When Shirley Sherrod was fired from her USDA administrator job, it was the icing on the cake of journalism’s decline. The abbreviated video clip of her speech to the NAACP—delivered before being hired in her most recent job—had the blogs, media, government officials and White House abuzz…
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Arianna Huffington’s Media Space: Is Traditional Journalism Obsolete?
I’m at the MarketingProfs Digital Mixer in Phoenix, where Arianna Huffington just completed her lunch keynote entitled, “Changing the Brave New World of the ‘New Media’: How Technology is Changing the Way We Think, Learn, Play, Work and Vote.” Before I continue, let me say what a dynamic and…
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TechNewsWorld: The Top 10 News Stories Broken by Bloggers
TechNewsWorld says that bloggers who break news stories ahead of mainstream media appear “to be a new and emerging breed of journalist.” Actually, that breed has been evolving over the past 10 years, and the result is nothing short of a sea change in how news and information travels.
I pointed Wal…
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How to Protect Yourself from Being Misquoted
Howard Kurtz’s article about interviews in yesterday’s Washington Post got me thinking about how we can protect ourselves from being misquoted. The bottom line: often you can’t. The best defense is not to say anything stupid, but, as we all know, that’s not always possible. :>)
What should you do …
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Bloggers as ‘Air Guitarists’ of Journalism
In a hateful piece of yellow journalism South African Sunday Times columnist David Bullard skewers bloggers as “people who wouldn’t stand a hope in hell of getting a job in journalism.”
Most blog sites, he rages, “are the air guitars of journalism…. It’s even sadder when someone reads them.”
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