The Next Five
Continuing yesterday’s ruminations on how the news’ agenda should change:
6. The obesity clamour dies down as does the fake drama over cholesterol, two manufactured disease scares that the news media have unwittiingly fuelled. Obesity is not a disease and cholesterol matters a lot less than we’re led to believe. How do we make medical issues […]
Ten Things
There’s a natural tendency in bubble days like these to regard technology as the source of all innovation. Not only is that untrue it’s also misleading. Not much has changed in 2006 when you look at the stories that make up the news agenda. Though the technology of newsd and opinion, such as syndication […]
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If you’ve been following the coverage of the five murders over in Ipswich, UK you may be wondering why the TV newscasters continue to insist on describing the women as prostitutes, as in “the 19 year old prosititute”. Does any 19 year old deserve to be described as a prostitute and only a prostitute? This […]
The Natural Inclination to Censorship
I promised yesterday to convey some of my impressions of censorship around film making. Now I don’t want to make out that I am a film maker. The word Director is not on the back of my chair. And nor do I take the coward’s way out and print it on my T shirt and […]
What They Say is Less Important than What They Don’t Say
Yesterday’s Sunday Times ran a brief article by historian Norman Davies under the title “How We Didn’t Win The War…. But Russia Did”. It might seem like a peculiarly British preoccupation, this second world war stuff, but I think it goes to the heart of why the west now confronts radical Islam.
In short US and […]
Friday’s Media Pulse Finally in The News
I wrote this Friday.
The editor of Business 2.0 is asking every journalist at his magazine to create a blog. And in a possible first for a major publisher, the participating bloggers at the Time Inc. title will be paid based on their traffic.
Via Iwantmedia.
And this today:
And the latest news is…. Buzzmachine caught up with this […]
Well Said is Not Always Well Written
Dave Winer has been the focal point of a discussion on blogs and journalism these past few days.
Dave’s point is that the reader is now the writer and in ten years time all news will be blog based.
On mediangler I’ve been trying to work some of this out too. Conor O’Neill has pointed out that […]
Grabbing the Headlines: Ten Views on Blogs and News
This week saw a small eruption in that corner of the blogging world where professional writers operate. It began with a post by Nick Carr, though blogcritics preceded it with a contribution from the BBC.
What the debate you’re about to hear tells you is that a lot of people are learning to write headlines. Contributions […]
From the Sacred Fact
Richard Sambrook is the director of BBC global news and a blogger. The blog raises questions I keep raising so here we go.
Richard’s blog is Sacred Facts “Something thought to be actual as opposed to invented”.
Perhaps he’ll come over here and walk with the profane for a while because the idea that something out […]
Pushing the Journos Out onto The Street and Gossip onto The Screen
Sacking journalists is becoming a bit of a rage even in organisations that could do with more manpower. I know the Irish Times has been lining up a round of redundancies and today the BBC over in the UK announced it was getting rid of 108 journalists.
I’m amazed. The BBC’s news coverage is becoming a […]