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It turns out Dick Cheney got more wrong than just the name of the website factcheck.org during the vice presidential debate Tuesday.
Just The Facts, Ma'am - Websites Clarify Campaign Errors Spinsanity.org and other sites profiled
Ach, Hack Watch suggests that the search for Australia's worst campaign journalist has ended, while in Amerika it just begun

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Pranay Gupte: old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism
Tim Porter of First Draft Fame writes: Warning: This post may induce dyspepsia in critics of Mainstream Journalism
If you are starting out in journalism or thinking about it, listen to an old hand tell why it is still worth the while. Pranay Gupte reflects on a life well spent on good, old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism and says that while the focus of journalism may change, its values must remain inviolate
IN ALL probability, this is for me the last innings in a newspaper career that has stretched four decades over two centuries in several continents and may well end in Singapore.
Daily journalism everywhere is changing so speedily that it's become hard to tell fact from fiction, education from entertainment, and information from ideology. Reckless opinion masquerades as analysis, and character assassination postures as legitimate portraiture. Even the sanctity of news columns often doesn't seem to matter: some of India's major newspapers, for example, openly offer their editorial space on Page One for sale - and they have to turn away takers.
• Why journalism is still a job worth doing [Oregonian editor Sandy Rowe says printing the allegations against David Wu, who is running for a fourth term representing Oregon's 1st Congressional District, "was a difficult decision, raising serious questions about how far the news media should go in examining a candidate's background ]
• · Here are 10 policies to fix our media
• · · Program enjoyed by Gabriella the Behind the News (BTN), the ABC's long-running news program aimed at school-children, will return next year [The Daily Terror and Channel Ten replaced BTN with TTN]
• · · · Discourse at the Boundary between Conversation and Publication; [Blogjam Last Trainspotting ]
• · · · · A Possible Example of Old Media Journalism - Blog Co-Existence ; [From small-town reporter to waitress She's treated
shabbily now: My Turn: Can I Get You Some Manners With That? ]
• · · · · · Mark (Human) Steyn’s column which argued that all future hostages like Kenneth Bigley should be written off to reduce the incentive to take more hostages was cancelled Today, for the first time in all my years with the Telegraph Group, I had a column pulled ; [Nine Japanese were found dead on Tuesday in two rented cars with the windows sealed and charcoal burners at their feet in pacts End of the road facilitated by Internet suicide sites ]