tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22989776132632592072012-02-02T02:32:13.981-08:00Feral 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.comBlogger4381100tag: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.com0tag: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 elections.
"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 his/her 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
nearby 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 cut throat Izzy 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 from doing herIzzy 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' Julian 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 literary child Izzy 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-78062920678638340122011-05-25T08:26:00.000-07:002011-09-27T01:36:04.063-07:00Commenters, bloggers, hacks, and authors
Commenters are men and women in real life, presumably, but on the Internet they are disembodied pixels of pure judgment that trade little more than an e-mail address for the privilege of hearing themselves speak in the virtual pages of publications otherwise inaccessible to the voice of the layman, in this case, the venerable Gray Lady. Many do so anonymously or with a user name, believing that Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-34423364558412418722011-05-17T15:44:00.000-07:002011-05-17T15:49:32.684-07:00State Department Censors Web Sites China AllowsExcerpt from Peter Van Buren's blog, We Meant WellJust to make sure our quotient of irony stays at Defcon 99, the State Department plans to spend $19 million on breaking Internet censorship overseas. State says it will give $19 million dollars to efforts to evade Internet controls in China, Iran and other authoritarian states which block online access to “politically sensitive material.” Michael Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-59878178887914127812011-05-14T15:07:00.000-07:002011-05-14T15:22:57.256-07:00NY Post Rises to Occasion and gives us HeadHere's a headline that grabs your attention. Whora Bora indeed. There is some speculation that the smut actually belonged to the three wives in the Bin Laden household, who were on rotation in the bedrooms. Or to one of the pre-teen sons. Source?A rather dubious one: Um Tareq, tweeting @binLadenWidows. The online women are supposedly mourning their has-bin hubby by tweeting.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-26723121521026008542011-05-08T10:48:00.000-07:002011-05-08T10:59:29.351-07:00May Day!! Hermetic and Arrogant Grey Lady breaks the news as if she's breaking windFelix Salmon of Reuters assesses how the NY Times claims to have "broken" the Bin Laden raid. Click here for the complete post. An excerpt:has dinosaurs like Bill Keller and Arthur Brisbane, whose respective columns this weekend betray the fact that the people with the bully pulpits are stuck in a completely different world, seemingly ignorant of some of the biggest stories in social media.[Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-73073897429818670152011-05-02T10:05:00.001-07:002011-05-02T11:11:50.612-07:00Er - an even worse typo! Fox's Freudian slipAn anchor at the Fox station in Washington, WTTG, said – first thing out of his mouth as the President walked away from the podium: “President Obama speaking from the East Room of the White House, telling the nation and the world: President Obama is in fact dead. It was a U.S.-led strategic (horrified co-anchor mumbles correction) I’m sorry. Osama Bin Laden is dead.” Read more on world wide Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-60053491973450187702011-05-01T21:53:00.000-07:002011-05-01T21:54:32.519-07:00Oops - a typo that will haunt her!In an attempt to release the news of Osama bin Laden’s death quickly late Sunday night, MSNBC correspondent Norah O’Donnell accidentally reported on Twitter that “Obama” had been “killed” instead.“Obama shot and killed,” Norah O’Donnell posted on Twitter, citing NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski as her source.It was announced Sunday that Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-71612021945304880622011-04-20T10:56:00.000-07:002011-04-20T15:45:17.388-07:00RIP for Hetherington, Restrepo ShooterTim Hetherington's reported death in action has devastated his war correspondent colleagues and the American troops he documented; Chris Hondros was also mortally wounded by mortars. Guy Martin, a Briton affiliated with the Panos photo agency, and Michael Christopher Brown - were wounded by shrapnel but expected to survive.Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/20/2177314/Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-27375644258286997362011-04-19T20:05:00.000-07:002011-04-20T11:08:14.123-07:00Three Cups of Tea - With a Grain of SaltThe air must get rather thin up there.Jon Kraukauer vs Greg Mortenson, Mountaineer vs Mountaineer, who's gonna fall first?This author rage seems more than a tempest in a teacup. The accuracy of Krakauer's own book, "Into Thin Air", was once disputed by other mountaineers, too. But this journalist-alpinist seems to be driven by the ferocity of a man duped. (JK had once donated $75,000 to GM's Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-61200570778738181512011-04-13T13:32:00.000-07:002011-04-13T13:35:29.357-07:00Correction of the Week"The Post incorrectly attributed a quote to Toni Braxton in an article published on March 25. Braxton did not say: ‘I have a big-ass house, three cars and I fly first class all around the world. Some say I have the perfect life.’” - New York PostHat tip to the Columbia Journalism ReviewIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-85402128425707164212011-04-08T01:10:00.000-07:002011-04-08T01:34:49.495-07:00Gadaffi loyalists try to muzzle foreign pressMore than 70 attacks on the media covering the war in Libya have been committed since revolutionary fervor hit the oil rich North African country, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which is keeping a log, linked hereThese include “two fatalities, a gunshot injury, 41 detentions, 11 assaults, two attacks on news facilities, and the jamming of Al Jazeera and Al Hurra Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-14835340929627885282011-03-23T21:33:00.000-07:002011-03-23T23:30:34.435-07:00Elizabeth Taylor RIPLiz.February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011considered to be the "first victim of the paparazzi".Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-89957452189973539252011-03-22T11:37:00.000-07:002011-03-22T19:08:58.746-07:00Vicious Fighting in Libya: CNN vs Fox News!War reporters sometimes war, sometimes err, even on air!A supposed scoop by Fox's Jennifer Griffin about British missiles enraged CNN reporter Nic Robertson, who went ballistic on air. Murdoch's plucky Pentagon correspondent reported that her sources said a followup British airstrike on Gadaffi's compound had to be called off because crews from CNN and Reuters tv were in the way yesterday, and Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-34070663105939805052011-03-22T10:12:00.000-07:002011-03-22T23:40:01.661-07:00Ordeal ends for 4 Captive Hacks; Firefights and Shelling continue in LibyaUPDATE: A cautionary tale of Libya. The brutal captivity of the New York Times Four, as told by themselves. A must-read.The dangers of the pursuit of journalism are underlined in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times. After the paper's four captive journalists in Libya were released to a Turkish envoy and then drove out through Tunisia, some details of their ordeal are trickling out. It was aIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-50802597221349292192011-03-20T23:41:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:45:41.208-07:00US State Department to fund BBC anti-jammingThe BBC World Service is to receive a "significant" sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China, reports the GuardianIn what the BBC said is the first deal of its kind, an agreement is expected to be signed later this month that will see US state department money – understood to be a low six-figure sum – given Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-66106811195950062262011-03-20T11:12:00.000-07:002011-03-22T10:10:52.055-07:00More journalists captured in LibyaOh no. That's 13 and counting. Four missing Al Jazeera reporters are joined by three from Agence France Presse. And there still is no word of the NY Times quartet under arrest in Tripoli and whose release had been promised Friday, the day before the allied air assault got underway. Harrowing times. Are they part of Gaddhafi's human shield or what?See here for full story on the LA Times blog.httpIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-78628816360822142412011-03-16T10:44:00.000-07:002011-03-18T10:55:26.695-07:00NY Times Journos Missing in LibyaUPDATE: son of Gadaffi reportedly told newswoman Christine Amanpour that NYT photographer Lynsey Addario had been arrested and would be released Friday in Tripoli. Inshallah. Just passing on a tweet that has been retreated several times and repeated in a Filipino press story. May indicate that all 4 journos are in custody?The New York Times reported Wednesday that four of its journalists are Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-67171965216225263882011-03-16T08:52:00.000-07:002011-03-16T10:58:33.414-07:00Jay Rosen retreats from retweetsReporter Jay Rosen writes about his twitter goof here, in a confessional post called "Anatomy of a Twitter Screw-up: My Own". This should be a warning to new media practitioners everywhere. Bottom line - Check sources and think before you post anything- even a tweet! And for accuracy, it's best not to multitask. Jobs are on the line.