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On April 18, Lowry Mays, chairman of radio giant Clear Channel, will receive the broadcast industry's "Distinguished Service Award." Distinguished service to whom? Not to you and other Americans. But Lowry isn't alone. He's one among many media kingpins who put their own political and business interests ahead of the public. Hall of Shame
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Over the Wall
In the past week, I have attended five panels on blogs, new media and 21st century media relations.
The first was organized by Reuters, the second by the 21 Club and the other three by the Arthur W. Page Society. The panelists included: David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School; Leslie Stahl, host of CBS' 60 Minutes; Brooke Gladstone of National Public Radio; Michael Wolf of McKinsey; Gordon Krovitz of Dow Jones; Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times Company; Garrett Graff, contributing editor of Fishbowl who is first blogger accredited to cover White House press briefings; Jon Carson of Buzzmetrics; John Fund, author of "Political Diary" for OpinionJournal.com; Halley Suitt, author of weblog Halley's Comment.
• Walled Garden [Google's chief executive officer and co-founders are taking a page out of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' book Google chiefs agree to work for $1 ; Another "Journalist" on a Government Payroll - Boston Globe ; More tales of journalists behaving badly Fave Dave raves – the Penberthy files ]
• · 'Geek speak' confuses net users; Blogging like marriage is all about accepting some of the suffering: Despite difficulties Blogger and Media Dragon report no Domestic Dispute; The Decadent West is the most visited weblog on the planet, attracting over 1,000,000,000,000 visitors a second. The Decadent West ;-D
• · · The evolution of citizen journalism on mainstream news sites may seem painfully slow, but the experiments to date are making significant -- albeit incremental -- advances. I'll mention just a few to illustrate: Citizen journalism still too early in its evolution ; Tales from the front lines Part 1: The transparent newsroom ; Jack Shafer notes that Fox News rarely attracts an audience larger than about 3.5 million, not much more than the number of people who tune in to PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Shafer writes: "American demagoguery just ain't what it used to be when a show (O'Reilly's) that deliberately taps the accessible emotions of 'anger, outrage, indignation, fear, despair, disgust, contempt, and a certain kind of a apocalyptic glee Fox News' formula seems popular, but take a closer look ; Captain Ed reports that General Motors has decided to stop advertising in the Los Angeles Times due to the paper’s habit of getting facts wrong
• · · · On the 40th anniversary of the publication of "In Cold Blood," University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism students set out to study Truman Capote's work and its impact on literature and journalism Journalism students get exclusive "In Cold Blood" interviews ; Gawker Media to launch British-style tabloid website ; Carnival of Indian Blogosphere Indian bloggers at one place (Links)
• · · · · Most people who write blogs just do it for kicks--as a way to vent, be creative and connect to a community News network to pay 'citizen journalists' ; Mitch Albom's editors had to know he was fabricating scenes Albom isn't the only Free Press staffer who lied to readers
• · · · · · Wilton Wynn, who retired from Time in 1985, "pent his career telling stories about other people. Now he tells his own story about how, after covering Pope John Paul II, he converted to Roman Catholicism Time's Wynn became a Catholic after covering the pope ; Claim: Newspapers need more gossip, blogs and tech advice ; The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin wrote about Beltway Buzz in his column today. I’ve never wanted to make a big deal out of this, but I was the first blogger to attend a White House briefing. First Blogger: Eric Pfeiffer Reporting