links for 2007-07-22

Nicholas Lemann continues the bloggers vs.journalists thing in an interview with a German newspaper. “Bloggers may be journalists, but they are not reporters.” Yawn.

Reviews of “When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina” and ”
American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media”.

Times reveals using FOI: “More than 300 top-flight footballers are avoiding millions of pounds of income tax by using loopholes that Gordon Brown pledged to close more than a decade ago.”

“Exponential growth does strange things to people. In most cases this involves abandoning common sense and any sense of perspective.”