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-87470524185444786952011-03-15T11:05:00.000-07:002011-03-15T11:12:50.539-07:00Oops. [SURELY SHOME MISHTAKE-Ed]Thanks to Hamilton Nolan , and Gawker, we have a glimpse of WashPost edits. In an embarrassing error, the paper published this piece in progress online (SURELY SHOME MISHTAKE-Ed.) A screen grab was made before it was deleted, with an apology that the piece was "incomplete".Here's the link. Even at the vaunted Wash Post, editors apparently ask for manufactured quotes, or nag reporters to go Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-45133160033944583172011-03-14T23:41:00.001-07:002011-03-14T23:50:55.929-07:00British, American journalists deported from YemenNational Security Reporters - please noteThree freelance journalists who were providing the majority of foreign news coverage of Yemen’s increasingly unstable climate were deported from the country Monday, Michelle Shephard filed to The Star.The two British reporters and an American journalist had been writing for the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly and Time Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-54265018902112537182011-03-13T01:27:00.000-08:002011-03-13T01:34:37.062-08:00Quote of the Day - that's Rich!Believe it or not, an opinion writer can sometimes get sick of his own voice. --Frank Rich, on quitting his Sunday political column in the NY TImes after a 17 year run. He is moving on to a weekly, New York magazine.Read his 'confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist' hereIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-60698596201336638772011-03-08T09:58:00.000-08:002011-03-08T11:31:48.510-08:00China blogger angered over losing Facebook accountChinese blogger and activist Michael Anti wants to know why he is less worthy of a Facebook account than company founder Mark Zuckerberg's dog.Anti, a popular online commentator whose legal name is Zhao Jing, said in an interview Tuesday that his Facebook account was suddenly canceled in January. Company officials told him by e-mail that Facebook has a strict policy against pseudonyms and that heIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-58196314314557788812011-03-08T09:04:00.000-08:002011-03-08T09:32:23.593-08:00Daily Star not so shining. Reporter complains of anti-Muslim propaganda and lies"Scrabbling to pump out a national newspaper with fewer staff hacks than it takes to man a yacht" is folly, according to ex-tabloid hack Richard Peppiatt, in his letter of resignation to the proprietor of the Daily Star. His screed was excerpted in the Guardian, alongside a statement from the red top paper that denied any negative stance towards Islam (despite all appearances). The plucky tabloidIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-25869039957658453342011-03-03T23:18:00.000-08:002011-03-04T13:31:58.191-08:00Another Scribe Down.In Tribute Derek A. Brown, Journalist, Born May 7, 1947 in Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland; married Eileen J. Brailsford, 1972; died February 23, 2011 in Herefordshire, England The correspondent who countered brutality with humour and wordplayHogamany was celebrated in style at Nizamuddin East in the early 1990s thanks to the British foreign correspondent, Derek Brown. You couldn’t predict which Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-10423347603258913312011-02-24T22:54:00.000-08:002011-02-24T23:28:40.956-08:00Driving thru Libya with armed men of all persuasionsWhat, me worry? I blame Bin laden. And youth on hallucinatory drugs. --Colonel GadaffiMcClatchy reports from the insurrection in LibyaIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-50683771616760821612011-02-23T11:29:00.000-08:002011-02-23T11:40:34.567-08:00Interactive Reporting on the Beeb: Corrections and LessonsVeteran journalist Paul Reynolds reflects on journalism's future after his decade online:As I leave my post as world affairs correspondent for the BBC News website, I would like to reflect on the shock I experienced nine years ago when I left the "mainstream" BBC to join the then orphan child of News Online.I found that I was in direct contact with the public. Horror. This had not happened to me Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-79155697784441029162011-02-15T16:08:00.000-08:002011-02-16T14:04:52.453-08:00Beat Reporter- CBS 's Lara Logan assaulted by mob in Cairo People who have been cheering the events in Cairo from afar find themselves aghast after learning about the violence inflicted on 52 journalists, including CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who now is recovering in a U.S. hospital from a sustained sexual attack and beating she suffered while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo. AP reports.Logan was in the city’s Tahrir Square on Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-51722274509859800352011-02-11T12:19:00.000-08:002011-02-11T12:39:25.192-08:00Tweeting the News? Beware of retweeting errors at warp speedThe perils of tweeting the news from one reporter's perspective. Click here for a thoughtful confession session from Colum Lynch, a Foreign Policy blogger responsible for Turtle Bay and its tweets.Twitter is a rumor mill, a high-tech, and often partisan, upgrade on the old office water cooler -- except this version lets your boss, your friends, your critics, and everyone else listen in. But likeIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-14303676475966501342011-02-11T11:01:00.000-08:002011-02-11T11:05:47.204-08:00Correction of