On the online-news list, Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin just pointed to this Register UK story about Google News incorporating press releases into its Google News page. I know it’s old-fashioned of me, but I’ve got to take issue with Google’s decision to pollute its news pages with press releases. I applaud Google’s idea of opening […]
Kevin Sites and the blogging controversy
Susan Mernit, a friend and former VP with Netscape and AOL Time Warner, has written her first story in eight years. It’s a subject that I find particularly interesting, since I’ve blogged it several times in the past couple of weeks: Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. CNN’s decision to shut down a popular blog […]
Blogging, journalism and standards of fairness
I’m quoted in an article, Blogging: the new journalism?, that went up today in DotJournalism.co.uk, the British equivalent of the Online Journalism Review. It’s instructive, if only for how resistant traditional journalists remain to the blogging phenomenon. The head of BBCNews.com surprisingly proves himself to be an old-schooler by claiming, “Dissemination of information is great, […]
Should video of the POWs be shown?
I’m watching the Central Command press conference, held in Doha, Qatar, on CNN where U.S. officials confirmed that 12 Army troops have been taken prisoners of war and fewer than 10 were killed in a fake surrender by Iraqi forces. At the press conference, Lt. Gen. John Abizaid said that putting captured soldiers on television […]
More on the muzzling of a blogger at CNN
Mitch and Dan R. weigh in on CNN’s decision to pull the plug on the independent weblog from Iraq by one of its employees, Kevin Sites. Writes Mitch in Old media minds, new media disruption: I keep seeing the worst in journalism displayed during this war. I’ve also seen many examples of big media — […]