Saturday, August 01, 2009
LaGuardia bomb scare coverage
So how does the media do on a Saturday morning in August when there's a bomb scare that shuts down all of LaGuardia?Not so well.
The Notify NYC alert went out at 8 a.m. that all flights were canceled.
As I'm starting to gather links for this post now at 9:15 a.m., the New York Times has it front and center online, but it's entirely a story from the Associated Press. The AP picture, and thus the NY Times lead art, is from Twitpic.
By coincidence, it was the same Twitpic I posted about an hour ago on the NewYorkology story. (The photographer allowed AP to use the pix, he told me.)
The Daily News had a very good staff-written story very early on including an anonymous cop telling them the ruckus was over a drunk guy who said he had a bimb, and indeed had a fake device in his bag.
The Post had nothing earlier, not even AP, but now that have a staff-written story played big on the front page, along with the Twitpic image now distributed by AP.
I first learned of the event (prior to the 8 a.m. Notify NYC alert) from a tweet from my pal Marilyn Terrell at National Geographic in D.C.
The first best source I could find was CNN, which actually as best as I could tell was getting its info from AP. Although it was unclear to me if their first unsouorced on-air remarks were something they sourced themselves or did as an uncredited pickup.
As for official sources the Port Authority's website has zilch and its Airport e-mail alerts (which granted, I subscribed to the LGA feed after the airport was closed) has yet to send me anything other than a "welcome" e-mail.
It's now 9:40 a.m. and Notify NYC has not yet said the airport has reopened, though passengers using Twitter and reuters said it has.
I have yet to receive a single e-mail news alert from any i subscribe to - including the NY Times, MSNBC, Washington Post or AP.
Ok, here we go: Notify NYC says "8/1/2009 9:38:00 AM
LaGuardia Airport- Reopeded
Notification 2 issued August 1, 2009 at 9:40 AM. LaGuardia Airport has reopened at this time. Expect flight delays."
And just to clarify for people who aren't my regular readers, I'm not in any way saying Twitter is better than old-school journalism. It's an important suorce for finding leads and verifying facts. My concern is that it appears a huge majority of the news came through the Associated Press. Props also go to the Daily News, and later to Reuters for getting an official source to say the airport was open except for Concourse C. Those news outfits are vital for pulling the whole story together using both official and witness accounts and using good judgement and experience to determine which might be flawed -- and ask more questions -- if different versions are in dispute.
I was disappointed NYTimes went entirely with AP. And I was hugely disappointed the only e-mail news alert I got was from NYC.gov's Notify NYC.
Also, it was disappointing -- though not unexpected -- to see a few online blog-news outfits "reporting" the airport had been re-opened and not citing a source for their information. I wasted time trying to track down their info, which as best I could tell wasn't true.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Dirty Internet thieves
I'm having a ready-to-throw-in-the-towel morning at NewYorkology again. I'm a content person. And I don't cheat, "borrow" or steal online. And for those reasons (and yes, many others,)I will always be out-moused as long as I remain independent.
So without getting too deep into the big picture, here's the most mind-boggling case this morning. I was looking for some content in my archives, using the Google search engine. On some search terms, my stuff doesn't show up on the front page of results, but instead I see my content on other sites that have scraped NewYorkology's content in part -- or in whole.
So, have a look at the current NewYorkology front page. And then have a look at these screen grabs of part of their page (as I'm not going to link to the offending site.)
There is seriously NO content on that page that isn't mine, besides the Google ads, banner at the top and a Weather Channel box. They're even feeding in my jump pages as part of their front page, I assume to get even more keywords in one place.
No contact info of course, so I sent e-mail to their proxy through WhoIs. The next step is to contact Google, which you can no longer do by e-mail. So I'll write up a complaint to them with all the documentation, in hopes that sometime down the line they'll prohibit that site from selling Google Ads, and thus force them to find another way to monetize my stolen content.
And no, I'm not looking for solutions to try this or that, or contact a lawyer or get my IT guys to do XYZ. I'm just venting. The offenders are probably in Moscow or Nigeria. And it's a total whack-a-mole game as there's always going to be 10 more tomorrow. I've mostly given up chasing these types of guys down, but this (and another this morning,) is outranking me in Google with my own content.
Earlier: Will aggregators kill the news?
