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Journalism and ‘the words of power’

28 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Excellent, must-read from Robert Fisk:

This isn't just about clichés – this is preposterous journalism. There is no battle between power and the media. Through language, we have become them.

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this vocabulary is not adopted through political connivance. It is an infection that we all suffer from – I've used 'peace process' a few times myself, though with quotation marks which you can't use on television – but yes, it's a contagion.

And when we use these words, we become one with the power and the elites which rule our world without fear of challenge from the media.

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Commercial Hack Day Results

26 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Michael Brunton-Spall:

The Guardian ran a 'Developer Challenge' as part of the Open Platform launch last week. The idea was to emulate the Hack Day formula but with an interesting twist: our media partners gave us briefs to answer.

We asked all the media partners invited to attend the launch event to stay and brainstorm concepts with us that would demonstrate the power of the Open Platform. For example, they could ask us to create an engaging user experience around gardening DIY, eco friendly travel, social search, mapping, etc.

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Journalism with depth – Philly Inquirer goes 3-D – Editors Weblog

24 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Colin Heilbut:

“The Inquirer’s move follows a recent global trend in experimenting with 3-D daily papers. Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure was the first European paper to use 3D technology in a publication, and their efforts resulted in an increase in circulation from 85,000 to 115,000 copies. The Sun, a British tabloid owned by News International, will be releasing their own 3-D World Cup edition on June 5th. Despite the increased sales and higher premium publishers can charge for 3-D advertisements, the technology remains cost prohibitive to use on a regular basis. It also remains to be seen if this sort of gimmick can help make a substantial impact on a publication with as much red ink as the Inquirer.”

Cost-prohibitive? Right. What I don’t get is why there doesn’t seem to be an outcry against the environmental impact of such experimentation… environmentally-prohibitive?

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Last attempts to avert BA strikes – BBC News

23 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

The Twitter entries under the name derekamicus, on a page with photograph of Mr Simpson, included, "Arguments over the 8 sacked workers," and then, "Fear of more sackings to come."

Unite insisted "references to Tweeting are peripheral to the real concerns to passengers" and that it was "ready to resume talks with BA at any time"."

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