alt right media
Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
elite
Serving the Twitter Elite
Twitter [https://blog.twitter.com/2014/new-features-for-verified-users]: > Similar to how we help businesses make advertising simple and effective on Twitter, we occasionally build features that enable these public figures — verified users — to engage more easily with the world through Twitter. Interesting to see Twitter developing an effective Elite, with
gonzo
Why did journalism never go gonzo?
Kevin Anderson pointed out [http://charman-anderson.com/2012/07/20/us-humourist-skewers-newspaper-industry/] this interview with humorist and newspaper columnist Dave Berry [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Newsletter/Columns/Syndicates--Dave-Barry-On-Winning-The-NSNC-Lifetime-Achievement-Award] , in which he makes a pretty damning assessment of the newspaper business: > So what role did newspapers play in the decline of
bloggers
Subject Coverage: journalists vrs bloggers
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2010/06/ft-06-06-1667.html] [Created by [Flowton](http://www.flowtown.com/blog/how-subject-matter-varies-between-blogs-and-traditional-press?display=wide) from [Pew data](http://www.journalism.org/), discovered via [We Are Social](http://wearesocial.net/blog/2010/06/blogs-press-differing-agendas/)] These appear to be US figures, but it’s
mainstream
Old Media Is Your "Trendy" Uncle
There’s an interesting post over on Kottke.org by guest blogger Aaron Cohen that points out that the speed from launch to mainstream media adoption of new social web tools [http://kottke.org/10/05/the-speed-with-which-traditional-media-adopts-social-media-platforms] is growing ever faster. I’ve been chuckling ever since I read it,
Journalism
The Meaningless Mainstream Media
Andy Ihnatko on why the term “Mainstream Media” is meaningless [http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2009/06/28/the-mainstream-media/]: > You waste your shot by blaming it on The Mainstream Media instead. When I get to the end of your heroic screed I’m tempted to click the “Comment On
Blogging
The Blog Silly Season Cometh
The comment volume on our blogs is waaaay down this week. And half the office are about to go on holiday. And that got me thinking: Do blogs now have a silly season? In the early days, us obsessives would keep the reader and comment levels high right through the
advertising
Blogging in the Mainstream: Blogger gets the Girl
Another sign that blogging is in the mainstream now: [via [The Blogger’s Blog](http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=726082)]
Blogging
What is the role of MSM blogs?
In many ways, I think Shane’s [following post](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/blog/2008/07/23/suddenly_everybodys_buying_blogs) hits the nail more accurately on the head:> This seems to be a change in direction for a blogosphere. Instead of bloggers trying to reach
jonathan medved
Le Web 3 '07: Social Media versus Anti-social Media
There were a couple of interesting, but ill-attended talks yesterday before lunch, which I wanted to draw together. June Cohen [http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/13] of the TED Conference [http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CKeB5LjIopACFRRSZwodakfhqw] made some interesting points about media, and in particular,
bloggers
Mainstream Media: Not The Borg
I’ve just realised why the comments last night ascribing one monolithic mindset to the traditional media annoyed me so much: > His commenters show the typically depressing blogger mindset of treating us journalists like a monolithic social block that all behave the same way. Yet if any journalist should
andrew gilligan
Quinn versus Gilligan: Specialist Hack against Mainstream?
David Quinn, a journalist and former colleague based in Manchester, posted on his blog that last night’s Dispatches by Andrew Gilligan was actually trading off a three year old story [https://web.archive.org/web/20070811180450/http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2007/07/30/gilligan-dispatches-three-year-old-story-for-channel-4/] . And David should know,