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Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Media/Internet News That Sounds Like Anything But
The addition of hip-hop slang and ‘people-speak’ are two misguided solutions to the same imagined problem: that the TV news has to be changed to accommodate the supposed throngs of young people who aren't interested in, or can't focus on, straightforward information
· Teen-News [PopPolitics]

News That Reads Like Not Making News
NY Times in Action & Circuit: Now you'll get to see how two long e-mails can be boiled down to a paragraph, which is reduced to a sentence, which is then cut.
· Portrait of Bloggers by Mainstream Press [Amygdala]