Media Can Kiss Military Access Goodbye"Journalists are going to have a much tougher job covering the war in Afghanistan in the wake of Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone debacle, senior National Journal correspondent James Kitfield predicts today. 'There will be no embeds in Afghanistan in higher headquarters for quite a while,' he tells NPR. 'The ( Read more... )

Some lulz from HuffPo remind me why working in a newsroom was so damn fun:

When Headlines Don't Match

Headline fails

Corrections, always entertaining

Classifieds bring out the crazies

I LOVE Cracked.com and have easily spent hours reading their different lists. Here are a few I ran across that are journalism-related.


6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises Bullshit As Fact

I call bullshit on this list because I'm pretty sure the writer's beef is with MSM, not ALL of the news.

5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are NewsThis ( Read more... )

Fox News 'Divided' Over Glenn Beck, Journalists Worried About His Popularity"The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz Monday describes Fox News a "a network divided" over its most recent star, Glenn Beck ( Read more... )

Supposedly, a fight breaks out between producers(?) during an Italian broadcast:

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I have no idea if it was staged, pre-recorded broadcast or what, but it's still damn funny.

Just now found this site: Overheard in the Newsroom. If you have already heard of this site and didn't share it sooner, then SHAME ON YOU.

My favourites so far:

Anchor: “I don’t want to go outside in the snow. It’ll mess up my hair. And my makeup. And my attitude.”

Reporter: “I didn’t know elephants could even get herpes ( Read more... )

Don't Touch That Dial!: A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook."A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was ( Read more... )

New York Times Reporter Caught PlagiarizingA New York Times business reporter has been caught cribbing text directly from the Wall Street Journal and other sources, the Times sheepishly admitted in an editor’s note today. The Times says the Journal alerted them to uncanny similarities between a Journal article published Feb. 5, and a Times DealBook ( Read more... )

I don't follow fashion news, but apparently some big-shot in the industry died and this little bit (about 9 grafs in) caught my eye ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin: Fox News Contributor

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced Monday.

(Continued...)More than a few people on my friends list have just ( Read more... )