Recently readLuke Ford is on something of a roll right now. First, a journalist asks, Who has time to read blogs? Luke answers:
Who has time to read good new books? Nobody has time to read all the good new books, yet I don’t read Daphne Merkin wondering about that…People will read what they believe they will […]
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I was supposed to spend some quality time with Adriana yesterday, not having seen her since we were working together in New York last week, but unfortunately was (am) still unwell. Well, my loss is your gain, as it looks like she finally got down to some blogging. I am always yelling at her to […]
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Contrary to what is being reported by the BBC and other media, blogger Guido Fawkes is the one who lodged the formal complaint with the Charities Commission that many are saying could bring down PM-in-waiting Gordon Brown, not the Conservative ‘opposition’. You’d think reporters would spot the juicy story that lies in the truth; either […]
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Luke Ford (who, annoyingly, has no permalinks):
…LA Times staffers are like a battered wife who dreams about being rescued. Times staffers are so desperate that they’ll imagine good things about a vindictive man such as Geffen.
The Tribune is a professional newspaper operation and the LA Times has been vastly improved by the Tribune’s weeding out […]
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This morning, I called the reporter who wanted to write a story about what happened to me, so I could tell him I did not want to do it. He was “in conference,” so I left a message explaining my decision. I’m in no doubt that this is the right one for me. Thanks for […]
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And they say bloggers have a hard time getting the facts right…
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On my way out to the Eagle Bar Diner last night, I was chuffed to see Hugh’s cartoons on the BBC 6 O’clock News as they did a big story on the Threshers deal. (Short version: Hugh and the guys at Stormhoek blogged a voucher for 40 per cent off all alcohol purchases from Threshers. […]
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I’m always troubled by those who are so insistent on rubbishing any new thing that comes down the pike. And so it has gone, predictably, with Dave Winer’s River of News idea and implementation.
Lots of people hate on Dave (”Dave Winer? Most aptly named man in the universe,” sniffed one internet industry CEO the […]
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Is it just me, or is the Reuters scandal not getting nearly as much offline media attention as it deserves?
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There is nothing pleasant about what is happening in the Middle East right now, but you might want to consider the source of some of the reports coming out of Lebanon.
I have a very dear Lebanese friend and very dear Israeli friends, and so find it difficult to blog about this without pissing somebody off. […]
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I shouldn’t be blogging this, but…Well, last night, we were invited to observe a meeting of the vast right-wing conspiracy. I had no idea that our friend Scott Norvell (European bureau chief of Fox News and quite obviously a complete pawn of Christian fundamentalists, the Jews, the Bush administration, Halliburton, and a bunch of other […]
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Brian Micklethwait has the goods.
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I do love it when other people so eloquently express annoyance at something that I have been worked up about for quite awhile, but have never found the words to explain. Our friend Brian Micklethwait does a very good job in taking on the trad media’s ludicrous scaremongering headlines, illustrated with a cracking photo he […]
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It was never really about bias, but about the inescapable truth that we each view the world through our own unique prisms, shaped by life experiences and other influences. Non-disclosure of those worldviews just makes things shady. Jeff Jarvis:
[J]ournalists do not own or even decide the truth. It is their job to help the public […]
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