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Much ado is being made about Dan Rather's criticism of journalism and TV news in particular, and much that's been written and said about his comments proves his point.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - An Afghan journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen Tuesday night in her home north of Kabul as she slept beside her 10-month- old baby, Afghan officials said Wednesday.
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Many lament the decline of newspaper journalism in the soon to be editorially downsized San Francisco Chronicle. He puts forth some good examples of the types of investigative journalism that are at risk of being defunded.Here's an interesting: Should Google and other online companies should start subsidizing journalism?
Tending 'Defiant Gardens' during wartime

A story on the practice of soldiers cultivating gardens during wartime. See snurl.com/uscl for a case of this in modern-day Syria. Interesting.
Overall, MSNBC and CNN were much more consumed with the war in Iraq than was Fox. MSNBC, for instance, devoted nearly a third of the time studied to the war (26% on the policy debate, 3% on events on the ground and 2% the homefront). Fox, by contrast, spent less than half that much time on the war, 15% in all.
It was reading The Guardian that did it. There was page after page, 15 of them, yesterday morning, of men writing about men: not a single female byline, nor a single prominent female photograph (there was a tiny one of Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller). Barely a woman in sight till I got to Polly Toynbee.
It does no disservice to Landay and Strobel to say that there was nothing particularly astounding about the work they did in exposing the Bush/Cheney administration's lies and deceptions in the two-year campaign to put the country at war against Iraq.
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" aired at least eight segments on a purported "news" story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.
How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported? 90 minute documentary.
It only assumes significance if you make it matter by continuing to treat it as though it has legitimacy and supremacy over all other forms of communications. However, if you attempt to make your own media matter, then you can acquire an audience despite refusing to submit to the "old guard" - which is becoming obsolescent, anyway.
CNN remains the most trusted source among those surveyed, just slightly higher than the next most trusted sources CBS's 60 Minutes (27%), C-SPAN (25%) and Fox News (25%).
Interesting experiment

Interesting experiment in new journalism practices.
AUSTIN, TEXAS--To longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather, American journalism in recent years "has in some ways lost its guts." During his hour-long keynote address Monday at South by Southwest Interactive, Rather opined at length on the state of his profession, in which too many journalists have become lapdogs to power, rather than watch
This is not another wiki. Assignment Zero is a new kind of website, one of the first of its kind tailored specifically to supporting a distributed newsgathering team. Everyone contributes reporting and at in the end, some pieces will get published and a final news piece will be produced for Wired News. This news story, is shared by all.
This may be the worst, sloppiest, most dishonest piece of reporting I've ever seen in the NYT. It's got all the hallmarks of a vintage Gore hit piece: half-truths, outright falsehoods, unsubstantiated quotes, and a heaping dose of innuendo.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's 2007 "State of the News Media" report is out.
Video shot by Joseph La Sac shows an officer demanding the student turn off his camera. La Sac was there to document the controversial onloading of Stryker military equipment to a ship bound for the Iraq war. [via Lost Remote]
New French law says that only professional journalists can film or broadcast acts of violence.
By Peter Johnson, USA TODAY The "social journalism" that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy godmother is the new rage in network and cable news, and it's expanding to other media...Experts say the competitive landscape, the need to be different and to keep eyeballs returning, is driving this trend, along with a genuine desire from
Bob Woodward, the US journalist who helped break the Watergate scandal, called Wednesday on reporters to take more time on stories after the US media's handling of the run-up to the Iraq war.
MSNBC has just launched a citizen journalism section on their website called FirstPerson. Content you send in may be published online, and in some cases could be featured on NBC News and MSNBC-TV programs.
Every February, May, and November, the local television stations put aside their responsibility to report actual news, such as how John McCain is flip-flopping on his campaign finance reform beliefs, and instead bring us night after night of sensationalistic crap.









