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Printers’ ink is the lifeblood of a democracy…
… cable news, not so much. More sips from the seemingly-never-ending stream that broadcast journalism has become at Cable News Chyrons. ### As we cathect on Colbert, we might recall that it was on this...
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You are what you read…
source From Lauren Leto, an amusing exercise in “Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author.” Some excepts: J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in (duh). Stephenie Meyer People who type like this:...
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better”…
Hash In the grand tradition De Quincey, Freud, Burroughs, and Thompson (if not Emerson, from whom the quote in the title of this post), Bryan Saunders used self-experimentation as source material– as...
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“The most inaccurate headline ever”?…
An article published in The Telegraph over a month ago remains on The Telegraph website with a headline that is so spectacularly incorrect that the BBC has reported that the article may set “a new...
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News that isn’t…
From corrections… … to photos… …to typos… … readers will find the backstories to these gaffes and myriad others at Poynter’s “The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012.” Special Bonus:...
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Catching ‘em in the act…
Ever had that sense of deja vu when reading a news posting online? Well, the Sunlight Foundation has your back: they’ve created Churnalism– a simple search tool that let’s one quickly determine...
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“If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent”*…
Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist In keeping with...
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Art that wants to be free…
Alexander the Great in the Air; Unknown; Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe; about 1400 – 1410 with addition in 1487; Tempera colors, gold, silver paint, and ink on parchment Early this month, The...
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Click bait…
From the ever-exquisite xkcd. ### As we linger over listicles, we might send almost-but-not-quite existential birthday greetings to Albert Camus; he was born on this date in 1913. A Nobel Prize...
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it”*…
It’s straight out of the pages of science fiction: a “wearable” book, which uses temperature controls and lighting to mimic the experiences of a story’s protagonist, has been dreamed up by academics...
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“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is...
source From “Are Selfies Causing the Spread of Head Lice?” to “Brain Implant Lets One Monkey Control Another,” all the news that amuses: The News Hole. * Charles Anderson Dana, American journalist,...
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“The lunatics have taken over the asylum”*…
What if front pages were selected by newspapers’ readers instead of their editors? At NewsWhip, we’re always interested in the news stories people are choosing to share – and how those stories differ...
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“He do the Police in different voices”*…
source Police blotters aren’t tasked with remembering criminals or crafting their deeds into a hardboiled narrative. When newspapers can only spare a sentence to describe a raft of offenses, fitting...
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“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be...
Edward R. Murrow source There’s no denying that newspapers are in jeopardy; emerging electronic media have eaten away at both their audiences and their advertising revenue. But lest we count them...
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“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but...
Actually, sometimes it does: “Classic Jokes Explained” [image above, from here] * E.B. White ### As we fiddle with our funny bones, we might bake a laced cake for a writer who never explained his...
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“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs...
Hand-wringing over the state of journalism– especially the state of print journalism– is a feature of our times. As Will Mari reminds us, the profession has been here before… In the late 1950s, TV...
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“Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of...
Witness Hilde Scheller during the murder trial of Paul Krantz, Berlin, 1928 One of the founding figures of photojournalism, Erich Salomon pioneered the use of hidden cameras—the phrase “candid...
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“I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords”*…
Under the general heading “the robots are after my job,” Kevin Roose, the News Director of Fusion, on how he “wrote 7 blog posts in less than 3 seconds.” (Spoiler alert- it’s all about...
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“You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is”*…
Headlines in newspapers, teasers for TV new stories “at 11”– from it’s birth, the press has promoted its wares with précis that pique a peruser’s interest. The advent of online journalism has only...
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“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind;...
If all U.S. household income totaled $100, this is how it is divided Something massive and important has happened in the United States over the past 50 years: Economic wealth has become increasingly...
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