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Print Publication Sellouts

Nick — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:18:12 +0000

If you, newspaper publishers, wouldn’t sell ad-space above your masthead in your print edition, why on earth would you do it on your website? I’m looking at you, Washington Post and Economist. Share and Enjoy:

Food, Inc., a Review

Nick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:19:37 +0000

Last week I saw an early screening movie Food, Inc. Despite the movie’s call for an open dialog about food, eating, and the industrial food system, the movie will be nothing more than another in a string of “liberal documentaries” that do more to polarize a population than to create an open dialog. My overall [...]

Journalist or Blogger?

Nick — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:07:50 +0000

Newspapers are in trouble, so report the newspapers. So does network television, also facing new challenges from both cable television and the internet. This week, NPR’s On the Media posed the question on how to save newspapers. They played excerpts from a recent Senate commerce committee hearing on the future of journalism. After pointing fingers [...]

The Fatal Shortcoming of Social Media

Nick — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:01:28 +0000

Twitter, for example, allows greater access to content that Facebook; my "tweets" are republished on this site without any hassle (as well as on my Facebook page, which recently has changed to look more like Twitter). ... Twitter seems to be better than most at opening up their systems to the outside world; they have a published, well-documented API that allows anyone to write applications to access their servers; the problem here is that you still must access their servers.

Washington Post Kills MyWashingtonPost.com

Nick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:36:17 +0000

I opened my browser today to get a check of the headlines from the Washington Post, using their “mywashingtonpost.com” custom portal. I was quite disappointed at the message I received today: Thank you for being a loyal reader of washingtonpost.com and a user of our customized mywashingtonpost.com page. Over the years, washingtonpost.com has developed new [...]

The Most Loyal Patron of the Beer Tent

Nick — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:13:37 +0000

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Give a Man a Hug

Nick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:32:07 +0000

A painfully funny commentary about McCain supporters. Share and Enjoy:

Russia’s War on Palin

Nick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:25:44 +0000

I love that Sarah Palin not only cannot backup her foreign policy experience with Russia. It shows a level of evasiveness we haven’t seen in politics in a long, long time. Commentators have tried to call her out on this, late-night humorists have mocked her. Now, she has gained a new enemy: Russia. Turns out, [...]

Becoming an epidemic?

Nick — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:57:49 +0000

The media and John McCain’s staff seems to have come down with a case of foot-in-mouth disease. The gestation period seems to vary from a period of days to a few months. Share and Enjoy:

The inadvertant drinking game

Nick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:19:49 +0000

The folks over at Slate magazine have created a list of the 33 “syrupy words” that NBC commentators constantly overuse during their Olympic coverage: adversity, battled, cancer, challenges, courage, cry, death, dedication, determination, dream, emotion, glory, golden, hardship, heart, hero, inspiration, inspire, journey, magic, memory, miracle, mom, mother, Olympic-sized, overcome, passion, proud, sacrifice, spirit, tears, [...]

Celebrex: “We’re no worse than the competition”

Nick — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:08:42 +0000

Celebrex, the NSAID pain reliever that was vilified in media years ago, is back with a new ad campaign. It’s been on the air for a while, but I’m finally irritated enough to comment on the ad. There are three major problems with this ad: The outlines of the drawings are made from disclaimers and [...]

Man v. Nature: The Road to Victory

Nick — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:30:02 +0000

APM’s Marketplace aired a story yesterday on the Dutch’s new war against the water. The players are the same: overflowing rivers threatening Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and other below-sea-level cities. This time, the enemy is shifting climate patterns and increasing water runoff. The solution: floods. [From Marketplace: Dutch plan for flooding: Higher ground] Share and Enjoy:

Les élections américaines

Nick — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:34:52 +0000

Sometimes, the best way to take a look at yourself comes from outside. This is why I think it is important for everyone to read the foreign press, especially foreign-language press. Le Monde has a section on their website on the US election. While the French are no experts on the US electoral process (neither [...]

A Beautiful Distraction

Nick — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:06:18 +0000

Or, Sarko’s on the market. Shortly after a debilitating transit strike in France, a spokesman from palais de l’Élysée announced that M. Sarkozy and his wife, who had not been seen in public with the French President for weeks, have divorced by mutual agreement. The ploy appears to be working. Most of the French papers [...]

Fox Business

Nick — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:03:35 +0000

More blonde boobs than Bloomberg. [From Business television | Squawk boxes | Economist.com ] Share and Enjoy:

Slow News Day

Nick — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:44:20 +0000

Apparently, Apple is planning to make some sort of announcement today. This is the headline from washingtonpost.com I fail to see how this is news, but all the free PR Apple gets from the large media companies must save them a fortune in advertising costs. [From Apple Plans Announcement Today - washingtonpost.com] UPDATE: Big surprise, [...]

Honest Journalism?

Nick — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:23:00 +0000

Either way, I'm curious whether or not major (and minor, for that matter) media publications should disclose when they make changes of any sort, no matter how innocent, after publication.

...My question is this: is it better to have a full disclosure policy (à la Boing Boing), a limited disclosure policy (the Reuters model), or to simply make changes and hope no one notices (the Slate way)?

Blowhard

Nick — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:01:36 +0000

In today’s Washington Post, George Will has an article that chronicles the Dust Bowl. The story is in the context of “warnings of environmental apocalypse” and serves as an illustration of a real one; the problem is, the dust seems to have settle in Will’s head. There is something of a logical disconnect between the [...]

iTunes Introduces Complete My Album

Nick — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:17:06 +0000

Apple announces today that it will add a new feature to the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) called Complete My Album. The premise of this features is that people should not be penalized for trying out an album by buying only on track, only to have to buy the track again in order to gain access [...]

The Guilty Pleasure of C-SPAN

Nick — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:09:02 +0000

I’ve been out of the political loop lately, largely because I live about 4,240 miles from home (according to Google Maps). Today was a pretty lousy day outside, so I’ve been in studying. After having enough of that, I decided to tune into the Senate hearings regarding the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys on C-SPAN [...]