the monthNote to self: best to reconfirm statistics with sources, especially when you just hear them over the phone. And if it really had been thousands and thousands of drowned pigs, why would it only rate page 11? Hat tip to MediaBlog.co.uk for this gemIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-56993837103623809932011-02-07T12:56:00.000-08:002011-02-11T12:15:29.201-08:00Huffington Post sold for $315m. Her unpaid journalists feel snookeredSurely, The Feral Beast is not the only one annoyed by the smugness of Ariana Huffington and the success of her Huffington Post - sold yesterday to the aol conglomerate (remember America Online?) for a cool $315mil. Too many feel hoodwinked by Huffpo's progressive stance and now view Ms Arianna as an exploitative sell-out, not a web visionary. She started out as a Republican and elitist, after Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-22322610639544252902011-02-03T22:53:00.000-08:002011-02-03T23:15:33.306-08:00Bloody Streets of Cairo - sword vs penAshraf Khalil's dispatch from Cairo describes, from the frontlines, The Day of Hunting Journalists. Many Middle East correspondents, some more accustomed to embedding with our boys in foreign fields, got a firsthand dose of violence directed at silencing them. Khalil's a veteran Egyptian-American print reporter who filed this to Foreign Policy magazine. For journalists posted in revolutionary Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-58099185547136441542011-01-31T09:42:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:55:54.777-08:00Wikileaks switches to Torygraph!According to Luke Harding, of the Guardian, who recently co-wrote a quickie book about the Wikileaks saga, the Telegraph is nudging out the Guardian as Britain's public outlet and interpreter of Julian Assange's scoops. But how long this will last is anyone's guess. Negotiations between the Australian and the leftleaning British paper had been quite fraught, especially following the Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-59775608108777611872011-01-27T14:57:00.000-08:002011-01-27T15:11:10.263-08:00Jay Carney named new White House Press Secretary by ObamaPresident Barack Obama has picked Jay Carney, 45, the communications chief to Vice President Joe Biden and an ex- Time magazine Washington Correspondent, to be the next White House press secretary. No surprises there. This replacement for the outgoing Robert Gibbs was widely expected inside the Beltway. Carney is another elitist (Yale graduate), and is plugged into the Washington press corps Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-75432363085891097202011-01-09T20:46:00.000-08:002011-01-09T22:51:26.816-08:00Tucson Aftermath: Tone Down the Rhetoric, Folks. Gun Metaphors Get Blasted.The vitriol has hit the fan. And the fanbase. Toxic rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum is under scrutiny at last. The cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz satirizes the reaction of Sarah Palin (the self-dubbed Mama Grisly, aka Snow Snooki or Caribou Barbie) to the shooting of 20 people at a Tucson Safeway, including the Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was blasted point blank in the brain Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-50216101947365901982011-01-04T10:48:00.000-08:002011-01-04T11:03:24.364-08:00Saddam Statue toppling- a takedown of the international press corps ?The New Yorker's Peter Maas examines how the media conflated a staged statue toppling moment into a symbol of victory in Iraq. Did events at Firdos Square in 2003 and a photo op that echoed the iconic image of Iwo Jima marines mislead Americans into believing a "victory myth" in Iraq? What started as a notion from a Marine sergeant transmogrified into a media moment of outsized proportions, fed Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-47576674704058262122010-12-17T15:50:00.000-08:002010-12-17T15:54:47.715-08:00Rethink your slogan?The Nation, a daily paper published in Pakistan, maybe should reconsider its online promotion. The dubious tagline at the top of every webpage reads: "The nation is the most incredible of English Newspapers in Pakistan."Maybe not something to boast about, editors.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-60923994405721672172010-12-16T10:27:00.000-08:002010-12-16T10:36:19.959-08:00Freelancers often must beg for pay"I’m in the professional equivalent of an abusive relationship,” said Ben Ryan, a low-income freelancer writer who says his former employer owes him $12,925. “I would describe an overriding, constant sense of anxiety. Of course, that’s what the freelancer experience is.”An opaque terminology accompanies these delays. There are “checks” versus “processed invoices,” “mailed checks” versus “cut Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-4092777187496992982010-12-11T22:27:00.000-08:002010-12-11T22:55:45.218-08:00Fixer turns on 'War tourist' hackBeirut's Moe Ali Nayel takes caustic aim at "war tourist journalism." "I am writing this because I am sick and tired of the stereotypes and narrow angles taken by ignorant and