The Media Drop

Jeff Jarvis makes some great points on the announcement of Howard Stern’s removal from some Clear Channel stations. A huge outpouring of comments on the post as well and some great links to external references.
I have no problem with people having issues with certain decency. I have no problem with Clear […]

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Lore Sjöberg over at Wired News writes today about the Alternative Press Expo, which took place in San Francisco this past weekend.
The moral to the story? “[T]he printed page still has a cachet that the Web can’t hope to match.”
For once, print truly seems to reign over the realm of the techno-savvy. I’d […]

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Molly Ivins thinks that not only should we keep paying attention to John Edwards, but that perhaps we need to re-think how we’re reacting towards the end of Howard Dean’s campaign for the Democratic Nomination.
Ivins points out that Dean “did tap into some real political anger,” and asks, “What was so scary about […]

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Definitely check out PJNet’s interview with Tom Mangan, copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News.
Mangan makes some great points about why editors are still necessary, even though people thorougly enjoy reading a lot of unaltered blogs. And he’s spot on. Sure, some blogs make a point of cranking out posts […]

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editorsweblog.org points us to an article from last May at ReadMe where Steve Bryant talks big about bloggers, including Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, and Dan Gillmor.
The editorsweblog folks preface the link/writeup with “It’s not recent, but it remains a good synthesis on what is collaborative journalism.” and I don’t think I need to add […]

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Yesterday’s article by Timothy Karr over at MediaChannel.org asks “Could Kerry Suffer the ‘Dean Effect’?”
I, for one, don’t think this would occur, as I truly think that Kerry has a significant lead and don’t see his campaign exploding anytime soon. I do, however, believe that John Edwards could absolutely take the nomination for the […]

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My read for the day is this post by Tim Porter where he describes his coinage “informational incest” to a T. If you didn’t understand what the term was before, read the post and the included links, and it should be clear as day.
By telling is how it is, not by being “media personalities…commentators…hawkers, […]

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Cyberjournalist.net reports on changes taking place at that other New York-area focused newspaper, Newsday.
Changes have taken place on both the website and in the print edition, with a major change is the “back-page approach, which takes the tabloid’s longtime sports section design — which begins on the back page — and emulates it in other […]

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Jeff Jarvis posts an update to Sunday’s post about the George Meagher quote issue in the New York Times. Looks like a correction is forthcoming, and that Mr. Meagher is not a Republican.

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It’s been chimed in on from a few places, including Instapundit and Buzz Machine (via Instapundit…), but I think this is worth making a bigger deal of. The New York Times quoted a gentleman named George Meagher in this article on February 3rd, stating he was an Independent. Yesterday, the Times quoted Meagher […]

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