The Media Drop

Whether or not the “rights” of the photo Valleywag’s Owen Thomas is discussing here are at issue or not, at least we know that Reuters reads Engadget enough to snag some photos that the site used and republish them with their own item on the same topic.
Wow.

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When it comes to codes of conduct, ethics, and people being ever-so-stalwart to dig and dig into what people are doing and saying, the blogosphere has its serious ups and downs. But while the Web’s semi-disorganized yet sometimes-really-organized ways have left people to do much of the decision-making to themselves and the organizations they are […]

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ESPN.com just published an AP story about a writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal who was thrown out of Louisville’s game against Oklahoma State on Sunday. It seems that Brian Bennett was liveblogging the event on behalf of the newspaper, a no-no the association thought it had ruled out. The NCAA contends that this was a […]

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Wow, this is what I get for moving this weekend and being 99% out of the loop when it came to the news until tonight. Just read this item from the Times about how journalist David Halberstam was killed on Monday in San Francisco while on his way to an interview.
I’ve got to say that […]

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Taking a page out of the slacker handbook this week is apparently The Australian’s Frank Devine, who finds that sources are much more easy to get quotes from when you just Google the topic you are looking for, make a few key changes to the exact quotations and information that someone else acquired, and print […]

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From the stupid captions department, we find this example of a description of a fight breaking out in the middle of the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers game on Tuesday. It’s great that we now know that the Caps’ Alexander Ovechkin is “from Russia” when describing him. How fantastic is that.
Stupid. Oh, and Richards is […]

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This morning, Dan Gillmor published an open letter to the community of Bayosphere users, along with the rest of us who are interested (and part of) the citizen journalism community. It’s a must-read, IMHO, and can shed some light on the ins and outs of putting together a successful community of newsgatherers, interested readers, and […]

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So, you’re looking for transparency in journalism or a reason why journalists might like having a blog? Check out this post by Jackie Corley, a writer at The Courier, a local publication in Central New Jersey.
Jackie had written up an article about a town’s mayor who was picked up on a DWI charge last […]

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Like him or not, James Wolcott does ring the bell very well sometimes, which is why he’s in my RSS reader. This week, he’s calling out journalists for their continued cracking on bloggers for their “work habits” when, as it turns out, there are plenty of journalists who aren’t exactly on the up and up […]

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Over at Lost Remote, Steve Safran mentions the term “legacy journalists” being used to describe those who wrote for what most bloggers and “new media” folk call the mainstream media. I think it’s kind of an obnoxious usage, because there is no need to defame those who are practicing journalism through “old” media outlets like […]

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