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Journalistic narcissism

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 04/07/2009

At the Aspen Ideas Festival this week, Andrew Sullivan said, “Journalism has become too much about journalists.” True. It’s not just that newspapers are covering their own demise as thoroughly as Michael Jackson’s. This is about the mythology that news needs newspapers – ...

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MJ OD

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 02/07/2009

When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn’t take long to see the divergence: TV thinks we’re still buzzing about MJ. But online, we’re not. Here’s Blogpu ...

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The King of Twitter

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 26/06/2009

Reporters have been calling today looking into the importance of Twitter and social media in the two big stories of the month: Iran and Michael Jackson. Have we come to a next step stage in social media’s impact on news? Maybe. Certainly the Jackson news spread quickly via Twitter. TMZ.com got ...

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Posners dangerous thinking

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 26/06/2009

Mike Masnick on techdirt points us to some dangerous and incomplete thinking from Judge Richard Posner on his blog. At the bottom, Posner writes:Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing co ...

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State coverage as a worthy charity

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 22/06/2009

There’s nothing unsexier in journalism than covering state government. “Trenton bureau” just doesn’t have the same ring as “Paris bureau,” does it? Do you know the names of your statehouse reps? I’ll confess I don’t. And so my biggest fear in the death ...

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