Bruni dines on Eater, leaves without paying
Calling out thieving BuddyTV
'Courtesy of' my cold thieving hands
Bad attribution, British style
More NYT attribution - on a military law blog
On attribution, linking and fairness
Update: At least one reader on Twitter was confused, so maybe I should clarify. Amy's New York Notebook (the site you're reading now) is the personal website of Amy Langfield, who is the editor of NewYorkology.com. NewYorkology's content was ripped off by a completely different website (shown above) but they're not named or linked to here because that would only improve their search engine rankings further. This by the way, is the current top of the NewYorkology website for comparison:
Update II: As of Tuesday morning, NewYorkology's stuff is gone from the front page of the offending site, though the cache files show he copied HUGE portions of the site. The front page now looks like this:
Labels: media
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
On sharing your freinds' e-mails
Thrillist offers an example why it's not nice to "e-mail this article to your friend." This landed in my inbox today:
You're Invited
A while back, your friend (NAME REDACTED) sent you an article from Thrillist — the free daily email that sifts through the crap to find the newest restaurants, bars, events, gear, gadgets and services.
For some insane reason, you didn't sign up. We'll forgive you if you accept your invitation within the next 7 days.
Each day, you'll get one quick email on the best of what's new in your city and across the web. Whatever it is, we promise it won't suck.
You can read our Deal before accepting your invitation, or just get on the list now.
(My friend's name was redacted by me for this post.)
Labels: media
Friday, March 06, 2009
On or off the record
There are a few interesting media points in today's theater column by Michael Riedel in the Post.
Earlier, he wrote some unflattering things about Mary-Louise Parker's supposed diva-like behavior during her current Broadway run of "Hedda Gabler." In response, she called him up and asked him out for coffee -- a meeting she recently mentioned to a Broadway.com reporter.
I wasn't sure if our meeting, at City Bakery, was on or off the record, but since Mary-Louise has now spoken of it, I will, too.There is no suggestion that he called up to confirm his new understanding that they were indeed on the record, but he proceeds to treat the conversation as if they were. Though I suppose you could argue that if you're talking to a gossip columnist for the Post, one should assume it's all on the record.
Further on, as she notes the errors in his column bit says there were "kernels of truth," he defends his profession this way:
I replied that the nature of gossip-column writing was such that if you get hold of a wisp of something, you turn it into a tornado. Or, to use her metaphor, if you find a few kernels, you sow a cornfield.
Labels: media
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Newsday and copyright
Here's an interesting little thing I came across at Newsday's TV Zone blog:
Here's a nice full clean clip from a Chinese TV network (of all places) of last night's show closing performance. There are number of other clips on Youtube, too, if you prefer. Watch before CBS deactivates, which could be any minute now...
TVZone then embeds the U2 clip.
So think about that. Newsday, which is thinking about putting its online content behind a paid wall, has one of its blogs posting content it knows has been stolen from another company and is encouraging its readers to click on the link before CBS' legal team puts a stop to it. Presumably CBS would prefer you either watch the clip on TV, when it's surrounded by ads, or on the CBS website, where they get credit for your eyeballs.
So, tell me again, why is it that no one can find a viable business model for funding original news gathering?
(By the way, the husband and I were at the Letterman/U2 taping on Monday. It was a total coincidence that we got tickets. When we walked by the Ed Sullivan theater on Sunday, there was a sign outside saying "free tickets." There were only two people in line, so we filled out a form for the lottery. They called my cell phone about two hours later saying we were confirmed for Monday. Details here.)Thursday, February 12, 2009
A fishy fleeing-Dubai story
Am I the only one whose BS meter went off over the story about foreigners in debt fleeing Dubai and abandoning their cars at the airport?
The papers keep reporting that some people are even leaving notes of apology on the windshield.
Right, because if you're fleeing the country to avoid jail over bankruptcy, you'll leave a note that could be found by cops before you get away.
Best as I can tell it first ran in the Times of London last week.
Here are the sources for that story:
"said one senior airport security official, who did not want to be named"
"one senior banker said"
"a Western diplomat"
"Louise, a single mother from Britain"
The only identifiable source comes at the end:
Simon Goldsmith, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Dubai, said that that there were approximately 100,000 Britons living in Dubai last year. However, the embassy has no way of tracking how many have fled back to the UK. “We’ve heard stories, but when somebody makes that kind of decision, they generally keep it to themselves,” he said.
So the story got picked up a lot, including today by the New York Times. Weird thing in their story as well, including the attribution here:
Some are said to have maxed-out credit cards inside and notes of apology taped to the windshield.And the reporter's tagline is odd as well:
A New York Times employee in Dubai contributed reporting.
