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Thursday - July 2, 2009
Media News I Learned Wednesday By Reading Facebook
On Wednesday, it seemed like everyone was posting links to media news as part of their Facebook status updates. (Well, everyone I know, anyway.) Here's a sampling of what I learned on FB yesterday.
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Tuesday - June 30, 2009
News About Video
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Monday - June 29, 2009
News About The News
- So, Would You Like To Buy The Boston Globe?
The NY Times Co. is now taking bids on Boston's leading newspaper.
- Coverage of Iranian Protests Has Forced News Orgs to Change Reporting Rules
Blogs have always been willing to post news first and ask questions about authenticity later. But according to this story from the NY Times, legacy media (AKA the mainstream media) have been forced to report stories using unconfirmed sources about the protests in Iran because of the crackdown on journalists in that country. One of the biggest sources of news out of Iran has been video shot by non-journalists and then posted through social media sites. No question that it's great to have such alternative sources of news available. But should it be the basis of reports from what most of us would consider credible news outlets? That's the more difficult question.
- Speaking of Which, Have You Been Reading Nico Pitney at HuffPost?
The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney has been live blogging the citizen journalism coming out of Iran over the last couple weeks and has been the real rock star of journalism on this story.
- Don't Assume Early News on MJ is True
Word to the wise - there are a number of false stories about Michael Jackson's death circulating on the Web. Whooda thunk it.
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Friday - June 26, 2009
What a Difference a Day Makes
Thursday morning, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz posted the following as his Facebook status:
Howard Kurtz Slow morning. No new Iran protests, no new sex scandals. Might have to do some reporting.
The big news was still Iran and the revelations about South Caroline governor Mark Sanford. I was putting together a post about the great job of reporting The State had done on the Sanford story. The paper had had the incriminating e-mails for several months, but hadn't reported on them because they didn't have the hard evidence needed to back them up. Then the paper sent reporter Gina Smith to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to stakeout the gate where passengers would exit from the plane from Buenos Aires. She was the only reporter there, and she got the first interview with Sanford. Good, old-fashioned Reporting 101 technique - an anonymous tip followed up by legwork.
Then the news came that 70s icon Farrah Fawcett had succumbed to her long battle with cancer. While she was best known for Charlie's Angels, a 1976 poster, and tragic-woman movies, she also made an excellent made-for-cable biopic about photographer Margaret Bourke-White's relationship with writer Erskine Caldwell.
And then late this afternoon the news broke on TMZ that Michael Jackson had been taken to the hospital suffering from cardiac arrest. If you've had the TV or the Internet on, you know the rest of the story by now. NBC and ABC went wall-to-wall with the story, as did the cable news channels. We have a revolution trying to take place in Iran, we have just lost the second Republican presidential hopeful in two weeks, and all that anyone wants to talk about is the death of Michael Jackson.
Here's a sample of the Facebook status messages that have shown up on my feed Thursday night.
- Eric RIP MJ
- Ali Ohh, Michael... Your music genius will be sorely missed in this world. :(
- Matt is saddened by the passing of the King of Pop... Michael Jackson.
- Lindsay RIP Michael Jackson Farrah and Ed!!!
- Charley Said You Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' You Got To Be Startin' Somethin' 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night. If youre thinkin of being my baby it dont matter if youre black or white. Oh brother please have mercy 'cause I just can't take it. Stop pressurin me, just stop pressurin' me stop pressurin' me Make me wanna scream. Just beat it. So, Annie Are You OK Are You OK, Annie?
- MK SO would have married Michael Jackson when I was twelve.
- Garrett Michael Jackson already has three albums on the top 10 selling albums on itunes...just 3 hours after his death.
- Alex why are people pissed about all the Michael Jackson status'. Same thing happened with Heath Ledger and you all didn't seem to care then? Silly opinionation.
- Courtney Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958-June 25, 2009) Rest In Peace............I loved listening to his music growing up! So sad he is gone.........
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