prejudiced foreign observers," he blogs on The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: He is fed up: read An Arab fixer draws a line in the sand. Hat tip to Dion Nissenbaum for this particular rant. And Shame Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-6805354029548897932010-12-09T15:12:00.001-08:002010-12-11T22:54:36.335-08:00ExposureHat Tip to Truth-out.org Read here for tweets on WikileaksIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-17471939392699828522010-12-06T21:20:00.000-08:002010-12-06T21:27:50.960-08:00Filkins Jumps to New YorkerDexter Filkins, a heavy-duty war correspondent for The New York Times, is heading to The New Yorker, reports Nick Summers in the NY Observer."I love the New York Times, and I'm hugely grateful for all they've done for me. I'll miss everyone there very much. The New Yorker has offered me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I'm very excited about it," Mr. Filkins wrote The Observer in an email.MrIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-17466411664274717762010-12-06T09:50:00.000-08:002010-12-09T15:16:26.490-08:00Why we need editorsEmail exchange with sharp-eyed Editor:On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Ms Bird wrote:Look out kidIt’s somethin’ you did ...You misquoted Bob Dylan! And in the lead of an article yet!It's “You don’t need a weatherman to KNOW which way the wind blows.”(Not "tell").I have fixed it and saved our credibility................................................On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:09 AM, freelancer repliedWhewIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-56585375357522854802010-12-02T16:48:00.000-08:002010-12-02T17:01:42.286-08:00Wikileaks filtering needed! Can't staunch emIt's been Wikileaks frenzy all this week, and may well be all the way til Christmas, the way things are going. Some wag said Wikileaks had done to investigative journalism what Napster did to the music industry, but Times of London correspondent James Hider says that it shows we all have just become incredibly lazy, feasting off this giant beached whale. A quarter million uploaded State Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-84943227124719409082010-10-28T16:18:00.000-07:002010-10-28T17:02:35.329-07:00'Transparency is central to democracy' - WoodwardIt has become a cliche: The truth will set you free.But Bob Woodward really does believe that transparency is central to democracy. Julia Love reports:In a speech before an overflowing crowd in the Sanford School of Public Policy Wednesday, Woodward said it was a simple drive to explain what happened that led him through the legendary reporting on the Watergate scandal and the composition of 15 Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-87754830481578400872010-10-11T09:55:00.000-07:002010-10-11T10:28:20.049-07:00Newsweek sniffs out Daily Beast's BrownThere have been prominent WashPost and Newsweek links on the Daily Beast website since its launch two years ago, and now that the nation's number two news magazine, Newsweek, has changed hands for only a dollar to a deep-pockets owner willing to take on its debts, the redoubtable Ms Brown of the Daily Beast may soon up for double editorial duties and double exposure. She's always been more a Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-81296247054475766872010-10-06T16:43:00.000-07:002010-10-08T00:55:23.395-07:00Russ Baker exposes Woodward's 'inner warrior' and the icon's feet of clayBob Woodward’s signature achievement - bringing down Richard Nixon - turns out not to be what we all thought. If that comes as a surprise, you have missed a few books, including bestsellers, that put pieces of this puzzle together. (Family of Secrets has several chapters on the real Watergate story, but there are others that present detailed information, including those by Len Colodny and Robert Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-13580008739309783142010-09-27T09:57:00.000-07:002010-09-27T13:41:19.894-07:00Fisk on FiskingFisking is an internet term for a "point-by-point debunking of lies and/or idiocies", which is not necessarily fun to read. It started when Robert Fisk wrote the following lines about a beating If I was an Afghan refugee in Kila Abdullah, I would have done just what they did. I would have attacked Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could findApparently, the reporter was setting himself up forIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-84879535255625403512010-09-26T14:23:00.000-07:002010-09-26T14:26:04.431-07:00A Muslim Superhero Hits ComicsA Muslim Superhero Hits Comics - The Daily BeastA super-Muslim on wheels is about to hit the stands, acc to the Associated Press The unlikely comic book hero is the brainchild of U.S. philanthropist and businessman Jay T. Snyder.He told the AP that he was inspired by President Barack Obama's effort to reach out to the Muslim world in his January 2009 inaugural address. Last month, Snyder flew 12Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-49135868847559846512010-09-21T09:58:00.000-07:002010-09-21T10:26:29.357-07:00RIP