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Tag Archives: New York Times
Mr. Sulzberger, don’t tear down this wall
“I DON’T UNDERSTAND the current debate over the New York Times paywall,” former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski wrote on his ZDNet blog Tuesday, the day after the NYT erected said wall. The moved sparked a heated discussion about whether … Continue reading
New York Times grows less ‘Rich’
IN HIS FINAL column for the New York Times yesterday, Frank Rich explained his reasons for leaving a job that many would regard as one of the greatest in the news business for a “fresh adventure in journalism” at New … Continue reading
Boo to you, PC wussies
A COUPLE OF big boos go out to tight-asses on both sides of the 49th parallel in light of several ridiculous, make-me-want-to-pull-my-hair-out examples of political correctness run amok. The first is for the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, which – apparently based on … Continue reading
Celebrity Scandal, Currently, God Bless America, Media Matters, Oh Canada, Pop Culture, Weird and wacky
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, American literature, Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, censorship, Dire Straits, Macleans magazine, Mark Knopfler, Mark Twain, Money for Nothing, New York Times, Paul Wells, political correctness
Wayback on the Web
BLOG TO had a cool post the other day that used the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine to show what Toronto newspaper websites looked like more than a decade ago, in the early days of the World Wide Web. It’s pretty … Continue reading
Beatles for sale
NOT TO BE a shill for Apple, but this is pretty cool: At this point I’ve already ripped most of my Beatles music from CDs and put it on my iPod, but this is great news for younger generations who’ve … Continue reading
All the names that aren’t fit to print
NEW YORK TIMES standards editor Philip Corbett recently issued a memo to NYT’s reporters and editors concerning the use /abuse of anonymous sources. The document, posted on Gawker, is interesting reading for media watchers. I can’t speak to what’s going with most … Continue reading
Facing reality
THE COVER of the Aug. 9 issue of Time has generated a fair bit of controversy among those on both sides of the debate over the war in Afghanistan. The magazine’s front features a disturbing image of an 18-year-old Afghan … Continue reading
Keeping Apple honest
NEW YORK TIMES media columnist David Carr had an interesting piece in last Sunday’s paper looking at the role Consumer Reports played in the iPhone4-reception debacle. The magazine said it can’t recommend the phone because of issues with the antenna, which wraps … Continue reading