Negative Space: journalism
- ABC refutes journalism’s layers of quality
- Which is worse? Making up words or just using them willy-nilly?
- All the President’s Men
- Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- As reporters grow dependent on their regular drug-crisis fix
- Adam Paul Weisman writes about the “journalistic dream-world” where he “can write almost anything” and “nobody is going to call him on it”. From the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, September 26, 1986, p 21A.
- Black is White
- Have we finally flipped the switch into full Orwell mode?
- Fighting for the American Dream
- Joe the Plumber writes about his experiences at the center of one of the most vicious smear campaigns in recent memory.
- Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times
- Abe Rosenthal ran the New York Times from the late sixties to the mid eighties. He made lots of enemies, took sides in New York’s elections, and treated people as if only he were real. But he also turned the Times into a more profitable entity that reported news instead of press releases and stories instead of raw data.
- Follow the Other McCain for excitement in New York!
- The Other McCain is gonzoing forward in New York 23.
- It is widely believed that the news media is clueless
- I believe that the news media is clueless over the sales records of Sarah Palin’s bestseller “Going Rogue”. Because they’re clueless, they’re flailing about madly for a narrative that fits the book into their uninspired, factless world view.
- Mike Royko: A Life in Print
- Mike Royko, according to author and fellow newsman F. Richard Ciccone, was the heir to the Mencken responsibility of satirizing the powerful and protecting the weak. I believe he came close, but Ciccone’s book doesn’t show it.
- The President’s freelancers
- If the president told you that he could get the press gunning for you, would you believe him?
- Resistance to media bias is unexpected
- It’s amazing how unprepared the biased media is when people don’t play along with their bias.
- Tanning bed media returns
- Looks like the tanning bed media are back, so I’ve temporarily moved Conservatives4Palin to the main blogroll.
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- Editor Carolyn Purcell’s vision is continued by friends Sam Lee and Shaheen Hamedi.
- Why I don’t write about people not writing about Sarah Palin
- Yeah, Palin Derangement Syndrome is a real bitch.
- The World of Mike Royko
- Doug Moe’s “The World of Mike Royko” is not as deep as Ciccone’s “A Life in Print” tries to be, but it does what it does very well.
