PressEthic

Hey, AP. Anti-Castro much?

Of course he forgot to mention Iraqi death toll estimates. But why did the press?

The way missing persons stories work is intuitive. Get as much media on the story as possible, so the news can spread as far as. . . the UK?

It's moments like these that make me treasure modern technology.

Scott McLellan isn’t “nice-guy Scott” anymore, reporters tell Howard Kurtz.

Most major dailies mentioned nothing of the FBI shooting death—some call it assassination—of 72 yr. old Puerto Rican revolutionary Filiberto Ojeda Rios. So why has the Hartford Courant run 17 articles about him?

To stay hip, news needs to go the way of Ipods and Itunes, says David Carr.

Four Terrorist Bombings You Didn’t Hear About

The magazine’s sold out town-hall meeting on the future of Iraq was surprisingly “lopsided.”

According to blog trackers Technocrati, a new blog is created every second. Okay, but who's creating them?

What happens when a major daily leaves out a fact?

Neil Young gets mad. Real mad. Then he tears up your newspaper at a press conference.

The NY Times says: “The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based civil rights and advocacy group, called for an investigation after details of the photographs were described in news media and online reports.”

The most harrowing images of Iraqi carnage haven’t come from the press. They’ve come from the military.

American porn site gives free access to soldiers in Iraq in exchange for “real pictures you or your buddies have taken while you have been deployed. This section is for the gory ones so that people who do not wish to see that kind of stuff can just not go in here."

Who said television reporters were actually journalists? Not New York Magazine.