Murray Sayle: adventurer and tireless investigator of 1945 Atomic BombingPeter Popham writes in the Independent about the life of an investigative reporter, and the demise of an industry.A big, barrel-chested, hatchet-faced man with a broken nose and a sardonic smile, Murray Sayle was one of the most brilliant journalists of his generation and at his frequent best demonstrated a passion for his craft both as a tool for establishing truth and as a vehicle of literary Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-91871912028597308862010-09-09T21:56:00.000-07:002010-09-09T22:01:18.301-07:00The Problem With Burning QuransWhat if they burnt a Koran and nobody came? It already happened two years ago, according to the NY TIMES. Some soul-searching is under way in the media. And in The Problem With Burning Qurans Tunku Varadarajan dissects the latest media frenzy - what Arianna Huffington likens to the Balloon Boy.What is the media responsibility in this coverage? Can the genie be put back into the bottle at thisIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-42348280597299401222010-09-03T10:30:00.000-07:002010-09-03T10:34:46.619-07:00Are Reporters a vanishing breed?The American Journalism Review questions whether new foundation-funded hacks can make up for the loss of so many watchdog reporters from mainstream news jobs. In a file funded by George Soros's Open Society Institute, oddly enough, Mary Walton ponders the coming "investigative shortfall" in a piece on the vanishing species who find themselves 'Kicked out, bought out or barely hanging on', the Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-48678174595894267342010-09-01T20:49:00.000-07:002010-09-01T20:50:27.124-07:00How a U.K. Tabloid Got Its Royal Scoops - The Daily BeastHow a U.K. Tabloid Got Its Royal Scoops - The Daily BeastHow's this for a breach of journalistic ethics? An upcoming piece in The New York Times Magazine details how two News of the World staffers—a reporter and a private investigator employed by Britain's largest paper—hacked into the phones of British royal family aides. Clive Goodman, a reporter, and Glenn Mulcaire, an investigator working forIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-33866144279153208752010-08-19T10:40:00.000-07:002010-08-19T10:49:24.045-07:00Fareed Zakaria Leaves Newsweek, Joins Rival TimeSlate, citing Folio mag, notes the new direction of Newsweek's prominent blowhard.Time magazine is scheduled to announce on Thursday that it has snatched Fareed Zakaria from one of its biggest rivals, Newsweek. Zakaria, a columnist for the Washington Post, editor of Newsweek's international edition, and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, will be named a contributing editor for Time and will pen aIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-45355832174845246372010-08-17T10:50:00.000-07:002010-08-17T10:57:11.073-07:00Narco-censorship : silencing the Mexican mediaA new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico's drug war: narco-censorship, writes Tracy Wilkinson of the Los Angeles Times in a chilling piece today.It's when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-84400825659808781242010-08-13T09:39:00.000-07:002010-08-13T09:43:45.643-07:00Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war.Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.Many postings, including Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-18029594402603749942010-08-12T21:16:00.000-07:002010-08-12T21:16:40.278-07:00Gaza flotilla video mashup: Internet Killed Israeli PRIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-70433175583355566632010-08-11T22:49:00.000-07:002010-08-11T23:02:08.934-07:00Newsweek seeks new editor- no takers so farHat tip to Keith J. Kelly, The New York Post columnist who writes Media InkPressure is mounting to find a new editor-in-chief of Newsweek, as the staff defections continue in the wake of the sale two weeks ago to stereo mogul Sidney Harman.Jon Meacham, the current editor-in-chief, is telling staffers he hopes to pack it in by Labor Day.And the short list of candidates to replace him is growing Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-33395402132158452092010-08-02T11:26:00.000-07:002010-08-02T11:35:02.459-07:00Digital Tampering 101Hat tip to the Beeb, for the link to this piece about the perils of digitally tampering with news photos. Don't do it. Fakery is dishonest and readily detectable. Dozens of faked images are posted here for scrutiny, from the Economist's British Petroleum/Obama cover to Winston Churchill's belatedly cigar-less visage on a poster.