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Glenn Beck's 'Blaze' News Site Is Up, With Year-Old Lead Story
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- After only one day of "Blazing," Glenn Beck is already looking a bit slow. Today, fresh off his successful "Restoring Honor" rally over the weekend, the Fox News personality launched his new "news, information, and opinion" website The Blaze, leading with the following video expose. It covers Ricardo Dominguez, a University of California, San Diego professor who retrofits cheap cell phones with a simple GPS application to help save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing a perilous stretch of desert between Mexico and the United States. It's an important story, no doubt. So ...
Opinion: The Sherrod Saga's Lessons for Journalists
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(July 22) -- The 24-hour fall and rise of Shirley Sherrod should be a teaching moment for the U.S. media as well as the Obama administration. It used to be -- back in the dinosaur age when I started at United Press International in the 1970s -- that reporters picked up the phone and actually called people alleged to have said controversial things before going public with a story. It was called the right of fair comment. I never went to journalism school -- UPI was my J-school – but I assume someone still teaches this dusty principle to those quixotic enough to want to join this ...
China Tightens Control of Blogs and Microblogs
By Jonathan Adams - AOL NewsTAIPEI, Taiwan (July 16) -- China appears to have tightened restrictions over blogs and "microblogs" in the last week, underscoring Beijing authorities' jitters over the subversive potential of social media. The Associated Press says that several bloggers had reported that their sites were down as of Thursday evening. "I was writing a new post, and suddenly my blog couldn't open," lawyer Pu Zhiqiang told the AP on Thursday. Ng Han Guan, AP Dozens of blogs by some of China's most outspoken users have been abruptly shut down while popular Twitter-like services appear to be the newest target ...
Campaign Attack Ads: As Old As the Edsel
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt has been lost in the mists of political history, but a 10-second clip from the 1956 presidential campaign is America's forgotten film classic, the primitive black-and-white precursor of the modern TV attack ad. Cynically exploiting the fears raised by popular President Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack, the cash-strapped Adlai Stevenson campaign aimed its TV arrows at Ike's gutter-fighting vice president. The brief commercial begins with a grainy photograph of a callow-looking Richard Nixon while an off-screen male announcer asks, "Nervous about Nixon? President Nixon?" Spooky ...
Washington Post Blogger David Weigel Resigns, Chronicles Scandal on Twitter
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyLike any good blogger, former Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel is covering the scandal. Except this time, it's his own. Weigel resigned today when a slew of his crude remarks about conservatives on a private e-mail list became public. The Post, which hired him last year as a conservative writer to write a blog about the conservative movement, was embarrassed. Some of the comments were immature and others were vicious. One, for example, included the hope that big-time conservative blogger Matt Drudge would light himself on fire. "This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt ...
Women in New Media: At the Top or in the Trenches?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyHere's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
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