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journalmalism

wtf: mainstream journalism is even more of a mess than we thought

Fri, Oct 01, 2010
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I knew things were bad with the state of journalism — or as I like to call it, journalmalism — but this is almost a perfect storm of WTF-ness in this arena. Because remember James O’Keefe? He’s back…

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Martin Freeman is not Bilbo; Apple takes over Twitter; ‘The Dark Tower’ is a go; more: leftover links

Sun, Sep 12, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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the end of torture porn?; the end of the Internet?; what TV viewers want more of (and what they’re going to get instead); more: leftover links

Sun, Sep 05, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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question of the day: Is Discovery Channel shooter James Lee a canary in a coalmine?

Thu, Sep 02, 2010
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Yesterday afternoon, James Lee picked up a gun, strapped some pipe bombs to his body, and took hostages at the Washington DC-area headquarters of the Discovery Channel…

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watch it: “TIME Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults”

Tue, Aug 31, 2010
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The Onion does it again: makes me want to cry…

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is Betty Draper misunderstood?; the end of cable TV?; why never to throw away someone else’s action figures; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 29, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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question of the day: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange: public menace or Internet hero?

Mon, Aug 23, 2010
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This past weekend started off with a story that was both shocking and so unsurprising that the only thing unexpected about it was that it took this long to happen…

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deep thought (re the journalmalism of cable news)

Sun, Aug 15, 2010
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How does a 24-hour news channel “run out of time” to cover a story?

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what he said: the Chicago ‘Tribune’s Michael Phillips…

Sun, Aug 15, 2010
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…on what arts criticism is, and what it isn’t…

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‘Inception’ attacks ‘X-Men: First Class’; pushing back against 3D; Lisbeth Salander does not eat pray love; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 08, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused…

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