rejournalization

Ever behind the times (pun intended), the New York Times has published an article on some of the best of the online alternatives to radio, such as Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker (check out my last.fm profile to see what I’ve been listening to recently). The article only briefly touches upon the royalty/copyright issues, especially the […]

March 29th, 2007
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Network World is reporting that Life Magazine is dead print-wise for the third time in its storied history. Initially killed in the early 70s because they could not sustain themselves on their already high advertising rates, Life was brought back from the dead a few years later, only to be closed a second time in […]

March 27th, 2007
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Editor & Publisher filed this article on the myriad of news organizations that mistakenly reported that presidential candidate John Edwards would end his bid due to his wife’s latest cancer scare based on one incorrect story that got its information from one incorrect (and unchecked) source:
Outlets falling for it ranged from MSNBC to the Washington […]

March 24th, 2007
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Some editor at WNBC (NY) made a big oops when he or she decided to include imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman a celebrity on a feature article on blind celebs. Oops.
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March 15th, 2007
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The New York Times reports that three teenage girls were suspended from their high school for:
“using one of the title words from “The Vagina Monologues” at a school event.”
“Monologues” is an evil, evil word and must not be uttered around children or anal-retentive adults!

March 8th, 2007
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According to their graphics department. Via DailyKos.

March 6th, 2007
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BMG Music (owned by Bertelsmann), had been subject of a class action lawsuit by one Eric Stelk:
The Action was filed on August 20, 2004. The complaint alleges that Defendant engaged in deceptive, misleading, and unfair marketing and sales practices in regard to its shipping and handling charges and its advertised cost to consumers of […]

March 6th, 2007
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News media and politicians are up in arms because conservative pundit Ann Coulter indirectly called Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot” during a PAC meeting. Interesting how they’ve no problem saying the F-word, but if you print the word “niggardly” you’re bound to get tar, feathered, drawn and quartered and damned for the rest […]

March 5th, 2007
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Rejournalization is not a fan of Paris Hilton, hating the fact that we have to constantly see her in our myriad of news feeds. The revered Associated Press, apparently, isn’t too fond of her, either. Last week they opted to not publish any story about the dumbfounding heiress celebutard:
It turned out that people noticed plenty […]

March 4th, 2007
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