To add just one more layer of weird, this story from the Gulf News on Saturday: "Only 11 cars abandoned at airport in past year."
Related: That swim-across-the-Atlantic story: not true.
Labels: media
Monday, February 09, 2009
What Sully's reading
Mayor Bloomberg just gave a book to Capt. Sullenberger (along with the keys to the city.) The book replaces one that is probably still at the bottom of the Hudson.
The book -- which the pilot had borrowed from my mom's alma mater, Fresno State University -- is Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability.
Currently, it's ranked 260,374 in sales at Amazon.
Update: Now, 24 hours later, it's ranked 3,064
Labels: media
Aussie fire coverage
The long BBC America radio report this morning on the Australian fires was just a muddled mess that left me entirely confused. Thank goodness I've still got That Happy Feeling in my RSS feed as he's got a report (via Facebook no less) that paints the picture well. Air temperatures are as high as 118 and the death toll is expected to hit 200. Very scary stuff. Two excerpts:
One man related the fire as an enormous ball that flew down the hill in seconds; others said it was like a tornado or a cyclone. Others said it was raining fire; another said it was like a freight train. They describe the roaring, crackling sounds and intense, radiant heat. A man said that his water tank holding 5000 gallons of water boiled. Residents who sought refuge in Jacuzzis or water tanks perished.
And here:
What is hard to describe to those not from Australia is the vastness of the areas that have been burned. The fire commissioner reported that there were 450 fires burning; so far 330,000 hectares have been burned, and more than 700 houses lost. For those of you in the US, Victoria is about the size of Texas, I think. Imagine if fires broke out simultaneously near Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Wichita Falls. And then gale force winds blew embers so that new fires erupted 30 miles away. And lightning ignited more, inaccessible fires in remote national parks in other parts of the state. The walls of flame are miles across and 15 stories high, moving at gale force speed.
Labels: media
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Appropriate use of profanity
Loved this image in Iceland, which you can see on the website of artist Daniel Magnusson.
Scroll halfway down the page, to the field of green grass.
Labels: media
Friday, December 26, 2008
Will aggregators kill the news?
In the New Yorker, James Surowiecki writes about the death of news:
For a while now, readers have had the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the old, high-profit regime—intensive reporting, experienced editors, and so on—and the low costs of the new one. But that situation can’t last. Soon enough, we’re going to start getting what we pay for, and we may find out just how little that is.
Labels: media
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Red Hook, so very far
The New York Times oddly has a little story today about the "Where is Osama" sign in Red Hook. It says:
It is quiet evidence, all these years later and all these miles from ground zero, that someone remembers — and remembers and remembers.How many miles?
That's 3.4 miles, according to Google Maps.
Maybe "all these miles" refers to how it feels if you're getting to Red Hook with the help of the B61 bus.
Labels: brooklyn, media, red hook
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Bruni dines on Eater, leaves without paying
The New York Times Frank Bruni did something bad in his Diner's Journal yesterday, and he may not even understand how bad it was.
He wrote a story about the Eater blog's decision to spin its DeathWatch feature into a more positive "Rally Cry" to save a restaurant before it goes under.
He does link to the Eater post, which is good.
However, he then lifts and reprints four full paragraphs from Eater. 210 words. The entire post. Not cool at all. Illegal, one might say.
But then to rub salt in the wound, he basically tells his readers not to click over to Eater: "If you don’t feel like bopping through cyberspace over to the Eater web site, below is the text of the item. ..."
Pretty crappy that the big media company is telling its readers not to click over to a small, legitimate site that makes its living based on clicks. Instead, Bruni just steals the information in its entirety.
So one of the problems for eater is - how loudly do you complain? Because geez, it's nice to get any attention and traffic from the NY Times. However, they're actually entiteled to a whole lot more traffic then they're getting. But if you complain is he (and the paper) less likely to ever mention you again?
Ideally, Bruni should have excerpted a couple lines, and let his readers click through to Eater for the full post. I mean, it's one thing to discourage readers from clicking through if the target site has malicious popups, or if say you're writing a news story about something on the Aryan Nations website, but this isn't that.
And as you may guess, this problem isn't unique to Eater. And to be fair, this is a bit out of character for the NY Times. But I hate that a typical reader (or blogger) reads it in the NY Times and assumes that it's OK. And then they turn around and do the same thing. Same goes for pictures, people just think there's no such thing as copyright anymore or that you need to ask permission if you're going to reprint someone else's work.
