A Code of Conduct (in the making) for Content Aggregators (0)
3/15/12 •
Tired of writing great content online, only to have a mainstream site or blog pick it up, and bury the link back to your own website so that you’re essentially getting ripped off in terms…
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The Criminal Joseph Kony and Invisible Children’s Crusade for Justice (0)
3/11/12 •
When an organization creates a video that goes viral by calling for justice against a despicable war criminal (Joseph Kony), a man who’s directly responsible for recruiting child soldiers and over-seeing the murders of countless…
Swedish Photographer, Reporter branded “terrorists” in Ethiopian Show Trial (0)
12/28/11 •
Breaking: An Ethiopian court has declared Swedish photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye guilty of supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally, according to an AFP report.
“Guilty as charged, period, unanimous vote,” the…
Christopher Coke, and a massacre in Jamaica (0)
12/14/11 •
Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone.
Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds…
Are Celebukid Reporters and Newsertainment the wave of the future? (0)
11/14/11 •
According to Gawker it is. Here’s an interested snippet on the “rise” of “Celebukid Reporters and News-ertainment”
“Even after the rise of cable news and online news, network “news” broadcasts are still the biggest single…
Andy Rooney RIP (0)
11/08/11 •
Via Washington
November 5, 2011 – CBS writer, producer, and commentator Andy Rooney passed away Friday evening at the age of 92, only a month after retiring from his long and legendary media career. The precise…
News Photo of the Day – Nov 8, 2011 (0)
11/08/11 •
via Gawker: It’s a bleak landscape for the mighty black rhinoceros. The WWF announced this week that 353 of the endangered mammals, whose horn is incorrectly thought to have cancer-curing powers, have been poached this…
Occupy Wall Street Has Gone Global (0)
10/25/11 •
And the Atlantic is asking why…
“The Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York City a month ago gained worldwide momentum over the weekend, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in nine hundred cities…
Biased reporting by REUTERS on Gilad Shalit agreement (with examples) (1)
10/12/11 •
It seems that Jeffrey Heller, Douglas Hamilton, Andrew Heavens of Reuters.org have an interesting way of reporting a simple news item that’s been covered by other organizations with a bit more objectivity. Here’s…
To serve and to protect – Wall Street? (0)
10/07/11 •
Another wild night in New York City at the Occupy Wall Street protests. Here you can see footage of a Senior NYPD officer beating back the crowd tonight at the rally in downtown Manhattan…
