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Paper paid to print only good news
Tuesday | October 25, 2005 | 8:41 am
Did I miss a day of journalism school?
Because I don’t remember when Don Ranly said it was OK to be paid by a city’s council to print only good news.
If I were the Star-Ledger, the local daily, I’d start up a marketing campaign pronto. I don’t think it’s worth attacking this joke of a weekly, but a campaign along the lines of “Good news. Bad news. And everything in between.” might be just what the doctor ordered.
It’s bad enough that we’ve got propaganda at the national level, but to see this blatant pay-off at the local level is disturbing.
If the Newark Weekly News is publicly admitting to taking money for publishing good news, then how many other papers are doing the same thing, only we haven’t heard about it.
Local bloggers, start your engines!
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Google’s RSS reader does one thing well
Thursday | October 13, 2005 | 8:24 am
Google’s RSS/Atom reader might have a really weird interface.
But it is doing one thing well…
Bloglines now has keyboard shortcuts!
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An interesting approach, but I like the Bloglines/NetNewsWire interface(s) better.
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