In a recent PR Week article, Lloyd Trufelman, president of Trylon Communications, said “If a blog is going to exist as a commercial enterprise, it’s going to have to track to the same economic rules that govern all other forms of media." These are the same rules, I assume, that governed vanishing newspaper circulations andContinue reading “New Media Forms Don’t Follow the Rules – And That’s a Good Thing”
Category Archives: News Media
We Media Conference: In “Us” We Trust
The 2005 We Media conference was a gorgeous blur, a non-stop serenade from modern media pioneers, practitioners and a few procrastinators about the coming Collaboration Age. It was a day not just to drink the Kool-Aid but also to soak in it. Many others have summarized, theorized, blogged, podcasted, used mental telepathy and that languageContinue reading “We Media Conference: In “Us” We Trust”
Who Can You Trust in the New World of News? Start With Yourself
Journalism is a public trust – the journalists trust the public to believe what they write and say, and the public trusts the journalists to report the unvarnished truth. But trust, like journalism itself, is subjective. Some people trust Fox News, some trust National Public Radio, and still others consider A Current Affair to beContinue reading “Who Can You Trust in the New World of News? Start With Yourself”
An Open Letter to J-School Students: Help Usher Us Into the “News 2.0” Era of Collaborative Journalism
Dear Journalism School student, I read that you are questioning whether journalism is a worthy calling. You are considering public relations as an alternative, because you believe PR is the clearer path to the truth than the rocky road laid by some in the journalism profession. There’s nothing wrong with PR – I made theContinue reading “An Open Letter to J-School Students: Help Usher Us Into the “News 2.0” Era of Collaborative Journalism”
Judge John and CitJ: Roberts Supports Media Access, but Does that Include Citizen Journalism?
Judge John (I like that better than Judge Roberts, it sounds more personal, like one of those daytime TV judges) testified that the “media” should have full access to news events such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But what about citizen journalists? Roberts said: “If it’s a situation in which the public is beingContinue reading “Judge John and CitJ: Roberts Supports Media Access, but Does that Include Citizen Journalism?”
FEMA Chief Brown Resigns
Michael Brown, FEMA’s battered and bruised director, is resigning according to published news reports. It was the right decision — and it also saves President Bush the embarrassment of firing Brown instead (though I wouldn’t be suprised if Bush encouraged Brown to step down). Brown is the first and not likely the last to goContinue reading “FEMA Chief Brown Resigns”
Memo to FEMA’s Michael Brown: Best PR Move is to Leave
In another shining example of the mainstream media exercising its newly-found investigative spine, the Associated Press reports on a memo from FEMA Director Michael Brown to Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff: “The government’s disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 HomelandContinue reading “Memo to FEMA’s Michael Brown: Best PR Move is to Leave”
Feds to Gulf Coast: You Didn’t Say Please
Here’s a small sample of how the Bush Administration brings the country together in a time of crisis and untold human suffering: "Our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor." — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, explaining why federal assets were not used more quickly. "The mayor can orderContinue reading “Feds to Gulf Coast: You Didn’t Say Please”
Katrina Was a Hurricane, Not ‘Divine’ Payback
There has been plenty of blame, much of it justified, about the official response to Hurricane Katrina. And there will be plenty more in the weeks and months ahead, long after the waters recede. I’ve covered a few natural disasters – fires and earthquakes mostly, devastating for sure but nothing close to what is playingContinue reading “Katrina Was a Hurricane, Not ‘Divine’ Payback”
Rubel Peppers Jeremy, King Sweetens Lance and Robertson Just Sours
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post, which in “blog time” is equivalent to being dead. Not that I try or care to keep up – Steve Rubel, for example, sometimes posts more items in day than I do in two months. I’m more like a Jay Rosen as far as my postingContinue reading “Rubel Peppers Jeremy, King Sweetens Lance and Robertson Just Sours”
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