tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22989776132632592072024-03-05T10:07:15.682-08:00Feral Beast"Today's media hunts in a pack. It is like a feral beast just tearing people and reputations to bits."Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-79018193495679812822012-02-17T17:43:00.000-08:002012-02-23T09:42:30.862-08:00Why the Feral Beast is going into HibernationHuh?
SUN WILL RISE ON SUNDAY!
Shudder. We guess it's bound to be like News of the Screws redux as the old Dingo dodges another crisis. Never mind that the former prime minister's wife is suing for being wiretapped. Nonetheless,
...Murdoch Tries to Reassure Staff After Arrests
This media news, coupled with the untimely death of Tony Shadid, the NYT's wisest Middle East correspondent, makes Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-85772420581089733952012-02-02T02:32:00.000-08:002012-02-02T02:32:14.078-08:00What the Frack? Republicans turn on Fox journalist
The high profile documentary-maker Josh Fox issued the following statement to the press after Republican legislators called for his arrest while he was filming a congressional committee hearing on the environmental impact of fracking chemicals (He was not accredited.):
I was arrested today for exercising my First Amendment
rights to freedom of the press on Capitol Hill. I was not expecting Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-54893372149764967822012-01-28T10:24:00.000-08:002012-01-28T10:24:52.315-08:00Whoa Knelly - NPR's new headmanVanity Fair dishes on NPR's new head honcho, Gary Knell and his challenge to counteract years of "impotent, ineffectual, absentee, and alien management."
...in the balance hangs NPR’s future and perhaps even its soul—as either a
nonpartisan defender of in-depth journalism or a target of the partisan
sniping of the sound-bite era. David Margolick explores how NPR’s
management managed to Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-41737146863354017622012-01-26T13:56:00.000-08:002012-01-26T13:56:40.715-08:00'Death to Bloggers' decrees Tehran
One dismal news item noted by the Washington Examiner's
Joel Gehrke does not bode well for so-called citizen journalists who want to get the truth out:
Iranian
courts have sentenced two bloggers to death for "spreading corruption,"
and government security forces have arrested four other journalists, in
the lead-up to the nation's March Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-57887714030641765332012-01-17T12:20:00.000-08:002012-01-17T12:23:01.552-08:009 Ways Journalists Show They Don't Get Science
Over on Guardian blogs, there's hot discussion about perceptions of hacks and lab geeks, who often seem to work at cross purposes. It was sparked by a post authored by the online editor of Nature, Ananyo Bhattacharya. The comment below turned the discussion around and drew widesread approval from academics. Definitely there are some salient points. Hat tip to "jferdy5" for Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-65106016471156350082012-01-17T09:00:00.000-08:002012-01-17T09:00:58.520-08:00Oops - should have coordinated with the ad dept
Sometimes the advertising department and editorial need to open the lines of communication.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-27186722703313187552011-12-22T00:50:00.000-08:002011-12-22T01:00:44.160-08:00The 10 most dangerous places for journalists in 2011
Reporters Without Borders website has compiled a list of the world’s 10 most dangerous places for the
media – the 10 cities, districts, squares, provinces or regions where
journalists and netizens (internet citizens &/or online entities) were exposed to violence and where
freedom of information was flouted.
The Arab Spring, the protest movements it inspired in
Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-89750992512648494042011-11-28T16:51:00.000-08:002011-11-28T17:02:06.732-08:00Israel apologizes for sorry treatment of NYT photographer Israel's Defense Ministry apologized Monday for the treatment of a pregnant American news photographer who was repeatedly strip searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check, the Associated Press reports. (Olive -skinned Lynsey does look vaguely Palestinian, one colleague noted. But this incident shows how Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-41879478698505412892011-11-14T09:36:00.001-08:002011-11-14T15:59:40.542-08:00Chelsea Clinton to report for NBC Network News
As first families get accustomed to the spotlight, the offspring of presidents and candidates become attractive hires for television, with instant name recognition. The latest to join Jenna Bush as a tv reporter at NBC is Chelsea Clinton, 31, a composed campaign trail speaker who presumably has discovered that professional life at McKinsey, a financial management firm, is rather cutIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-52067814271830102632011-11-13T00:43:00.001-08:002011-11-13T14:55:14.756-08:00Has Poynter's New Romenesko-ish blog, MediaWire, Just Imploded? The Spin's Still Coming In
This is a fractured fairy tale about an aggravated aggregator. His hastened departure at Poynter Institute has touched off a brouhaha of tweets and cybersnark this week. The veteran blogger Jim Romenesko has resigned a full seven weeks before his scheduled "semi-retirement" into reporting mode, and it looks as if he's intent on taking all his advertisers, along with some 38,000 regular Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-8877175720796370992011-11-04T11:49:00.000-07:002011-11-04T11:55:18.888-07:00Cartoonist Arrested at Occupy Oakland Raid
Susie Cagle, a spunky young graphic artist who has been covering the Occupy Oakland protests since the beginning, has been released from jail after her arrest. She was charged with a misdemeanor for being present at a demo, even though her press accreditation was in order. Colleagues are encouraging her to take the Blue Meanies of the Oakland police to court for prohibiting her fromIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-36139527416044778612011-11-02T00:54:00.000-07:002011-11-02T10:00:42.775-07:00Court to Rule on Julian Assange Extradition Today
The founder of WikiLeaks faces extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. Julian Assange , who wears an electronic monitoring device on his ankle while in Britain, maintains that these accusations are politically motivated. The Press Association reports:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will hear on Wednesday if he has won or lost his high court bid to block extradition to Sweden Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-69825128578181748912011-11-01T14:12:00.000-07:002011-11-01T14:12:31.054-07:00Female Soldier Jailed for Leaking IDF Assassination Policy
Israel is punishing its kosher version of
Bradley Manning, the fomer IDF conscript and online reporter Anat Kam,
who was just sentenced to four and a half years behind bars, despite her
lengthy secret house arrest. But the
journalist who reported on her leaked documents about the IDF's hit
list, Uri Blau of Haaretz, is presently holed up in Britain -- in an odd
echo of Wikileaks' Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-81721240960358623272011-10-24T11:02:00.000-07:002011-10-24T14:40:13.527-07:00WikiLeaks pluggedA bank blockade is about to staunch the flow of information from Julian Assange's notorious WikiLeaks website. According to reports in the Guardian and the New York Times, two of the newspapers that splashed the news from a torrent of secret documents uploaded to the website mostly by a low-level American soldier, Bradley Manning, publishing has stopped abruptly. What's lacking is, er, Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-56663899004520094202011-10-03T00:09:00.000-07:002011-10-03T17:43:22.284-07:00Rebel Without A Clause? Review of 'Rimbaud in Java'
Writer Jamie James attempted to fictionalize his research for a novel, after nine years of investigation, but ultimately he abandoned make-believe dialogue for the dogged truth. That's a reporter. The book is released this week, and I got a chance to review it.
