links for 2006-10-18

Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 17:24

• Times: Amateur ‘video bloggers’ under threat from EU broadcast rules
  The European Commission’s proposed audio-visual services directive would hit small online publishers and user-generated content sites hardest, the Times’ report suggests.
  (tags: eu television regulation avservicesdirective youtube)
• New York Observer: Stern says former readers are “cretins”
  Disgraced Page Six columnist Jared Paul Stern says the average New York Post reader “is a complete cretin” and says his new book will tell all about New York gossip journalism.
  (tags: journalism usa nypost gossip)
• Hayden Shaughnessy: Well Said is Not Always Well Written
  Hayden Shaughnessy examines the recieved wisdom of Web 2.0 journalism. Readers are only rarely writers, and the real issue is newspapers’ cost stuctures as advertising moves online.
  (tags: web2.0 journalism newspapers advertising)

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