It’s been a busy week of accusations, gnashing of teeth, and protests of innocence.
The Middle East? No, I’m talking about the ongoing debate between bloggers and journalists on one side and public relations folks on the other.
Most bloggers (and many journalists) seem to assume that the only thing a PR does all day is dream […]
Phil Donahue on CBC Radio’s As It Happens:
Who’s to blame?
“The American people are. We elect leaders who talk tough, who say ‘Bring it on,’ instead of bringing help.”
“Every major daily paper in the United States was behind this war.”
Donahue has discovered the documentary film format, and spoke with soldiers and their families about the personal […]
If a little bit of advertiser involvement in podcasts is good, a lot is better, right?
No!
Let’s look at two business podcasts and how they treat their advertisers (or “sponsors”, if you want to pretend it’s not advertising).
On For Immediate Release, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson talked openly about adding commentaries prepared and voiced by their […]
A photographer is spotted taking pictures of children. Someone worries he might be up to something, and calls the police.
They track him on community security cameras and a cop pulls him over.
His question, after being stopped for possibly taking inappropriate photos: Why didn’t the person just ask him why he was taking pictures?
This is […]
You would think George Bush’s massive failure to communicate himself out of the Iraq invasion quagmire would serve as a lesson for other major powers.
The Chinese spin on the Tibetan protests are clear and consistent: the Dalai Lama is a lying, scheming radical fomenting rebellion in an otherwise peaceful part of China.
In an almost unprecedented […]
Slightly bloodied, but unbowed, Sarah Lacy won’t let a Twitterstorm get her down.
The Business Week columnist spent an uncomfortable interview/heckling session at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, but isn’t overly apologetic about the interview. Comments during and after the session on Twitter got pretty nasty. She says:
“But don’t blame Twitter. Social technologies are […]
Jon Stewart and his Daily Show writers nailed the highlight of the media’s intense feeding frenzy on the implosion of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s political career.
The Daily Show’s newsreel March 11 showed clips of several veteran journalists expressing naive confusion over how someone might run up a tab and pay one’s bill with a […]
Journalists often give their interview subjects the benefit of the doubt when they slip up.
That wasn’t the case this week when Barack Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power stepped down from her unpaid position after being quoted as calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an interview with a reporter from Scotland’s The Scotsman newspaper. She […]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been encouraging debate about its online content for some time. In a new move, the public broadcaster is removing some of the controls placed on those discussions.
On the CBC News Editors’ Blog, Jonathan Dube announced that stories on the CBC.ca site are now open for public comments. They are […]
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Written by Eric Eggertson [email] for b5media.
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