Category Archives: Media
Peggy Noonan reveals self as poor writer. Reveal, reveal, reveal.
Glynnis MacNicol at Mediaite has already pointed out most of the dodgy fallacy in Peggy Noonan’s column here.
She failed to point out the clumsiness of Noonan’s writing, which I find unbefitting of the Wall Street Journal:
It revealed what the president doesn’t want revealed, which is that he doesn’t want to reveal much about his [...]
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BBC: Internet ‘in running’ for Nobel Peace Prize
This does about as much good as when Time named me and you and everyone we know person of the year. Except this (sort of) actually matters. The Nobel committee needs a no-novelty bids rule, lest it become the Oscars.
[via BBC News]
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Why does every story written about Gawker have to be part-Nick Denton pinup?
Okay, fucking journalists, you know the name of the guy who started Gawker. Floss it. It is, for many of you, the one thing keeping you in one piece as your profession falls apart with you inside. But you never hear anyone saying “Why did Arianna Huffington turn her site into a firehose of obnoxious, [...]
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Facebook: used more on the weekend.
Two points to make about this World Editors Forum story:
1. No fucking shit more articles are shared on Facebook over the weekend; most of us have lives, things to do during the day, etc. Doesn’t it follow that not only will one see an increase in article trading by way of FB, but a general [...]
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“The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg”
I’m only on page 2 of the first piece, but if this series lives up to its self-promotion, this is the one we’ve been waiting for (“we” being the people who know who Mark Zuckerberg is).
UPDATE: Wow, Business Insider… two years of reporting for that?
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NPH = Gargamel?
Neal Patrick Harris’ stock went up in my book after I saw him guest judge (read: tear people up on) American Idol. Not that NPH ever had stock issues in my book. But this could be his tipping point… from pretty cool to fucking awesome:
Neil Patrick Harris has a TV-heavy resume. Now he’s just landed [...]
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Did Bob Beckel Swear On Hannity Last Night?
No. He didn’t. And pretty clearly, too. But some are still running with it (with the same headline we’ve got.. rule 471 of new media journalism: If you haven’t an answer, run it anyway, but as a question.).
Here’s the video. Its pretty clear he says “yet” not “shit”.
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Never read it.
Foer leans back and smiles, just a little smug. “That’s the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don’t have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores” – he points a fork in my direction – “have to be neurotic. Personally, I don’t have time for all that; I don’t want to get into it.”
Then why’d you [...]
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Dirty Laundry
Newsweek — They still make it, apparently — has published a dialogue between its editors and contributors about the journalistic definition of the word “terrorist” … Really, it mostly proves what a bunch of dumb motherfuckers they’ve got editing that magazine, with the possible exception of Michael Isikoff, who, even still, refers to a guy [...]
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On writing well.