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Rod Begbie : Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News - Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action. [via] #
Andy Baio : How to Report the News - from Charlie Brooker's News Wipe
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nelson : Guantanamo murders - Detailed investigative journalism into the three simultaneous deaths of prisoners at Guantanamo. The suicide story doesn't hold much water.
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Rod Begbie : Scots 'drink 46 bottles of vodka' - "People in Scotland drank 25% more alcohol per head of population than individuals in England and Wales." Is it wrong that I read this and felt a sense of nationalistic pride? #
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Greg Storey : What the French loved and hated in 2009. - From the Airbag Foreign Culture Desk. #
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Greg Storey : The Transportation Department does what Congress should have done decades ago. - Thank you Secretary LaHood. #
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Greg Storey : The Auschwitz "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign has been stolen. - "Polish leaders have declared recovering the...sign a national priority." #
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nelson : CIA disappearances - Interesting, detailed investigative journalism about Aafia Siddiqui, a woman who may or may not have been detained by the CIA in Pakistan.
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Rod Begbie : Is Porn's Bad Reputation Overstated? - CNBC - "Lajeunesse initially had hoped to conduct the research with men in their twenties who had never seen porn. "We couldn't find any," he says." #
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joshua : Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
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Greg Storey : Looks like Balloon Dad has a anger issues. - Send him to G-Bay and have him do all the environmental cleanup. #
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gleuschk : Rescuing The Reporters « Clay Shirky - I'd really like to try this with the Syracuse paper
philgyford : Rescuing The Reporters « Clay Shirky - On how much of a local newspaper is actual news, and suggesting that they should be non-profit organisations.
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Greg Storey : Conde Nast is closing the doors on Gourmet magazine. - The Rocket Scientist is going to be pissed off six ways to Sunday when she hears about this. Nast, I hope you wear a cup. #
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Greg Storey : A Daily Beast investigation shows McVeigh made have had a second accomplice. - Justice, apparently, still has some work ahead. #
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Greg Storey : Can we take a moment to think...about the fact that Polanski pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, before we start talking about what a victim he is? - Burn him. #
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Greg Storey : Wolf Blitzer is an idiot. - This is exactly why I don't watching cable television news "pundits". Morons, Eleven. #
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Greg Storey : Station Fire. - While I was there it looked like an atomic bomb had just gone off. #
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nelson : Buying the news - The Kaycee story is so hot apparently news agencies are paying for exclusives with neighbours
Andy Baio : Media outlets paying sources in Dugard - one source claimed her Facebook page was hacked by reporters [via]
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Andy Baio : Matt Thompson on the missing parts of news coverage - too much focus on "news" and not enough context
joshua : The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org
philgyford : The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org - We get "What just happened". We don't get "The longstanding facts", "How journalists know what they know" and "The things we don't know". Good stuff. (via Daring Fireball)
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Greg Storey : "AOL has been scooping up talented journalists right and left, with some 1,500 on board already - a number it expects to double or even triple over the coming year." - You've got journalism! #
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Greg Storey : "The primary problem with newspaper companies isn't their revenue. It's the size and scope of their operations." - So how do you make cuts that won't kill the creation of the main product?
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Greg Storey : "Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites." - If people can worship a spaghetti monster then I suppose this is possible.
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Greg Storey : This was no accident. - Dolphins are finally coming out of the closet with their plans to wipe mankind of the planet.
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Greg Storey : "Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites." - If people can worship a spaghetti monster then I suppose this is possible.
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