Tag Archive 'Journalism'

A case regarding citizen journalists proves, once again, that bad facts make for bad law

on Dec 26 2011 | Filed under: Blogs and Blogging, Law, Media matters

When I first saw the headline — “A $2.5 Million Libel Judgment Brings The Question : Are  Bloggers Journalists?” — I have to admit that I felt a bit queasy.  When I write something snide about President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or any of the other prominent Democrats I routinely criticize at this site, [...]

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A singularly unfortunate photo placement

on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Media matters, Silly Stuff

I tend to check out the Yahoo! News aggregator periodically, because it’s a good way to see what the Yahoo algorithm decides is “popular.”  I’m pretty sure a computer program generates the images that go with the tagged news stories, and sometimes the computer makes some very bizarre choices, that have everything to do with [...]

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Journalists versus gadflies

on Aug 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters

I find amusing, in a bitter kind of way, the first sentence in a New York Times article about Jerome Corsi’s book on Obama, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (which is, by the way, one of Amazon’s top sellers and will debut this week as No. 1 on the Times‘ [...]

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