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"The "Independent" newspaper has now joined the other News International papers (News of the World, Sun) and the Daily Mail as a repository for Government spin and cheap nasty spoon-fed journalism."
"Given that "journalism" presently encompasses "publishing accounts of things you've seen using the Internet" and "taking pictures of stuff and tweeting them" and "blogging" and "commenting on news stories," this proposal is even more insane than the tradition[al] "journalist licenses" practiced in totalitarian nations. "
"It's also an irony, I guess, that in a country (Spain) where the papers are full of tales of corruption journalism remains an honourable profession. And one for which you must get high marks in your university entrance exam (the selectividad). Whereas in a country (the UK) where there's much less corruption reported journalism is a discredited profession. And never more so than right now. Still, you can get to study it – not surprisingly, perhaps – even if you get only two Es in your A-levels. Or whatever they're called these days. Albeit in a joke university."
"a large share of the odium for misleading the public should fall on whoever has briefed the press, and the origins of misleading stories merit as much attention as their content."
The Daily Mail website is a modern freakshow in which women and men are paraded in order to be mocked by the visiting reader. It is also an unintended freakshow in which the sorry business model of modern journalism is revealed: pack in the reader by appe
What’s the difference between a blogger and a journalist?
One still has a day job.
Absolutely side-splittingly perfectly accurate appraisal.
... why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local audience.
The raid in which the server was seized is an attack on free speech and independent journalism in the UK, and especially on the grassroots open-publishing platform that is Indymedia.
Those of you who believe the BBC is inexorably drifting away from hard-hitting, insightful journalism in favour of lowest-common-denominator populist piffle ..
They are still stuck in a mentality of scarcity. This will change. One day.
Run by the non-partisan, non-profit Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org has been a go-to source for years whenever politicians claims that they, or their opponent, did or didn't so something that just seems a ta
The folk in Malaga had their peace shattered by a couple of sonic booms. El Pais defied the laws of currently known science, reporting that the planes had traveled faster than the speed of LIGHT. :)
Well, here’s a headline you can print: The sky isn’t falling.
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