Remember When We Used to Print Things We Found on the Internet?
Remember when you used to read funny things on the Internet and print them out? Me neither. But I guess I did, because I just was rooting around in some…
Media
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Random Media Notes
Even more advertisers bail on Glenn Beck. Salon lays off 20% of its editorial staff. Reader’s Digest prepares to file for bankruptcy. “Amish Newspaper Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way” Time…
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The New York Times is going into the wine business in hopes of making some scratch. Glenn Beck continues to lose sponsors. Top US media companies and marketers have created…
The End of News? Another Beginning
“[The] image of the Internet as parasite has some foundation. Without the vital news-gathering performed by established institutions, many Web sites would sputter and die. “In their sweep and scorn,…
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“The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt” Writer Alex Grossman gets busted for impersonating Sarah Palin on Facebook. General Electric calls Bill O’Reilly report “irresponsible…
Funny Women
I have been thinking a lot about funny women. I’m going to tell you what’s good before I tell you what’s very, very bad.
Random Media Notes Update
Recent analysis of Twitter claimes “40% of tweets are pointless babble.”
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AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan. A laid off Time Inc. staffer plans to launch an “online regional news network” serving the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. (via Mediabistro) LA…
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“Facebook Buys FriendFeed in $50M Deal” (via Mediabistro) Print media’s decline is hurting photojournalists. Financial Times’ Niall Ferguson writes a truly offensive lede. A preview of the World’s first Twitter…
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Seattle’s only newspaper re-familiarizes itself with a nearly forgotten word: profit. Ben Stein loses his New York Times column. “Why Neoconservative Pundits Love Jon Stewart.” David Carr examines Rupert Murdoch’s…
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Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all online content. Partial-birther Lou Dobbs brags about support from CNN. HuffPo blogger slams HuffPo for headline: “What were you thinking?” (via Mediabistro)…
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Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on online content theft and how it spreads. ESPN puts the squeeze on its employees’ twitter habits. Euna Lee and Laura Ling credit Clinton with ending…