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
Category: Journalism
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
The Blogola "Scandal"
Last week (on January 13, 2005) Instapundit took the unusual step of opening comments on the ethics of Blog-payola. I wrote this: I am pretty agnostic... Read more
Holding Their Ink-Stained Breath Till They Turn Blue
Update on the the Tulsa World silliness: Michael Bates reports, citing to the blog Tulsa Topics, that the World has wisely decided that it will... Read more
Times Op-Ed Columnists Have More Fun
One of our most excellent blog-related adventures was our involvement with Bob Cox of The National Debate and his wacky IP-abusive go-round with the New... Read more
The royal Fifth Estate
Glenn Reynolds: [Former New York Times ombudsman Bill] Keller writes: “It’s an unusual and powerful thing, this freedom that our founders gave to the press.... Read more
Talking a leak
Want to know the difference between a leaker and whistle-blower? Johnny Dollar posits the distinction. Originally posted 2013-11-03 23:05:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Floyd Abrams loses another one: No privilege for reporters’ phone records
We’ve never been big fans of the “press shield,” and I say that because I like the First Amendment. I just wish Floyd Abrams would... Read more
Exactly Wrong on Free Speech for New Media
Via the permalink-less Kausfiles, a link to excerpts from (and suckup commentary about) remarks by CNN suit Jonathan Klein espousing the self-parodic, anti-democratic, anti-free-speech, and,... Read more
Whither The Unwritten MSM Constitution?
Glenn Reynolds writes: THE NEW YORK TIMES’ PUBLIC EDITOR, Byron Calame, criticizes the Times’ handling of the NSA story. Jeff Jarvis calls Calame’s column “almost... Read more
DC Circuit: Press Not Shielded
Another red hot AP story: The Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper and The New York... Read more