Here's a good guide to fair use of photography online.
Earlier: Calling out thieving BuddyTV
'Courtesy of' my cold thieving hands
Bad attribution, British style
More NYT attribution - on a military law blog
On attribution, linking and fairness
Labels: media
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Calling out thieving BuddyTV
I didn't plan on naming names, but Buddy TV didn't have the courtesy to even e-mail an apology, so I'm throwing down. It's among a number of sites that have treated my silly Real World Brooklyn street sightings picture as if it was a freebie handout from the network.
They used the picture fairly big, noted in the text that it was from NewYorkology and added a "courtesy of NewYorkology" credit. Cheekily, no hotlink. Hello, this is the Internet, right? If you're running a website (especially one with a big editorial staff, mega-traffic and you brag about your biz-school pedigrees,) you should probably know that links are a form of online currency. Lifting a copyright image without permission is one thing. Lifting the image and not giving credit and a link to the source is far worse.
I e-mailed Buddy TV this morning -- and their response was to not reply to my e-mail. However, they've taken down the picture and removed the "courtesy of NewYorkology" as well.
I'm sure there's a good legal case to be made that the highest value of the picture was the first eight hours it went live on their site, and that taking it down does not remove the greatest part of the harm done.
In the past two weeks I've had to ask several sites to add attribution to those Real World pictures -- and most have been at least apologetic and have complied. One of the big-gun blogs was slow, whiny and pathetic and at one point hotlinked the "NewYorkology" photo credit to their own internal URL -- and then got snotty with me for not e-mailing the specific author of that specific post, rather than oh, you know, the editor at the site who didn't credit me a week earlier on the same picture.
By comparison - one newspaper site contacted me to buy some of the pictures to use in print, and another newspaper e-mailed asking to reprint them on the paper's blog - with a link and credit, thank you.
Earlier: 'Courtesy of' my cold thieving hands
Labels: brooklyn, media, red hook
'Courtesy of' my cold thieving hands
What I'd like to know is ... who was the first person to post a picture on the Internet w/o asking the owner's permission and slap the words "Photo courtesy of" on it? Because somehow that's become accepted practice, and it's absolutely not courteous. Or fair.
Earlier this summer I started collecting the Internet policies of a bunch of big media companies (including big blog sites.) Oddly, I've yet to find one that's fair to all parties involved. Most don't even address whether/how to link to another website, let alone when it's OK to reuse an image or a chunk of text w/o seeking permission.
It's shocking how many people I've come across who do know it's wrong, but have decided it's a better business practice to publish now, and just take it down later if a cease-and-desist letter ever arrives.
I hope to compose my thoughts in a non jet-lag kinda way in the coming days. I'm hoping to write a best practices policy on this stuff -- mainly for NewYorkology, but it would be nice to see it adopted elsewhere. Hopefully it will help quash the evil "courtesy of" credit.
Labels: media
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Dino's farewell
Dino's dad spells out the very sad news on the Dino's Journey blog:My son, Dino passed away this evening a little after 8PM. My heart hurts to say it and I know yours hurts to hear it. But this was Dino's Journey. ...Oddly, that's how I got the news this morning -- via RSS feed. Coincidentally our Daily Nexus reunion is set for Santa Barbara this Saturday. On the Facebook page for the event, Dino set his RSVP as "maybe attending" though that was several weeks ago before the cancer got crazy. Very sad day.
That's Dino's Facebook profile pix at right.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Magazine readership stats for NYC
As I was throwing one of my consumer magazine on the recycle pile this morning, I was thinking "Is anyone reading this thing anymore? It used to be good."
And then I recalled the ABC website will tell me exactly how many people are reading it.
So before I waste anymore time on this, here are the numbers for a few New York-area magazines:
New Yorker 1,062,018
New York - 429,116
Time Out NY - 146,999
NY Review of Books - 137,450
Time Out NY Kids - 54,277
Hamptons - 38,949
That's average paid circulation for the six months ended Dec. 31, 2007.
If I was really looking to kill some time, would love to see that charted over the past few years and compared with their web stats.
Update: Funny timing, as it looks like the latest numbers are just starting to trickle out. Though if I recall correctly, there's always quite a lag before they publicly hit the ABC site.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bad attribution, British style
Par for the course, the Brit media irritated me throughout our UK trip. My favourite example was on the Banksy unmasked exclusive in the dreaded Mail on Sunday. For those who don't know, his art capers include a 2005 grand tour of NYC where he surreptiously hung his own works on the walls at the Met, MoMA, the American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn Museum -- where they stayed unnoticed for several days.
