As the SMH Icon rightly noted, there was no need for Media Dragon to post a photo of a lost boy last week. Help Needed - N\o More! Swedish Boy Found Alone After Tsunami Reunited with Family
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Credibility Gap: Jerry Seinfield Look a Like
At its best, at its most influential, America developed an ethic that journalism should be fair and balanced. But what the marketplace has wrought, the marketplace now seems destined to tear asunder.
Objectivity as an ideal for American journalists is a relatively new concept. (Let us stipulate that "objectivity" is a troublesome term and set aside, for the moment, the debate over the nature and achievability of objectivity. Suffice it to say we are talking about the idealized notion of objectivity that the average American holds in his or her heart).
• Market-Driven Objectivity and the State of the Media [The Bush administration sucks, its re-election casts a cloud on the judgment of mainstream America, the war is a disgrace, and we deserve the hell we're headed for Narrative Chic & Kowtowing to the Bush Bashers ]
• · UNESCO conference on freedom of Speech in Cyberspace; [The reaction to Kitty Kelley's book is summed up best by your sentence: "If it lacked respectability among 'legit' journalist, the readers didn't care." Journalists -- both print and electronic -- hammered Kelley's book, but it flew off the shelves anyway. Why? Because a lot of people these days are not so much interested in being informed as being entertained -- and having their ideas reinforced]
• · · We had to give them water so that they could get hold of themselves and continue An Iranian Cleric Turns Blogger for Reform
• · · · Dart-throwers should have tougher hides Heartaches of Journalist Bloggers ; [What they do, it seems to me, is the reporter is supposed to be humble; a reporter is supposed to ask questions and not be a know-it-al Know-it-all Instapundits]
• · · · · I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. The other Marx: Media Bloggers Association names new members
• · · · · · Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we here in Kosland are at the cutting edge of technology. As Markos noted early last month, many Kossacks have already ditched Internet Explorer in favor of the vastly superior FireFox browser What's on Your Hard Drive? ; Hard core Science and the Latest Scientific News - from New Scirus Search Slave
[So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. ]