I went off to college, learned a little something about thickening your skin and doing what you know in your gut is right ...
-Forrest Brown recalls his days as a teenaged hand-wringing nerd
Paul Farhi says that compared with the rest of the media industry, newspapers are doing no worse, and in some respects quite a bit better, than the competition -- including the Internet. The Washington Post newsman acknowledges it will take skill, vision and creativity for newspapers to survive, "but I'd bet on success sooner than I'd bet on failure. It may be that newspapers are dinosaurs. But then again, dinosaurs walked the earth for millions of years." Newspapers about to die? Don't bet on it, says WP's Farhi
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Feeding the beast: I'm not a victim of anything but my own shortcomings
Few in Australia (sic) are across the full details of the evidence but that hasn't prevented our media commentators from running their own trial of the Indonesian's justice system.
There has of course been good reporting on the Corby case, and most of it out of Bali but it's impact has been swamped by the trial by media conducted back in Australia. Much of this has been conducted on the premise that we know Schapelle is innocent, it's the Indonesians and their legal system that are in the dock. Ignorance has held no-one back. 2GB's Alan Jones has been an important player.
• Media trial or kangaroo court? [Congressional Quarterly's A.B. Stoddard says Washington Post and CNN media reporter Howard Kurtz is the target of both fair criticism from industry peers and unfair criticism from some liberal bloggers, who question whether he's tilting toward the right now that he's married to a Republican. Stoddard's verdict: Kurtz appears to meet the burden of fair coverage — no one has found a pulled punch to date Everyone’s a Critic ; Media Watch Meet the Corby's ]
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