Media Bitchfest

You Sold Out

Tom Scocca of the New York Observer has a lengthy screed up today decrying the dangers of YouTube and what it is doing the fabric of our culture. His hypothesis: the ephemeral nature of television is sacrosanct. It used to be, when you caught something extraordinary on the tele, it was lightning in a bottle, […]

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Blogs Kind Of Report Kind Of Stories, Kind Of, Sometimes

Teller of truths, Pew Interests, has released a study that confirms pretty much everything you might think about bloggers.
Do they think they’re journalists? Some do.
What defines a journalist, blogger? Linking to sources and checking facts.
What about respecting copyrighted material? Huh?
So why is entertainment the most popular topic and religion the least? When Jesus gets the […]

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Three Stars of the Newscycle: 7.19.07

Quick, blog-centric, Three Stars today. Why? Blame him —>
? Sitty 1010 WINS photoshop art, partake in the laughter [Ironic Sans]
? Gawker is dealing with a lunatic fixated on US Weekly, good shit [Gawker]
? Trite and overwritten [AssholeBlog]

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Over Analysis of the Over Analysis of the Over Analysis

President Bush said “shit” yesterday. He said it to Tony Blair, in a supposed private conversation, and in context he meant to say that Syria needs to immediately halt the funding and tactical aide of Hezbollah. Of course this predictably hit the blogs pretty hard yesterday (these kids love a good s-word) and even more […]

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Variation On A Theme

The SFGate.com’s Mark Morford has a column this morning lamenting the ephemeral nature of the newspaper and the goofy question, “Are newspapers dying?” The column is very well written and pretty funny, but it got me thinking about he cult of “the blogosphere” and it’s staked hatred for the dreaded Mainstream Media (or MSM as […]

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New Media Gets Slightly More Accusatory

Who doesn’t love a good evolution every once in a while. While many newspapers are kicking and screaming against the ever ferocious current that is the internet, we always like to salute those who’ve taken their heads out of their asses long enough to realize the valuable tool that sits in front of them. Of […]

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Syracuse New Times Flirts With Relevance

I kid, I kid.
But seriously, they kind of are. Editor and Publisher chronicles the tale of Salt City’s weekly and its rocky relationship with new Bush domestic advisor Karl Zinsmeister. Long story short, SNT ran a story with some incendiary quotes from The Zins including this choice nugget:

“People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty […]

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