MSNBC President Phil Griffin: We’ve Never Had an Ideology—Just a “Progressive Sensibility”
By Don Irvine.
In an article by Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast, MSNBC president Phil Griffin denies that the network has a liberal ideology, instead calling it a “progressive sensibility.” Grove writes:
Where some Republican operatives [...]
Boston Globe owner begins making his moves
By Christopher B. Daly.
It’s no great surprise that John Henry, the wealthy former investor who bought the Boston Globe late last October for less than $70 million, has named a new publisher: himself. This is a step that has many precedents [...]
New Journalist Association Established in Ethiopia
By Betre Yacob.
Ethiopian journalists have successfully established a new nation-wide non partisan and independent professional association, which is unique of its kind. The first general assembly meeting of the association was colourfully [...]
NY Times Public Editor Wonders What Happened to Real News on Front Page
By Don Irvine.
For the second time in less than a week, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has taken the paper to task for its reporting.
This time Sullivan is wondering what has happened to real news at the Times:
It’s [...]
Fox News: Is bad news worse than no news at all?
By Cristopher Daly.
Here is a graphic from a NYTimes op-ed distilling a 2012 study conducted by researchers in the PublicMind project at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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New York Times Editors: On the Wrong Side of History
By Stephen Lendman.
Times editors support the worst of US crimes of war and against humanity. Managed news misinformation substitutes for unvarnished truth.
Editorials wrongfully blame Assad for Western-supported death squad crimes. [...]
Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century
By Robert Lee, Konsbruck.
To read report: Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century
Surveillance state: What Obama should have said about NSA
By Christopher B. Daly.
President Obama had an opportunity today to say (and thereby do) something meaningful about reining in the surveillance state and re-asserting the Constitution. Disappointingly, he whiffed.
Here’s what I think [...]
Corporate Sabotage part 1
By Marhalt.
Competition is good – the whole idea of competition is that corporations will compete with one another, and in the process develop new, better, cheaper products. Often, it does – and the company with the better [...]
Reality Show Update 2013
By Marhalt.
So here we are at year’s end again, and it’s time for our annual review of reality shows, as we did in 2012 and in 2011. So without further ado, how real were the shows in 2013?
DUCK DYNASTY
Tradition demands that [...]
Washington Post Reader Representative to Depart Early—Paper Seeking Another Shill
By Don Irvine.
The Washington Post confirmed Wednesday that its reader representative, Doug Feaver, has left the paper after less than one year in the job.
The Post created the reader representative job after the contract of its ombudsman [...]
A new New York Times online
By Christopher B. Daly.
Today brings a long-awaited redesign of the New York Times online in all its various incarnations — desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile.
An overall first impression: it’s clean, smart, fast, [...]
MSNBC Assigns Executive to Review Scripts Before They Go On Air
By Don Irvine.
MSNBC, which has been reeling from recent statements made by its hosts, has apparently decided that the network can’t risk any more embarrassing incidents. To that end, they are putting an executive in charge of reviewing [...]
What’s up with RaFa the hacker and Crowdflower
By Alek Boyd.
[UPDATED 30.12.2013, 03.01.2014] RaFa the hacker is getting creative again. He is using Crowdflower to scrub the reputation of Venezuelan criminals (birds of a feather…). Let me explain how this [...]
How Iranian journalists abroad are censoring us on the nuclear issue
By Nima C.
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Fortunately, I haven’t deleted this blog. It takes a lot of time to update my Farsi and German language blogs and there are enough Iranian journalists [...]
Curbing Left Wing Extremism through Mobile Phones
By Pratibha Singh.
In the year 2009, the Prime Minister had very rightly labelled “left wing extremism as the biggest threat to the internal security of India. Since then, the Central Government has tried to address the “Maoist [...]
Imprisoned Ethiopian Journalist Denied a Medical Treatment
By Betre Yacob.
An Ethiopian Journalist Woubshet Taye, who is serving his sentence in Kality Prison in Addis Ababa, is being denied a Medical Treatment. He is suffering from severe renal calculus (kidney stone).
Woubshet Taye is among a number [...]
Fame at Last: Google Finds the Original Google after 110 Years in a Library ‘Wilderness’
By Mike Sutton.
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The Google (1913)
Readers of my recent mythbusting work (e.g.here and here) will know that I have developed a research technique called internet dating (so called [...]
Spanish Journalist still missing in action
By The Daily Journalist.
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Correspondents for the Spanish newspaper EL Mundo, Javier Espinosa and freelance Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have remained captive by Al-Qaeda for over [...]
CNN Tops Fox News, MSNBC as Most Searched News Source on Google in 2013
By Don Irvine.
CNN may be a cable-news ratings laggard, but it has managed to beat its rivals, Fox News and MSNBC, as the number one trending news source on Google. The search engine giant released its annual trends list this week, [...]