Feral Beast

"Today's media hunts in a pack. It is like a feral beast just tearing people and reputations to bits."

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Six Months on, Most Laid-off staffers Rocky Mountain News earn less


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TEMPLE TALK: Reflections from Rocky Mountain News reporters, photographers, artists, videographers and cartoonists six months after the paper's final edition

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media, tooth and claw

media, tooth and claw
Tony Blair, the erstwhile prime minister who uttered the feral beast quote above, also famously complained that "the tabloid press was changing character. Its new face had sharper fangs and a more derisive smirk." That's us, folks.

and what rough beast is this?

Feral Beast's bloggers all are English-speaking journalists, on assignment in the US or in foreign news bureaus. Anonymity may encourage us to snarl. Consider the source: tabloid reporters, snappers, freelancers, old pros, rising stars, on-air talent, over-the-hill hacks, office interns, factcheckers, you name it. Readers' comments and suggestions are welcome.

Feral Beast? Try Lemming

If the press were an animal, what kind of animal would it be? I’ve got my answer. A legion of lemmings, furry and well-intentioned, but ultimately condemned by their nature to follow each other mindlessly off a tall cliff, over the Paris Hilton peak or into the Invade Iraq crevasse. The words “feral beast” certainly wouldn’t come to mind. It’s not particularly accurate or particularly evocative. But that is how the departing British prime minister, Tony Blair, sees journalists: as malicious tormentors who have tried to tear him limb from limb.

--Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review


What kind of animal is today's press? Endangered

“Journalism is a form of cartography,” write Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach of Pew. “It creates a map for citizens to navigate society. Inflating events for sensation, neglecting others, stereotyping or being disproportionately negative all make a less reliable map.”

"Journalism is good at solving small problems or taking small bites of a big problem. It’s not good at solving big problems." Adapted from David Simon, creator of The Wire.

Retrospective : five decades of journalism as reported by CJR

Fake AP Stylebook reminds us: Unless you're doing a story on the Muppets, you are not a gonzo journalist.

"The once idealized information superhighway has become a parking lot of error, misinformation, rumor and junk." Poynter Institute, advocating a broader definition of who is a journalist.


paper cuts with a vengeance

At least 25,500 journalism jobs were lost since 2008. See the ongoing tally for newspapers here.

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