New media enters the White HouseA choreographed question between the Huffington Post and Barack Obama at a recent press conference raises questions about bloggers’ roles as journalists and the place of new media in the White House.
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Obama and HuffPo stage a PR stunt
The Huffington Post came up with a great gimmick to get its blogger called on at Obama’s press conference on Iran: field questions directly from Iran. And the White House were more than happy to join in.
Huffington Post: cheap, trashy and parasitic
The Huffington Post “likes to masquerade as a forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting journalistic institution”, says Simon Dumenco, but they don’t pay most of their writers, and leech most of their content from “real” journalists.
Nepotism at work: celebrity media interns
Riding their family names into gigs that should probably go to journalism graduates, this year’s celeb intern class includes Elyssa Spitzer at The Huffington Post, Theo Spielberg at New York magazine and Tallulah Willis at Harper’s Bazaar.
HuffPo: liberal but sexist?
Exactly what do nipple slips and boob jobs have to do with liberal politics? asks the Washington City Paper.
HuffPo’s front page: only 6% original content
Bloggasm uses the power of maths to assess whether the Huffington Post is ” making a significant contribution to original reporting.” The result? Not so much.
The award for the most bitterly ironic media award goes to…
Why is Syracuse University giving a journalism award to Arianna Huffington — a woman who thinks journalists should work for free? asks Simon Dumenco.
Budding journo bids $13,000 for HuffPo internship
A charity auction for a two- or three-month internship at the Huffington Post has collected bids as high as $13,000, in a sign of just how bad the media job market has become.
Get over it media giants, we’re going to co-opt your copy
Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition, says Slate’s Jack Shafer.
The future of “quality” journalism: lots of questions, few answers
A bunch of media people gathered at the ABC’s in Sydney last week to discuss the future of journalism, and not one of them whinged about bloggers.
Media briefs: HuffPo journalism fund… Molly, er, jolly…
All the news on the news makers. Including the story that Twitter is O.V.A.
US08 media wrap: Another Super Tuesday for the Dems
March 4, 2008. Will it be the day Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency finally succumbs to Obama-mania? asks
State of the planet
Rural Australians to pay price for climate change … Polar bears and people … China’s great green leap forward? … Melting ice displaces walruses in the Russian Arctic … Guyana’s forests offered as huge carbon offset
Buying The Wall Street Journal
Murdoch’s latest aquisition made headlines across the world.
Iraq latest: Congress votes to withdraw
What the US commentariat are saying about the Iraq interim report.
