This is going to be really self-indulgent and snobby but carrying on my from my previous post I really need to vent about some people in my radio journalism class/all my friggen journalism classes. Yeah, it’s a second year subject and I’m a third year but I wasn’t this fucking naive last year.

Joke post right?

youngmanhattanite:

gillianmae:

The Google News front page is a kind of air-traffic-control center for the movement of stories across the world’s media, in real time. “Usually, you see essentially the same approach taken by a thousand publications at the same time,” [Krisha Bharat, Google News’ creator] told me. “Once something has been observed, nearly everyone says approximately the same thing.” He didn’t mean that the publications were linking to one another or syndicating their stories. Rather, their conventions and instincts made them all emphasize the same things. This could be reassuring, in indicating some consensus on what the “important” stories were. But Bharat said it also indicated a faddishness of coverage—when Michael Jackson dies, other things cease to matter—and a redundancy that journalism could no longer afford. “It makes you wonder, is there a better way?” he asked. “Why is it that a thousand people come up with approximately the same reading of matters? Why couldn’t there be five readings? And meanwhile use that energy to observe something else, equally important, that is currently being neglected.” He said this was not a purely theoretical question. “I believe the news industry is finding that it will not be able to sustain producing highly similar articles.”

Reblog. Reblog. Reblog.

Taste the difference.

Conan O’Brien visited Google’s corporate campus and apparently “killed,” in part with a line discouraging people from watching his old show.

The last time guy-site Thrillist put on a junket—to Jamaica, last fall—it ended up costing a New York Times freelancer his job, and prompting a stern warning to everyone else.

Perhaps to combat the recent malaise in the world of hilarious newsroom profanity, Good Day New York anchor Rosanna Scotto took a perfectly innocent conversation on the real definition of the word “milk” and made the suggestion that soy milk should be renamed… well, something else.

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