links for 2007-06-09
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 13:21
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Despite the innocence of the photographers, the ‘Diana effect’ which dampens criticism, scrutiny and a free exchange of ideas in the name of protecting privacy and sensibilities was starting to dominate our culture back then and continues to haunt it
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Now this FOI amendment is one we should support: This one, from Lib Dem Tom Brake, would introduce time limits on public interest tests and scrap the ministerial veto.
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“If there’s one thing that this job has taught me, it is that it’s harder to teach many journalists to be good bloggers than it is a random member of the public. They have too much to unlearn first, too many long-established mindsets to let go of.”
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Richard Sambrook: “There are over 10,000 members of the BBC [Facebook] group (for which you have to have a bbc email) alone. That’s about half the entire organsiation.”
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Alfred Hermida has written a paper on the ethical dilemnas that Facebook and ‘digital doorstepping’ poses for journalists.
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A Jason Fry article in the Wall Street Journal highlights that digital immigrants’ worries about young people’s self-exposure on social media sites is a case of “modernist fears of postmodern behaviour”.
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“PRWeek writes about the varying public relations strategies being used by the players in the bidding for Dow Jones.”
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Steve Boriss: “’Citizen journalist’ implies that the truly legitimate position is ‘journalist’ with the adjective ‘citizen’ used as a qualifier to diminish status, as in Vice President”
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WSJ interview with Rupert Murdoch, about the Dow Jones acquisition but also covering Google, MySpace and Facebook.
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