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-13176541016383698842010-07-26T14:23:00.000-07:002010-07-26T14:36:04.557-07:00Breitbart treatment for Breitbart shows ease of manipulating videoIs this video real? Hey, video can't lie, right? Just ask CBS, The Washington Post, Fox, and other news outlets who've faithfully covered Andrew Breitbart's videos. Last week, Breitbart released a highly edited video purporting to show former USDA official Shirley Sherrod making racist comments. He was exposed as a fraud when the full video came to light and it was clear Sherrod was actually Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-6628899180398808472010-07-20T13:51:00.000-07:002010-07-20T14:03:40.601-07:00Paywall keeps 90% of London Times Readers Away!London Times Loses 90% of Readers - The Daily Beast Rupert Murdoch, who famously bought the London Times in 1981 in a "calculated gesture of bravado and mischief," may have miscalculated. Owning The Sun and News of the World had brought him profit but much woe, according to veteran journo Simon Jenkins.Buying The Times, then in desperate straits, would infuriate his enemies, raise his world Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-69609156810661581722010-07-20T02:43:00.000-07:002010-07-20T14:06:05.933-07:00Boundaries Crumble in New Delhi Cancer WardA poignant guest post today comes from Der Spiegel's Padma Rao, South Asia Bureau Chief, via the Indian weekly, Outlook. www.outlookindia.com | The Crab Knows The Way. She is now back to committing acts of journalism at her usual pace, having gotten the all-clear from her doctors. Bravo, Ms Rao.Here we all are, uniformly bald, with even our eyebrows singed off by chemotherapy. The Babylonian Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-63032433637607680712010-07-16T18:18:00.000-07:002010-07-16T18:36:07.207-07:00Tkcacik Kicks 'Nothing-based Dystopia ' of Media“Phone sex,” writes Maureen Tkacik in the Columbia Journalism Review,is not so unlike being a reporter. A central challenge of success at both is keeping random strangers—horny guys, hostile hedge-fund managers—on the phone, talking to you, confessing to you, growing fond of you, resolving to talk to you again. And at all times, phone-sex operators, like reporters, are expected to remain detachedIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-20715239148670279002010-07-13T23:56:00.000-07:002010-07-14T00:03:25.694-07:00So how 'Despicable' is the Calendar section today? - LA ObservedSome Los Angeles Times journalists are less than rapt over the way their listings magazine, Calender, came wrapped in a movie ad. CLick this link to read full story in the original. Too much intersection between the film industry and the film reviewers.I am bracing for the multi-plex , multimedia assault by the marketeers of Eat, Pray, Love (referred to by cognoscenti as 'Eat, Pray, Barf'!)Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-36925667044199995632010-07-08T08:16:00.000-07:002010-07-08T08:20:03.666-07:00CNN Editor Fired Over Tweet Praising Hezbollah MentorIt took less than 140 characters for Octavia Nasr to end her 20-year career with CNN. And those characters weren't anything along the lines of "I quit." Slate reports that, the senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs tweeted about how she respected Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday. Fadlallah supported suicide bombings against Israel and was a critic ofIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-62036737935305817152010-07-03T00:24:00.000-07:002010-07-03T01:22:30.517-07:00Pressing the envelope: Gates Tightens Rules for Military and the MediaHat tip to THOM SHANKER of the NY Times for this piece about the new media rules since General McChrystal had his stones rolled by Hastings and lost his command. WASHINGTON — Nine days after a four-star general was relieved of command for comments made to Rolling Stone magazine, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued orders on Friday tightening the reins on officials dealing with the news Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-86623037296730300712010-07-02T23:57:00.000-07:002010-07-03T01:16:45.970-07:00Spy RingAndrew Marshall on the Russian suburbanite espionage ring, in the London Independent. Andrew Marshall: Everyone benefits from a little espionageMost world powers tacitly accept this trade-off: they spy on us, and we spy on them, and the world is a safer place as a result The Russian spy saga has been good, cheap entertainment.It has presented us with the image of shady people living underIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-21029038755827979172010-06-30T21:15:00.000-07:002010-07-01T11:02:42.448-07:00New Al Qaida Magazine Instructs 'Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom'Al-Qaida launched its first online propaganda magazine in English on Tuesday, a move that could help the terror group recruit inside the U.S. and Europe, according to the Associated Press. It's not very glossyThe magazine, called Inspire, [reportedly] is being run by al-Qaida's branch in Yemen, which has been linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a U.S.