Andrew Brown (whose blog feed is now full-text - marvellous!) notes, in the you’ll-have-to-look-it-up entitled post Don’t have sex with Roman Catholics notes how the process Nick Davies has been on about - “churnalism” (which gets its own, much-deserved excoriation at the Churner Prize blog) - whereby the accountants decide how much should be spent on researching stories, rather than the journalists or news executives, progressed on our last mutual paper:
On the Independent we were privileged to watch this process, which took about twenty years in the rest of the press, compressed into the five years from 1991 to 1996. By the end of that time the joke, or slogan, was that one phone call was a news story, two made a feature, and three an in-depth investigation. Technology has slightly altered this equation, so that it is now possible to write one of the paper’s full-length “profiles” without talking to anyone even on the ph...
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A friend in Fried From: washingtonmonthly.com Post Date: 2008-10-24 13:09:09
A FRIEND IN FRIED I’ve been following these Obama-endorsing Republicans with great interest, but there’s clearly a distinction between surprising GOP support and the more predictable GOP support. Scott McClellan? Not a surprise. Ken Adelman? A surprise. Colin Powell? Not...... more
D.L. Hugley has a new gig at CNN (basically my dream job), and one of his first guests is former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan who says he has decided to vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
McClellan worked under George W. Bush’s administration before he quit and heavily criticized the president for his actions in Iraq.
"From the very beginning I have said I am going to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting th... more
Minnesota madness From: thedailypage.com Post Date: 2008-10-24 11:29:04
by Average Joe (Posted Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:29:04 GMT) Henry Vilas wrote: Average Joe wrote: GOP former governor William Weld of Massachusetts also endorsed Obama. I don’t remember ever having this many high profile members of a political party endorsing the candidate of another political party. The good book is correct, you really do reap what you sow. They’ve practiced the politics of division, and now they have a divided party. I’d call it the revenge of the RINOs.... more
William Leith - argh! flashback! - wrote a TV review in the Guardian the other day, talking about Mad Men (as in, the men who ruled Madison Avenue), and said
it’s a drama set in the early 1960s, when the world was simpler and less screwed up… It’s 1963, and the mad men are the ad men of Madison Avenue, in New York.
Lots of others are doing it. The Times :
a new US drama set in the world of advertising on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s
. (Not the Daily M... more
I’m sitting on the train, using my Apple laptop.
Just opposite is a guy using a Dell. Who also has an iPhone.
Question: which of us puts more money in Apple’s pocket? My MacBook is a one-off purchase - there’s no ongoing payment to Apple through it.
By contrast, the iPhone involves a (rolling?) contract that lasts - correct me, I’m offline when I write this - 18 months, during which one puts a lot of money into Apple’s coffers. (And O2’s, of... more
John McEnroe, with masterly disdain, proclaims what he thinks of golf: “If you don’t run, it ain’t a sport.”
What does that make golf, then? A pastime? A recreation? For professionals, it’s an occupation. I do like McEnroe’s dichotomy - applying it would chop lots of stuff out of the sports sections. (Sadly not the football. But “if you kick a ball, it’s not sport” would seem rather obtuse.)
The thing the unites all the “... more
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