| CJR http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:08:34 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Traffic Jam Bucking trends, traffic for The Atlantic, Drudge, and HuffPo is actually up post-election, according to Nate Silver and Alexa. Everyone else--including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, and TPM--is down. http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/traffic_jam.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/traffic_jam.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:08:34 -0500 AP Lifts Military Photo Ban The Associated Press has lifted its week-old ban on using military-issued photographs after the Pentagon “assured the news cooperative that it would avoid distributing altered images to the news media,” the AP's Richard Lardner reported today. The organization has also revised its policy for dealing with photos retrieved from an external source, in order to ensure the “integrity of photos.”... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/ap_lifts_military_photo_ban.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/ap_lifts_military_photo_ban.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:31:27 -0500 White House, Gray Lady New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet has just named the paper's new White House team. It includes, as rumored, Peter Baker, Helene Cooper, Sheryl Stolberg, Ben Werschkul, and Jeff Zeleny. Baquet revealed the assignments in a memo sent to staff earlier today; E&P has its text. http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/white_house_gray_lady.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/white_house_gray_lady.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:22:47 -0500 Kakutani's a Poet...and, Oh, She Let Us Know It Michiko Kakutani seems to have taken a page from pal MoDo's playbook. And not, um, a good one. In today's Times, the feared-therefore-beloved/beloved-therefore-feared book critic reviews the latest effort, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, from Calvin Trillin. Who is--had you heard?--not only a prolific New Yorker writer, but also The... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/kakutanis_a_poetand_oh_she_let.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/kakutanis_a_poetand_oh_she_let.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:16:13 -0500 Subscribe, Get Happy Some ready-made advertising copy for newspapers hoping to grow circulations: Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. Such are the good news from John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/subscribe_get_happy.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/subscribe_get_happy.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:55:15 -0500 She's Accepted! Sources Say! So it seems, my friends, that we have arrived at the final installment of the weeklong dramedy that has been When No Drama Meets Whoa, Drama: the Nomination of Hillary Clinton. The Times is reporting that Clinton has indeed accepted the president-elect's much-written about/much-leaked-about offer to become the nation's top diplomat. Prepare, in the week ahead, for... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/shes_accepted_sources_say.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/shes_accepted_sources_say.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:46:28 -0500 Election Postmortem: Technology and the Press The 2008 presidential campaign found the political press embracing technology and interactivity like never before. (Or, at least, attempting to do so.) During the primaries, number-crunching delegate counters appeared on numerous news sites. Reporters and bloggers hopped on board the Twitter train while covering the Democratic and Republican national conventions. CNN’s color-coded “squiggly lines” tried to communicate how undecided voters... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/election_postmortem_technology.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/election_postmortem_technology.php Campaign Desk Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:36 -0500 Extra-Censory Perception Project Censored has released its annual (and forward-looking) list of the "Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009." Among them: #6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act#11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror#20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record Some of the list are obvious ("#9: Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify"), and some are of questionable merit ("#24:... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_we_missed.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_we_missed.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:27 -0500 Copy Editors to the World: Teehee! So. A brief vocabulary lesson. A dingleberry, for those of you who didn't grow up on a farm, is--and I quote the OED--"dried faecal matter attached to the hair around the anus," usually (one hopes) in reference to animals. (Other, less common uses, per the same: "a fool, a stupid person (slang)"; "the female breasts (slang)"; and "a cranberry, Vaccinium... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/copy_editors_to_the_world_teeh.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/copy_editors_to_the_world_teeh.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:07:55 -0500 Politico: "We'll Do It Live" Politico's editors and reporters (bloggers included) are dissecting Election '08 at a conference at USC today. Watch it live, here. http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/politico_live.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/politico_live.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:48:18 -0500 Chicken Soup for the (Campaign Junkie's) Soul Hey, politics junkies! Are you going through campaign withdrawal? Do you find yourself, in the quiet moments of the day, longing for Contessa Brewer to interrupt her news-reading with a "Breaking Campaign Trail Alert"? Do you find your index finger, without your brain telling it do so, clicking on your RealClearPolitics bookmark, its reflex rendered pointless when you remember that... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/chicken_soup_for_the_campaign.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/chicken_soup_for_the_campaign.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:40:13 -0500 Blog Gridlock! The eminently quotable Michael Kinsley has a nice piece, in this week's Time, about blog gridlock (a topic we explore in detail, by the way, in the current issue of the magazine). Among Kinsley's Potent Quotables: But aggregation has become a hall of mirrors. "Did you see Romenesko this morning? Yeah, very interesting.... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/blog_gridlock.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/blog_gridlock.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:23:43 -0500 Salon Rakes the Muck Last month, Salon published an article investigating the deaths of Army Pfc. Albert Nelson and Pfc. Roger Suarez, two soldiers serving in Iraq. The Army attributed their deaths to enemy action; Mark Benjamin's Salon report, which included graphic battle video (footage from a helmet-cam) and eyewitness testimony, suggested that the soldiers' deaths were likely caused by friendly fire. Now,... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/post_147.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/post_147.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:20 -0500 Is This Where We Are? Wednesday night, Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida resident, overdosed on a toxic combination of benzodiazepine, a depressant used to treat insomnia, and opiates, killing himself. He did so in front of a live Web audience--some of whom, apparently, were "encouraging him" to go forward with the suicide. "People were egging him on and saying things... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/is_this_where_we_are.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/is_this_where_we_are.php The Kicker Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:44 -0500 On the Importance of Cultivating Sources On November 19, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer and The New York Times's Andrew C. Revkin were presented with the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism and spoke at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Mayer was honored for her reporting on the use of torture by the Bush administration. (Two examples of her excellent work can be seen... http://www.cjr.org/audio/on_the_importance_of_cultivati.php http://www.cjr.org/audio/on_the_importance_of_cultivati.php Audio Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:09:59 -0500 _uacct = "UA-417896-1"; urchinTracker(); |
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