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The NYT looks at Liz Smith, long the doyenne of celebrity gossip, and finds her admitting she's not nasty enough to get her gig in today's media climate. An excerpt: In an interview last week, Ms. Smith admitted that the gossip industry has become so pervasive and ruthless that it is difficult to break through [...]
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Slate's Jack Shafer goes after L.A. Times media writer David Shaw for a column that gave the impression Shaw has read a lot of critical things about blogs, not not many actual blogs themselves. Shaw was writing about whether bloggers deserved the same protection from 'shield laws' (which allow journalists to protect the identity of [...]
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Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias on the disappearance of foreign news from the U.S. networks and her take on commuter dailies. First, foreign news: “Sept. 11, 2001 was my moment of truth,” says veteran CBS foreign correspondent Tom Fenton, now retired, on the line from London. In his new book Bad News: The Decline [...]
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Saw this on 10:51 a.m. Toronto: Eye Weekly took a look at the city's pro-blogs a few weeks ago — omitting, mysteriously, the aforementioned 10:51 a.m. Toronto. An excerpt: Until relatively recently, the blogosphere was dominated by personal blogs like Argentinean. That was, in fact, their main selling point: blogs offered individuals' responses to the [...]
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NYT public editor Daniel Okrent tries to throw cold water on the notion that the paper's editorial board controls the way news is reported. An excerpt: There may be perfectly sensible reasons why some readers believe that the news pages take direction from the editorial page, some of which I've discussed before, particularly the apparently normative, [...]
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The NYT's Paul Krugman on some of the disturbing developments out of the tragic Terri Schiavo case. It's chilling in places, both figuratively and literally. An excerpt: Before he saw the polls, Tom DeLay declared that “one thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo, to help elevate the visibility of what is going [...]
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An excerpt from the Reuters story via Yahoo! News: Three Romanian journalists were kidnapped in Iraq Monday, Romania's President Traian Basescu said. “We have alerted all the secret services and the foreign intelligence services of our allies to solve the case,” Basescu told Romanian TVR1 television. Two of the kidnapped journalists work for Romania's Prima [...]
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