Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility • The Register. Another Ted Dziuba rant on the sorry state of tech reporting.


JFK speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association. great stuff.

Charles Bremner - Times Online - Eiffel Tower hit by fantasy. i linked to this story the other day.

CJR: Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib. fantastic interview about his new movie, the failure of journalism, and how pictures can lie. “Usually visuals are designed to stop us from thinking, not to encourage us to think.”

The Great NAFTA Debate : Little Bites of Point. What’s more shocking : how young Al Gore looks or that Larry King had a civil debate for 90 minutes on something other than celebrity gossip?

Afghan journalism student given death sentence - CBC News. for discussing something that “violated the tenets of islam”. and it was done by a secret court. i’m so glad Canada is fighting for “freedom” over there.

60 Minutes takes a dump on “millennials” - (37signals). when i saw this piece the other day i thought it was laughably bad. some really subjective reporting by a quality news source. quite sad.

Lululemon stock sinks on seaweed report | Reuters.co.uk. couple interesting things here. first, they blatently lied. second, the new york times article started because of a short seller of lululemon. sounds like a jim cramer move.

Dear Diary: The Dalai Lama. i saw a couple links to this before i actually checked it out. i can’t believe this got by any editorial board at a real newspaper. that isn’t fit for print in the Toronto Sun.

Mochila - The Media Marketplace. buy and sell rights to articles, photos, and videos. Companies like Reuters and Hearst media are already partners.

NPR: When Good Interviews Go Bad “last Friday the [Sigur Ros] showed up promptly at 11am and commenced to give what is possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media. Seriously. It was that bad.” via josh

ESPN’s own ombudsman takes ESPN to task for “reporting” too much gossip and opinion. “The audience starves for reported fact”. nice critique. via anton.

Ahmadinejad walks away with a win - Los Angeles Times. great piece of the mishandling of the Admadinejad visit. via boris.

Murdoch makes case for free WSJ online - Yahoo! News. first the new york times, now the wall street journal?

NY Times to End Charges on Web Site. now anyone can access content back to 1987.

Bloomberg.com: Wells Fargo Gorges on Mark-to-Make-Believe Gains. business news needs more reporters like this guy. this stuff reeks of enron. via amr.

How powerful is Citizen Murdoch now? | csmonitor.com. NewsCorp (Fox) acquired the Dow Jones company (including the Wall Street Journal).

Media Matters - Libby, Bush and the lapdog press. more on the horrible state of the press and the strongarming of the whitehouse. via ram.

Bill Moyers Journal - Buying The War. a long piece aboutmainstream media’s utter failure in reporting the build up to the iraq war. some great comments by the knight-ridder reporters who got it right and bob simon of 60 minutes.

Bill Moyers Journal | Interview with Jon Stewart. a pretty serious conversation about the daily show and the state of the world. 30+ minutes long.