Greg Sargent has an excellent breakdown of the public relations campaign to make it look like the surge is working and how the media has enabled it. This sort of thing really is a life or death issue. The longer this type of crap goes on, the more we’re dying over there.
This is not a [...]
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We’re winning the Iraq War Surge Media Campaign in the U.S. But still losing the war.
Posted in Bush, Journalism, Media, War, memes, politics on September 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Your local news with the latest on the weather, traffic, and how to solicit gay sex in public restrooms
Posted in Broadcasting, Family Values, Journalism, Media, Republicans, Sex, Television, politics on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
CBS13 Sacremento in covering the Larry Craig gay sex scandal actually roleplays how to solicit gay sex in a public bathroom. Hilarious. God bless local news.
If reporters would just lift quotes directly from press releases, this would never be an issue …
Posted in Journalism, Media on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s an interesting discussion over at Ezra Klein’s for anyone who’s ever been a reporter or been interested in reporting. The impetus was this post at Penquins on the Equator:
I was rather surprised to learn, for instance, that TNR’s fact-checkers don’t check quotes with subjects; they just check quotes against the writers’ notes, which strikes [...]
Owners vs. Journalists – Winner? Everyone.
Posted in Bloggers, FoxNews, Free Speech, Journalism, Media, Media Ownership, Media Policy, New Media on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes the questions raised in a legal battle bear only passing resemblance to the facts of a case. Neat abstract legal principles are extrapolated from messy realities and the court rules on the principles, often times emphasizing and embellishing certain facts over others in order to make a point.
So I don’t know exactly what’s going [...]
IP Democracy blogger proposes reading comprehension, citizenry and lie-detector tests before allowing commenters to respond
Posted in Internet, Journalism on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last week, Google NewsBlog announced:
Starting this week, we’ll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist… We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Our long-term vision [...]
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy
Posted in Journalism, New York City, Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Via Lawyers, Guns, and Money.
People who know me know that I hate the general level of incompetence and sheer stupidity of what passes for journalism nowadays. I subscribe to the radical belief that articles should be informative, filled with facts, identify sources of information, acknowledge bias when it exists, and unequivocally state when someone is [...]
Making that choice a choice
Posted in Democrats, Feminism, Framing, Journalism, Reproductive Rights on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times has an article today titled “Democrats shift approach on abortion.” Here is how it opens.
Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have begun to adopt some of the language and policy goals of the antiabortion movement.
The rest of the [...]
Priorities
Posted in Journalism, Media, Pop Culture, Snarking on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sloooow news day.
Oh, sure, there was that debate last night.
The Attorney General is testifying before the Senate amidst numerous constitutional controversies.
Six medical workers in Libya were finally freed after 8 years.
And there’s that war somewhere over there. And over there. And maybe, possibly, eventually over there.
But isn’t there something else we can talk about? Something, [...]
“We only have room for the right wing.”
Posted in Journalism, Media, PR on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a pretty hilarious video here at DailyKos with a parody of a JetBlue pre-flight video.
For those who don’t already know, JetBlue is the corporate sponsor for the YearlyKos convention this year, which prompted a Talking Points segment from Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly engineered a Michael Moore type ambush of the CEO of JetBlue, David [...]
open-source politics
Posted in Internet, Journalism, Technology on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mother Jones July/August issue is all about “open-source” politics. Haven’t read through much of it yet, but it looks like there’s some interesting stuff,
gonzo journalism on a boat full of fundies
Posted in Journalism, Republicans on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh wow — investigative journalism abounding this week. Only this time our writer takes on a much more formidable crowd then some PR execs — a gaggle of ultra-conservatives floating at sea!
Amidst the National Review cruise, Johann Hari encounters a crowd that believes the Iraq war was a resounding success and, above all else, [...]
Generation (fill in the blank)
Posted in Journalism on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I told myself I wasn’t going to comment on the events at VT. I didn’t want to add to the growing noise “they should have done this” or ” I would have done that.” I wanted to give this situation space and give some silence to the noise. I guess, I’m just adding it to [...]
if you were eight blocks past uncertainty, five houses down from hope and you made a wrong turn at sentimentalism….
Posted in City Life, Journalism, Snarking on April 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My current apartment building is like a mini United Nations, there are so many different races and ethnicities living here. What’s strange, however, is I don’t see these people around the neighborhood, only in the building. The neighborhood I live in — upper NW DC — is one of the whitest, yuppiest places you’ve ever [...]
in which I continue to blog about random things of very little interest at all
Posted in Journalism, PR on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Times tech writer disses PR people (hmm, apparently spell check doesn’t do “disses.” Is it because I’ve spelled the word wrong, or just because it’s trying to save me from using a word no one should ever use outside of 1996?).
This leads to PR bashing in the comments section, followed by much PR [...]
a request
Posted in Journalism, Media, Solicitation on January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I may have mentioned before, I’m a graduate student in communication, and this semester I have to write my thesis. My general idea for my topic is to explore how celebrity tabloid magazines reflect the social/cultural norms and prevailing ideologies (or desired behaviors) of a particular time period. Specifically, I want to compare and [...]
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