Stupid Media Tricks

Media pranksters

Gizmodo has nothing on what the New York Post did to Dallas fans this weekend.
Go Big Blue!


Hollywood eats its young

It’s about fairness, stupid.


Among the many problems I have with how news is covered…

From Talking Points Memo:
Perhaps it’s not time to assign fault while active rescue operations are underway. But once that’s over, maybe it would be worth the networks taking a tenth of the time they use milking ratings from these mine sagas and cast a little light on how a lot of this is preventable if [...]


Who says irony is dead?



Journalism goes pay for play?

The PAN Communications blog has a disturbing item this morning. The Boston Globe is offering its staff a new contract with compensation tied to the financial health of the paper. While at first blush that might not seem so bad an idea, I’ll let PAN describe the possible consequences:
What happens when formerly objective reporters feel [...]