a way that you want to read and watch all of it. My question is how did everyone not see this coming? You have a news organization that has made it’s name being intellectually dishonest and selling sensational stories and now they seem shocked that [...]
The world’s first newspaper website?
Back at the turn of the century, the Boston Globe would hang large handwritten signs out front with headlines which looked like the world’s first newspaper website/blog. They eventually added a sports website, with streaming audio. RSS hadn’t caught on yet so the readers had to actually visit the site. This photo was taken during [...]
Why not link?
Doc Searls asks why major news outlets don’t link to original sources? The reasons I’ve usually heard for not linking, or for only linking to internal pages, is that the journal’s site “needs” to be “sticky,” to “drive traffic” past ads, and to maximize the time spent by readers on the site. (Nobody defends the [...]
What’s it like to write for the New York Times
Neil Strauss vs. the New York Times copy editor. Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. What’s wrong with it? COPYEDITOR: It’s about oral sex. The whole article hinges on that lyric. COPYEDITOR: If you want, I [...]
The New York Times paywall and the future of journalism
Good editorial in the New York Times about why the New York Times has been quiet about their coming paywall. In it there is this interesting tidbit: The stakes for The Times, which like other newspaper companies has seen major declines in print advertising revenues, are enormous. I asked Mr. Morton to rate, on a [...]
The New York Times Meets Dooce
The paper of record profiles Heather Armstrong. Here is how it started. She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to [...]
