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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    02:02 PM

    In reply to Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
    I'm traveling to China soon. I can't wait to read Car & Driver & Bicyclist Pinned Under Fender. #media
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12:04 PM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    I am uncertain about his future as a life coach, but fully approve his back-up plan to be the first African American spokes-doughboy for Pillsbury. #journalismism
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    Image of metropolitan metropolitan
    11:55 AM

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    a post about how twitter was not as relevant in iran as was hyped by the US media was promising until out of nowhere you go into the guy with the dust mask you talked to which has little do do with the topic.
    dude, you should have just tweeted that part. #iran
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11:38 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    Obviously now that Murdoch has a new toy (WSJ) he has grown bored of his old stuff.

    Good riddance (although I won't hold my breath just yet). #newyorkpost
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11:14 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    Andrea The Boner Slayer #newyorkpost
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10:29 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    When the post is reduced to a hotel room freebie, Col Allan will be promoted to even higher ranks. This is the Newscorp way. #newyorkpost
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10:11 AM

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Though the charges have since been dropped, but if an American can be arrested for twittering a "revolution", then our government can't really condemn others for cracking down on those in the field.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11:41 AM

    @Magister: .... and from a certain angle, mountains and molehills are the same shape, and therefore can be directly compared... #iran
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11:54 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: Agreed, but when I first heard of the Madison fellow's arrest, I immediately thought of the shot to our credibility, if we were to condemn other governments for making similar arrests.

    It's sort of like when the Bush-era waterboarding story was confirmed. It wasn't even days until comparisons were made to WWII-era convictions for war crimes.

    Sure, the charges against Mr. Madison have been dropped, but if we want to be able to encourage social networking as a means to organize, then we can't be arresting people for doing the same thing. #iran
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09:54 AM

    In reply to The Day the Investigative Reporting Came In
    Well, the editorial agenda here has been crystal clear from the get-go (i.e., "scapegoating").

    I have no idea what's going on with this story because: (a) most news outlets have released information that has turned out to be utterly, painfully wrong, and (b) the rest (like Gawker) are pursuing a pro/anti-discrimination agenda.

    By the time any truth is uncovered, you will all have lost interest...so as usual, the readers remain uninformed. #media
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    09:35 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Ravi, auto-play videos are of the devil.

    Re: Mr. Blair - dude needs to have a med check, because I think the Adderall is showing. I hope he knows that you're not supposed to crush or snort the time-released ones. #journalismism
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09:24 AM

    In reply to The Day the Investigative Reporting Came In
    Very little -- almost none -- of this effort adds meaning to the world. Or even entertainment.

    Local papers, and papers pretending to be national papers, please develop something of a local consciousness on your public instititions. This stuff can be handled by the tabs. #media
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09:23 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    ...a profession that not only did I personally love doing, but that I value for society...

    I admire his stepping up to the podium and trying to turn a bad into a good, but this quote? He loved it so much he faked getting the job done and he valued it so much he plagiarized others' work. He needs to choose his words more carefully if he wants to be taken seriously as someone who has done some soul searching on the wrongs he committed. #journalismism
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10:18 AM

    @PaisleyPajamas: Remember Stephen Glass, Blair's brother-in-disgrace, who fabricated a billion stories, got caught, and then went on to pursue a law degree (ha!) and publish a contrite-ish biographical novel? Your comment reminds me of the reaction of New Republic's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier--Glass' former boss:

    "The creep is doing it again. Even when it comes to reckoning with his own sins, he is still incapable of nonfiction. The careerism of his repentance is repulsively consistent with the careerism of his crimes."

    "Careerism of repentance".. Now this is a fine, useful phrase to keep in mind. #journalismism
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    10:25 AM

    @snugbug: Yes! That's it exactly. Apparently they were coming from the same point of view on the "value for society" of their work. #journalismism
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    07:36 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    I love this career path: do something unethical, become an ethics specialist. Last week, I got credit towards my legal ethics requirement for listening to Nixon's former lawyer discuss how not to be a crook. #journalismism
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    08:05 AM

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: It is the American way. Only the unethical can tell you about ethics, the unfashionable about fashion and the corrupt about corruption. #journalismism
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    08:51 AM

    @adiam7: Of course it's only those who get caught being corrupt who hit the lecture circuit.

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, charge $10,000 per event. #journalismism
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09:07 AM

    @adiam7: Don't forget hackers on 'net security. #journalismism
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12:00 PM

    @adiam7: Which brings us to Emily Gould: Yoga Instructor. #journalismism
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    Image of Magister Magister
    07:06 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Not to be a stickler, but the word "disgraced" is only in the final paragraph and no where near the guy's name. #journalismism
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08:38 AM

    @Magister: Good point. Because it should be the Homeric epithet attached to him -- "disgraced former journalist." #journalismism
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    Image of Bunsy Bunsy
    12:25 AM

    In reply to Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
    Foster -- why can't you charge people for information (gathering it, assessing it, presenting it)? Am I missing something here? #peterkaplan
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    01:36 AM

    @Bunsy: Sure, you can. But if the person being charged is me - who can take it, repurpose it in my own language, and make it more profitable (the cost of paying for the NYT vs. the cost of reporting the NYT) - the value of the information drops dramatically, as quickly as I can make it my own. And I just don't think you can't protect the value of something like a huge scoop to justify what it costs to get it anymore. You've got to offer something else.
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    Edited by Foster Kamer at 11/09/09 1:38 AM Foster Kamer was starred Foster Kamer was unstarred
    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    01:42 AM

    @Bunsy: Because eventually the information makes its way into the public space. In other words, if information has any value at all, that value pretty much disappears the instant it hits the air. The pay wall only works if you can control, in a very narrow way, the limits of the medium (in this case the internet). #peterkaplan
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    11/08/09

    In reply to Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
    I kind of love the quote about how it takes a single day to decipher whether a reporter is worth his or her weight. That really speaks to an intuitiveness amongst quality journalists, something that perhaps cannot be taught at school but merely refined (or alternately, stunted) by grooming.

    And Tina Brown is a lot [many things-er] than all of us, but that does not make her in any way something we should continue thinking about. #peterkaplan
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/08/09

    @ampersandparade: True, on both points. But Tina Brown's going to be someone we're going to have to keep thinking about. The question remains: when (or if) Diller will tighten the purse-strings on her operation. #peterkaplan
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