Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship - I used the word symbiosis: check the definition - between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post was this: [...] Most PRs and journalists add little value to truth-telling if they’re nothing more than channels or conduits who distort and manipulate the original message. Assuming, of course, that their roles are to do with truth-telling. If you want to get … [Read more...] about The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Journalism
The real symbiosis between PR and journalism
It is a self-regarding conceit of journalism that we are the dogs for whom public relations furnishes the lamp posts, says John Lloyd writing in the Financial Times. In a jaundiced view of the relationship between journalism and PR in politics, Lloyd's "The Truth about Spin" in Friday's FT presents an uncomfortable partnership between two professions where neither appears to have anything other than self-interest as its motive for being: There is a phrase attributed to, among … [Read more...] about The real symbiosis between PR and journalism
Blogging past, present and maybe
I can't imagine how I missed Time for the last post, a story in the Financial Times last month (I read the online paper daily) - a lengthy commentary on blogs, blogging and bloggers. It's not the usual mainstream media blog-analysis guff. Written by Trevor Butterworth, it's a sharp and perceptive view of past, present and possible future. For instance: [...] blogging would have been little more than a recipe for even more internet tedium if it had not been seized upon in the US as a direct … [Read more...] about Blogging past, present and maybe
First paper-less daily newspaper
De Tijd newspaper of Antwerp, Belgium, will soon become the world's first newspaper to publish a digital version on 'electronic paper' which is automatically updated during the day. From a report in Tech M&C: [...] Instead of buying your daily paper, from April 2006, 200 subscribers will be able to start the day by connecting a portable electronic device supplied by De Tijd to the internet and start downloading their daily paper. Updates will be automatic during the day, if subscribers have … [Read more...] about First paper-less daily newspaper
ProfNet bloggers
Dan Forbush has posted an interesting collection of links to blogs (and podcasts) that are being written by members of ProfNet: How many ProfNet members and experts, we wonder, write blogs that are squarely rooted in their primary area of professional, academic or business expertise? Although we have no specific plan to aggregate blogs or blog content, we're certainly interested in serving bloggers as both query originators and responders, and so we're undertaking an inventory of what our own … [Read more...] about ProfNet bloggers