NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalis. I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick.
Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea – when thirteen innocent people are dead. I’m talking, of course, about Thursday’s Fort Hood shootings.
Better informed and more sensitive commentators than I have written about the massacre itself and what it means for the US army, and in particular for the thousands of Muslim soldiers currently fighting – and dying – for this country. AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened. He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the La.
April 12, 2009 He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin.
Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say decline has set in. Obama’s Ethics Reform Promise Faces Early Test. Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? Obama Transition Team Adopts Ethics Rules.