-bound airliner, according Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-57737338840984838342010-06-28T13:05:00.000-07:002010-06-28T13:13:47.615-07:00Ooh La La! Porn Merchant in Three-way bid for Le MondeJohn Lichfield, a veteran reporter for London's The Independent, reveals how the iconic French newspaper, Le Monde, is to be taken over by a consortium that includes a tycoon who built a fortune on porn. Click here to see the original article.The journalists of Le Monde, the most prestigious French-language publication in the world, have contemptuously defeated an attempt by President Nicolas Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-58628607858765713022010-06-27T07:45:00.000-07:002010-06-27T07:50:09.131-07:00'The 36 Hours That Shook Washington' by Frank Rich of NYTTHE moment he pulled the trigger, there was near-universal agreement that President Obama had done the inevitable thing, the right thing and, best of all, the bold thing. But before we get carried away with relief and elation, let’s not forget what we saw in the tense 36 hours that fell between late Monday night, when word spread of Rolling Stone’s blockbuster article, and high noon Wednesday, Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-3243311531224654222010-06-24T09:56:00.000-07:002010-06-24T10:05:53.192-07:00Rookie tennis announcer McIntosh starts bigBBC commentator Ronald McIntosh was taking charge of his first ever tennis match after bosses thought they'd ease him in with a 'minor' game on court 18. It happened to be the epic struggle between American John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. Final score 70-68 after 11 hours on court: the longest game ever at Wimbledon. That's the way the ball bounces, Ron.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-68683484597328726462010-06-10T22:11:00.000-07:002010-06-10T22:41:12.595-07:00Helen Thomas' sisters explainThe sisters of the 89-year-old doyenne of the Washington Press corps, Helen Thomas, who retired shortly after a video of her anti-Semitic statements to Rabbi David F Nesenoff went viral online, have defended her. They told blogger Richard Price of Journal-isms that the media got it wrong. three of them said Thomas was not calling for the destruction of Israel or the return of all Israelis to Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-23037920189878323042010-06-09T16:22:00.000-07:002010-06-09T16:26:39.816-07:00Do you wanna be a content provider for AOL??Here's the future of journalism, folks. No mention of pay rates, but let's hope they are commiserate with guild recommended rates.NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.David Eun, president of AOL's media and studios division, is expected to announce the push in an Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-60339027229910246422010-05-21T15:08:00.000-07:002010-05-22T18:19:24.178-07:00Canuck tweets while Bangkok burns/> The photo above courtesy of KeesIs this a good idea? Tweeting while Bangkok burns... Mark MacKinnon, an earnest Canadian journalist from the Globe & Mail, breezed in from Beijing and might have been more alert to the nuances of the situation in Thailand if he weren't thumbing his blackberry every few minutes. The chaos unfolded right outside the Foreign Press Association (at Chidlom station Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-8551491313603943252010-05-16T13:22:00.000-07:002010-05-16T13:51:52.750-07:00NYT highlights business models for onlineGrey Lady talks up some whiz-bang net start-ups: The New York Times magazine profiles the Faster Times. Journalism as we now know it is measured by clicks. Uh-huh. Feral Beast could have enlightened the reporter on such mundane matters: the top-ever hits on our site are for items tagged "Marilyn Monroe Fellatio" or "Kiddie porn". There's a reason that aggravating aggregators like the HuffPo nowIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-47149093767092856972010-05-07T22:08:00.000-07:002010-05-07T22:15:57.667-07:00Uh oh. X Rated.How 'bout that Barack Obama Hussein X? Rad, Man in de (White) house.The WashPo online had some quick correcting to do when they somehow confounded the present prez with the late preacher... so these page grabs by Gawker have got to be embarrassing indeedIzzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-82915115704030336612010-05-02T00:03:00.000-07:002010-05-02T00:09:38.680-07:00Obama shines at White House Correspondents' DinnerA teleprompter speech, written by others,,,but the Prez rocked it and the press ate it up. !Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-66159920066870204672010-04-30T23:58:00.000-07:002010-05-01T00:11:16.659-07:00Fox TV's awkward Soy Jism momentCommentator Rosanna Scotto milks the moment on live tv - and her Fox co-anchors don't quite know quite where to look. Gasps and giggles...."That's an option, too...." Uh-huh.Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298977613263259207.post-68836769910221206302010-04-09T22:21:00.000-07:002010-04-09T22:44:07.103-07:00Time to go for Karen Tumulty, who shifts to WashPostWashington insider, Karen Tumulty, is moving on from TIME mag. . She promises to keep slog-blogging in SWAMPLAND, on Time.com, despite her impending move back to the Washington Post. See her farewell post, plus a good discussion underway from her fans,trolls and miscellaneous wingnuts and moonbats. Click here for her personal note. Hat tip to Romenesko for the link. I liked best the effusive Izzy Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289935006222451301noreply@blogger.com0