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Sep. 6th, 2005 08:57 am"Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back..."
Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? (BBC)
Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? (BBC)
Zombie Terrorism
Mar. 9th, 2005 01:19 pmFor those that have heard about the zombie terrorist kid, make sure you check out this more thorough reporting of events, discovered by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dreadpiratetait, before you get up in arms (or braaaaaiiiiinnnnnsss) about making horror fiction a felony crime.
Addendum: What's great about this is seeing how fast it moved before anyone did any further research - I checked when I first found the story - by way ofjuanfandango's typist - and did a quick Google on it.
The number of links in the last hour or so has more than doubled, and I still can't locate the one Jenny found. In fact, I can't locate anything that isn't going on and on about how silly - or Orwellianly Evil - it is that William Poole was arrested for writing fiction.
I did see a few in the early search that echoed my sentiment of "Wait and see if Snopes debunks it," but those seem to have been flooded out by the outraged and/or amused throng.
It will be interesting to see what kind of equilibrium is reached, and how many will call the ending result a coverup or conspiracy.
Modern media in(space optional)action - a perpetually spinning wheel!
Addendum Redux: more info
dreadpiratetait, before you get up in arms (or braaaaaiiiiinnnnnsss) about making horror fiction a felony crime.Addendum: What's great about this is seeing how fast it moved before anyone did any further research - I checked when I first found the story - by way of
juanfandango's typist - and did a quick Google on it. The number of links in the last hour or so has more than doubled, and I still can't locate the one Jenny found. In fact, I can't locate anything that isn't going on and on about how silly - or Orwellianly Evil - it is that William Poole was arrested for writing fiction.
I did see a few in the early search that echoed my sentiment of "Wait and see if Snopes debunks it," but those seem to have been flooded out by the outraged and/or amused throng.
It will be interesting to see what kind of equilibrium is reached, and how many will call the ending result a coverup or conspiracy.
Modern media in(space optional)action - a perpetually spinning wheel!
Addendum Redux: more info
Journalistic Integrity vs. Science
Nov. 11th, 2004 01:35 pmKeeping on an earlier theme, this article in the Columbia Journalism Review brings up some excellent points regarding journalism as it involves science.
The evolution meme seems to keep popping up around me lately - a show on Nova, a recent National Geographic article, and in this article as well. Curiously enough, my wife, raised partly in Christian schools in Eastern PA, says she doesn't believe in evolution. That just astounds me. As the NG article teases on its cover: "Was Darwin wrong?"
Ack.
The evolution meme seems to keep popping up around me lately - a show on Nova, a recent National Geographic article, and in this article as well. Curiously enough, my wife, raised partly in Christian schools in Eastern PA, says she doesn't believe in evolution. That just astounds me. As the NG article teases on its cover: "Was Darwin wrong?"
Ack.
Journalistic Integrity, or Lack Thereof
Nov. 9th, 2004 08:12 amOnce more, from Slashdot, apparently bloggers lack journalistic integrity...
Although it makes some interesting points, it seems somewhat a grab for attention in and of itself: don't believe the bloggers, listen to us instead!
In a poem I wrote back in 2001 ( roadkill ), I gathered up thoughts and impressions I had collected over the years - having nothing to do with blogs specifically - about how newspapers, and the journalists reporting for them, seemed to be failing. Like much of the writing advice I had seen in print in the 90's, newspapers seemed to be publishing material written for television scripts - lots of action, little substance, and in a sensationalist vein.
Perhaps the bloggers should focus a bit more and strive for journalistic integrity - that is, if they are trying to sell themselves off as something that should be held to such standards. Readers, however, certainly have some responsibility, at the least understanding that blogs are the opinions of the writer and the reality they write of may or may not be an accurate rendering.
As far as that goes, perhaps it is the dumbing down of the other media - who so often are accused of, and at least on occasion commit, similar sins regarding integrity - that have resulted in a populace trained to accept whatever they read as pre-digested and analyzed content that doesn't require independent thought.
Although it makes some interesting points, it seems somewhat a grab for attention in and of itself: don't believe the bloggers, listen to us instead!
In a poem I wrote back in 2001 ( roadkill ), I gathered up thoughts and impressions I had collected over the years - having nothing to do with blogs specifically - about how newspapers, and the journalists reporting for them, seemed to be failing. Like much of the writing advice I had seen in print in the 90's, newspapers seemed to be publishing material written for television scripts - lots of action, little substance, and in a sensationalist vein.
Perhaps the bloggers should focus a bit more and strive for journalistic integrity - that is, if they are trying to sell themselves off as something that should be held to such standards. Readers, however, certainly have some responsibility, at the least understanding that blogs are the opinions of the writer and the reality they write of may or may not be an accurate rendering.
As far as that goes, perhaps it is the dumbing down of the other media - who so often are accused of, and at least on occasion commit, similar sins regarding integrity - that have resulted in a populace trained to accept whatever they read as pre-digested and analyzed content that doesn't require independent thought.
