Posts by Russell Brown
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But if you're vox-popped or polled, or participate in a protest, you know you have a reasonable chance of being news. Writing any old cr*p in an blog comments thread hasn't (until now?) had the same status.
Can I quote you on that? ;-)
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__ Anonymous internet posts often give us a conduit into what people think but are too scared to openly say.__
That's a bit of a sad indictment on journalists. There's plenty of good stuff out there on the internet - good quality professional and amateur investigation which has ended up being 'real news'.
I'm with Robyn here. In context, what people are saying on the internet is news, in the same way that vox pops, polls and protests are news.
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Does anyone have a contact for nz on air? I gotta get dibs on it before some TVNZ reporter reads this and gives that Russell Brown credit for the idea.
It's called Ask Your Aunties and it's on Maori Television. Sorry to end your TV production career so brutally soon.
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Power Line caught MSNBC attributing a quote from Al Sharpton about whether the prosecution of Michael Vick was racist. It was actually from the fake Al Sharpton's blog.
The item on Power Line was also worth noting for being worth reading. Time magazine's "blog of the year" has gone a long, long way off into wingnut land.
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The idea that there's nothing in 'correct English' which doesn't include words which are actually 'common usage based on error' of some earlier spelling, pronounciation. 's' used to be written more like 'f'. I don't see anyone standing up to demand that everyone do that anymore.
I guess some of us get antsy when the incorrect-but-accepted meaning kills off the real meaning of some very fine words.
I suspect that the battle has been lost with "enormity", and people will now happily use it as a synonym for "magnitude" and not to mean "horror". Tell me that's not a damn shame.
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I wish there could be a little more research done so they could provide a balanced story. Checking facts and posting the correct attributions seem to be beyond some journalists.
Although they're getting better, newspapers can be very poor at attribution of online sources. It probably partly stems from the fact that they're so (word of the week!) niggardly about attributing to each other.
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True again. And with each reporter that heads off for better money in PR/Comms, leaving a 20 year old in their place, you could say they're actually less expert than many of us. When a journo doesn't know who David Lange is, for example, you might have cause to despair. Personally I'm in favour of reporters having set rounds where they can specialise and become sort-of experts,
I wholeheartedly agree. As an "expert" whose phone number is in a few contacts lists, I've had many camera crews around over the years, and I'm struck by the way that the reporters who come around are almost always (a) generalists, and (b) young.
You end up not so much commenting as explaining the story to them. Most of what you say turns up in the script and you're onscreen for about 15 seconds with a soundbite.
I understand the resource pressures -- and the unfortuate tendency for experienced journalists to bugger off to PR -- but I think this interweb thingy is important enough now for there to be either a roundsperson, or someone at editorial level who can keep an eye on the reporting.
I don't honestly think we've been damaged here -- anyone who recognised the PA masthead would probably know that the screaming quote in question was not my work -- but there's the potential for a really calamitous mistake to be made.
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oops I meant to say Toby - not Tony.
No, it is Tony, actually. I mistyped, but I've fixed it now.
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Webweaver reprazents!
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Something I forgot to mention in the post is that the emails also confirm that record companies are using P2P for conventional marketing intelligence. At least one of the emails has a record company client prepared to yank a single in favour of another tune that has a better buzz on the P2P sites. Fascinating.
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