But the exclusive left the competition in a pinch. The Telegraph picked up the story with poor attribution. Best I can tell, they did no extra reporting for their own 14-graf story, even lifted Mail on Sunday quotes without noting they were from the other paper. (I would prefer something like: "XYZ" he told the Mail on Sunday.)
The lede in the Telegraph identifies the source as "a Sunday newspaper investigation." And then finally, the sixth graf:
But a trail of evidence uncovered by the Mail on Sunday suggests that the truth about his identity may finally have been unearthed.Unsure if the Telegraph linked to the Mail on Sunday as that page has expired and I can only see the Google cache now. But you can guess I'm betting they did not link to their competition.
Labels: media
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
More NYT attribution - on a military law blog
So this one's a mixed bag, but mostly a thumbs up for the New York Times. ...
Hed: In Court Ruling/On Execustions,/A Factual Flaw
Subhed: Blog Points to a Change/Justices Overlooked
To start, give the paper credit for getting "blog" in the subhed. In the third graf comes the first reference to "(a) military law blog" -- though unfortunately the blog is never named in the story.
In the last half-paragraph before the jump (in the print version) it refers to "a post over the weekend on the blog run by Dwight Sullivan, a colonel in the Marine Corps Re- (jump) serve who now works for ..."
In print, this annoyed me: "He titled his blog post "The Supremes Dis the Military Justice System." Still no mention of the blog's name.
But then online, lo and behold, the paper actually hotlinks the title of the blog post to the blog itself.
However, there's no mention of the title of the blog, which is CAAFlog. That's really akin to quoting a Bob Woodward story and saying it was printed in a Washington newspaper.
And my apologies that I'm only picking on the New York Times thus far. There's much more nits to pick online, offline, MSM, blog-wise and in the "wire reports."
Labels: media
Monday, June 30, 2008
On attribution, linking and fairness
I've been thinking a lot about attribution (and linking) lately and how to create a better standard on the web. It's hard to get the hobby blogger to comply to non-existent rules when even the big guys aren't generous themselves.
This story annoys:
Missouri Town Finds Drug Agent Is Really an Impostor.
Currently it's the centerpiece at NYTimes.com.
Here's the fifth graf:
But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper made a few calls about that claim, Gerald’s anti-drug campaign abruptly unraveled after less than five months.Then finally at pararaphs 23 and 24, you find out who really did the legwork:
When Linda Trest, 51, a reporter at The Gasconade County Republican, started hearing complaints from people whose homes had been searched, she began making inquiries about Mr. Jakob.Not that the NYTimes links to them, but the Gasconade County Republican does have a website. And one would think a link would be decent, though I'd say I'd would be far more fair if Trest got credit by name and newspaper at least in graf five.
“Once I got his name, I hit the computer and within an hour I had all the dirt on this guy,” Ms. Trest said.
Likewise, on June 15, the top right of A1 in the NYT was this very long story:
In ’74 Thesis, the Seeds of McCain’s War Views
In paragraph 36 you find out where the Times got the report the story hinges on:
The paper was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and provided to The New York Times by Matt Welch, an author of a book about Mr. McCain.Wow, thanks. So Welch does the FoIA request, and then gives you the report and not only do you bury that in graf 36, but you don't even mention the name of the book, which only came out in October? Ouch.
And of course if you don't name it, it's hard to link to it, huh?
McCain: The Myth of a Maverick.
(Matt by the way, one of my cronies from college, mentions this incident on the Reason blog (where's he's editor) and on his personal site (as it relates to the Los Angeles Times.)
Labels: media
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Bringing back the 'Balkanization'
I'm watching CNN's footage of the mess in Belgrade. Maybe it was inevitable, but still very heartbreaking.
Reminds me of two things in particular from my time living in Europe.
First, there was an extremely annoying train ride in May 1992 I took solo from Athens to Prague. It was epic in the number of things that went wrong, (including a train conductor who pinned me against the window as he triend to stick his tongue down my throat,) but the problems leaving Belgrade had to do with another amorous gentleman. This guy was a Serb, a passenger sitting next to me. Early on, I slipped the fake wedding band on and feigned sleep. That didn't stop him, as he continually jabbed my shoulder to ask questions -- from would I have sex with him since my husband wasn't on the train to "When are the Americans going to come and help us?"