Long before Rambo, there was Rimbaud.
In fact, the poet Arthur Rimbaud can be seen as a kind of anti-Rambo:
a literaryIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-86811774088782094482011-09-27T01:34:00.000-07:002011-09-27T01:34:28.496-07:00
(Hat tip to cartoonist Matt Bors.)
Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-83128885879011817562011-09-15T16:42:00.000-07:002011-09-27T11:19:29.817-07:00Hari-kari at the Independent?The popular and rather egomaniacal columnist Johann Hari, who has admitted lifting quotes and bolstering his own profile on Wikipedia under a pseudonym while savaging his rivals, handed back his Orwell Prize for political reporting before it was officially rescinded. But it appears he kept the cheque! His apology in today's edition of the Independent may have satisfied his editors, though most ofIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-24110773040205325152011-08-17T10:15:00.000-07:002011-08-17T11:01:54.118-07:00Russ Baker bashes New Yorker piece on 'Getting Bin Laden' for sketchy sourcing
The spin cycle apparently ain't what it used to be. Is the New Yorker's exclusive article on the Bin Laden raid mainly based on whoppers circulated by the writer's dad, a top brass with military intel? [pictured above] A veteran reporter warns us not to be, er, schmidled:
When you look closely, nothing seems right about what will surely become the accepted account of the raid that nailed Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-29955253658365051732011-08-11T01:35:00.000-07:002011-08-11T01:42:08.991-07:00Elementary my dear Watson....run!
He may be synonymous with crafty detective work and putting criminals behind bars, but it seems that even Sherlock Holmes never saw this one coming. Mark Gatiss, the executive producer and co-writer of BBC show Sherlock, tweeted how the cast and crew had to abandon the set during the London riots. "This is a new one on me. Scene incomplete owing to approaching looters. Unbelievable times," he Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-48445738796504244292011-07-25T12:30:00.000-07:002011-07-25T12:38:28.720-07:00Breivik calls journalists 'Category B Traitors'Killing the messenger in a massive hack attack? Confessed Oslo attacker Anders Behring Breivik mentioned journalism conferences that attract droves of reporters and editors from around the globe as major targets for possible attacks to advance his xenophobic, right-wing agenda.In his 1,500-page manifesto, Breivik called these gatherings “THE MOST attractive targets for large scale shock attacks" Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-18921535120399769832011-07-20T01:39:00.000-07:002011-07-20T12:25:26.223-07:00Conrad Black on MurdochBefore the hacking scandal devolved into humble pie antics today, the pink paper rival to NewCorp's Wall Street Journal ran this piece by another fallen media mogul, Conrad Black, entitled "Taking the measure of Rupert Murdoch". Worth reading Conrad Black,wrote in The Financial Times, on 15 July:Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. There is no Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-82981976694166721012011-07-09T05:52:00.000-07:002011-07-10T06:18:25.729-07:00James Murdoch in the dock over phone hacks?Best headline about the sudden shutting of the British tabloid News of the World has got to be this one: Goodbye, Cruel World! The humor is black and the situation bleak. Now we know exactly why the British journalists call themselves "hacks"!The fallout is mounting- after two arrests, Prime Minister David Cameron faced down a room of scornful journalists in a press conference about the scandalIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-59581985569274993312011-06-20T17:54:00.000-07:002011-06-20T18:04:09.643-07:00Vancouver riot couple kiss and tellAfter all the chaotic images that emerged from the Vancouver Game 7 [Stanley Cup] riots last week — burning, looting, fighting — one image instantly became iconic: Scott Jones kissing his girlfriend Alex Thomas, as riot police marched down a debris-covered road.Jones, a bartender from Australia, reached down to comfort Canadian college student Thomas after police knocked her to the ground Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-69680558893065070172011-06-01T21:31:00.000-07:002011-06-01T21:34:39.281-07:00Syed Saleem Shahzad’s CourageSyed Saleem Shahzad’s Courage - NYT Editorial http://nyti.ms/iIaqEzIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-86650696840253696942011-05-31T22:08:00.000-07:002011-09-16T01:55:20.574-07:00Is Pakistan Killing Journos? Syed Saleem Shahzad in 2006. (Banaras Khan, AFP / Getty Images)Who Killed Saleem Shahzad?An investigation by Newsweek's Ron Moreau, Fasih Ahmed, and Marvi Sirmed, of Baaghi blog Courageous Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who had scored major scoops on al Qaeda and the Taliban, was abducted and brutally murdered this week. Was the ISI, the country’s shady intelligence agency, to blame? Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0