Category Archives: Authority Issues
Charlie Brooker — How To Report The News
Brilliant deconstruction of television news, which I learned about from Peter Kafka on MediaMemo.
It makes me a little sad to think that television news can be so easily skewered. I’m pretty sure my idealized mental image of Edward R. Murrow would scowl disapprovingly. However, I harbor a little internal, print-centric glee that television news [...]
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‘Public’ Consultation Over ACTA In Mexico Almost Required NDAs, Blogger Removed For Tweeting
Geraldine Juarez writes in to let us know of her experience attending what was billed as a “public hearing” about the ACTA treaty in Mexico (link in Spanish, Google translation here), which sounded really messed up. First, despite it being a public hearing, originally those putting on the event wanted attendees to sign nondisclosure [...]
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United Kingdom delegation thinks transparency is key to ACTA negotiations
The United Kingdom’s delegation to the negotiations on ACTA, the secret copyright “treaty” being hammered out behind closed doors made this statement recently on what is, essentially, a European FOIA request for access to parts of the agreement:
More broadly with respect to ACTA the UK considers that transparency is crucial to ensure the legitimacy of [...]
Who owns the e-mail interview?
Paul Bradshaw, writing for Poynter, has raised some great questions about interviews conducted by e-mail.
Bradshaw was interviewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that person would mind if Bradshaw published the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data.
The journalist minded, saying, eventually, that [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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