That was a question I certainly wasn't going to answer. The U.S. had just closed our embassy there, and I had been worried I wasn't going to be able to get a transit visa through Serbia (allowing me to get back to Prague in time for the Guns 'N Roses/Faith No More/Soundgarden concert.)
What I was thinking, but wouldn't say, was that 1) The Americans probably aren't coming, and 2) if they do, it will be to bomb your city. (Which eventually the U.S. did.)
His total ignorance of the situation was surprising.
The other thing that comes to mind is well, rather quaint in retrospect. This is a Prognosis story, the English-language newspaper I worked for in Czechoslovakia. I believe we sent three guys down to Slovenia/Croatia in June 1991 to report what turned out to be the very first battle of the decade-long (or ongoing, if you prefer) Balkan War. Prognosis was a monthly publication at the time (only about the fourth or fifth issue of the paper actually,) and we had looong meetings trying to decide on the wording of the banner headline. Basically it came down to "War in the Balkans" but the final debate was weather to go with or without the question mark. Because, we reasoned, the "war" could be over on Wednesday and we'd have a stale paper on the stands for three weeks.
And by the way, the defunct Prognosis now has a Facebook page.
And Google books will let you have a look inside Stacy Sullivan's 2004 book: "Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War"
Labels: media, politics, prague
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Roger Murdoch's blogging
So Tony Pierce helped turn Kareem into a blogger for the LA Times. Can't tell you what a great read he is, go check for yourself.
Just now I was having a look at the comments on a post about exercise tips for guys over 50. They're all really nice, smart. And then, sheer brilliance, this:
I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.Or as my husband put it last week when I told him that Kareem Abdul Jabbar is now blogging for the LA Times: Is that the guy from "Airplane"?
Watch the whole cockpit scene here.
Labels: media
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Metroblogging NYC sponsoring WNYC?
This morning's dollar-for-dollar sponsor on WNYC's pledge drive was ... "Metroblogging NYC."
I'm totally confused. Do they mean this site?
(BTW, the sponsorship means that if you call in and pledge $100 to the public radio station, Metroblogging NYC kicks in another $100.)
Friday, November 02, 2007
Media notes: cronies, buying fire pictures, pretend news
A couple quick things of interest. ...
* My friend Heesun Wee has a new Yahoo interactive up on Korean "comfort" women.
* Another college friend -- Matt Welch's book on John McCain is out. I'm just a little ways in so far. ...
* Was impressed to see that as part of the LA Daily News fire coverage, you can make an online order for any of the pictures from their staff fire photo galleries.
* And this press release from a PR company showed up in my in box. Will be interesting to Google it in a month and see which "news" outlets use it and which ones don't bother to note they're basically running a press release verbatim. It starts this way:
Dear Editor:
We hope you will consider running this bylined article by Emil Grosso of Sebastians (Boston): "A Step by Step Guide to Choosing the Best Caterer for Your Holiday Needs By Emil Grosso, President, Sebastians Café and Catering.
This article focuses on how to select the perfect caterer now that the holidays are around the corner.
The bylined article appears below. ...
A Step by Step Guide to Choosing the Best Caterer for Your Holiday Needs
By Emil Grosso, President, Sebastians Café and Catering
With the holidays just around the corner, well-informed hosts know to book their caterers early to ensure the success of their parties and events. The right caterer can make or break a get together, ...
Labels: books, los angeles, media
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Newspapers, this is how you should do it now
Editors still trying to figure out what do do with the Internet should pay close attention to the goings-on of late at the New York Times. This morning's example:
Labels: media
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
California notes
Some bad California papering news. The LA Daily News is closing two of its suburban bureaus, including the one I used to work at in Santa Clarita, (and wrote the first Newhall Ranch water story.)
Earlier this summer, another paper way back on my resume, the Bakersfield Californian, said it was closing its Sacramento bureau, also for financial reasons.
Rather scary that there's now more media than ever, yet no one wants to pay for the mundane watchdog local journalism that's really at the heart of a democracy.
But in other Bakersfield news, Korn played a free show at the South Street Seaport in NYC yesterday evening. In their pre-show 5-question interview with J&R Music, they give the props to my (and their) hometown. (Though in language mother won't approve of.)
Labels: bakersfield, media
Friday, January 19, 2007
Free press problems, college style
Looks like my old college paper, the Daily Nexus, is having a little problem with the student government unclear on the whole concept of a free press. If only they would just print what we want, like maybe giving us a free weekly column to promote ourselves, we'd be happy to give them the money the students voted to give them.
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