Journalism, the World and the Future
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Just saw the best example of how local issues have an international component. Fairfax County (Virginia) sent out a tweet today encouraging everyone in the country to fill in and return the 2010 census forms along with a link to see the full message. One line in the attached notice tells the underlining reason all […]
From a friend who has been there and done that… Colleagues: What a difference a character makes, and the AP is to blame (I just checked). My own daily newspaper, despite my tip-off yesterday, incorrectly spelled the name of the newly inaugurated Chilean president as Sebastian “Pinera.” It is “Piñera.” So newspapers all over the […]
This week Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels, got down and dirty in the editing process. He issued a memo of 119 words and phrases he no longer wanted used on the company’s radio station, WGN. It really is hard to argue with him over the use of most of these trite and useless phrases. I […]
The L.A. Times has a good review of the Chief Justice John Roberts Stepping Down flurry. And I can’t agree more with the subhead: The lesson behind the Chief Justice Roberts rumor An example from a law professor’s lecture becomes a case study on the perils of a wired world. Bottom line is that some […]
Anatomy of a Rumor: The Story Behind Chief Justice John Roberts’s ‘Retirement’ Clearly a student sent out an immediate tweet on what the law prof said. I would feel even worse if this happened in a journalism class but this is a good teaching experience for journalists. This episode shows the down side of tweets […]
