Not a Rookie — Just a Freedom Fighter
Doug, you’re right about this: Helen Thomas will, in one capacity or another, outlast Scott McLellan in his role as White House Press Secretary. But... Read more
Category: Journalism
Standing Shmoe to Shmoe
The author of this weblog was quoted in USC Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review in an article entitled “Tsunami Video Alliance Portends Future Distribution for Amateurs”... Read more
Mainstream mugging
Debbie Schlussel is upset, and quite rightfully, it would seem, about Sean Hannity — very much MSM, even if the medium is Fox — lifting... Read more
Reporters without Borders Nominates MBA for Freedom of Expression Blog Award
Yesterday the Media Bloggers Association announced that it has been nominated for a “Freedom of Expression Blog Award.” You can read about the award here.... Read more
Billings Don’t Only Matter to Lawyers
And trademark law does’t evidently matter all that much to the Billings Gazette. What a mess this story is! Here are some of the trademark... Read more
Copywrong
David Post discusses Judge Richard Posner’s musings on the pretty hopeless prospects of the newspaper biz: [I]f “the newspaper” as a business model fails (because... Read more
That Floyd Abrams magic, or truly scrumptuous
The arrogant New York Times loses again. The Supreme Court agrees with the Second Circuit: If there were a reporters’ privilege under the First Amendment,... Read more
The big crunch
It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some... Read more
Well, yes, I do have fun (UPDATED)
I hate @RonColeman because he has more fun practicing law than I get to have. http://t.co/PRr7hJMbwA Hate. Hate. Hate. — The Original SPQR (@SPQRzilla) October... Read more
They really are biased!
Just what you expect, right? Well, that’s because I want to keep you as a reader, as explained in this article by by Jack Shafer.... Read more
Other People’s Information Doesn’t Want to be Free
Last night Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled in the Apple case that “reporters who published ‘stolen property’ weren’t entitled to protections. ” B-b-b-b-b-b-but... Read more
Is the Internet replacing “journalism”?
Nicholas Lemann writes in The New Yorker: Reporting—meaning the tradition by which a member of a distinct occupational category gets to cross the usual bounds... Read more
Believe Me Not
Hugh Hewitt asks, “Why are we supposed to believe the Times about stories to which they are not a party when the paper so boldly... Read more
We’re All Journalists Now
That’s what all we journalists have been saying. Scott Gant now lays it out in a new book by the same name. Originally posted 2013-09-28... Read more