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Roy Greenslade: Making sense of news in the information age

A long and detailed article in the latest Columbia Journalism Review, Overload!Journalism's battle for relevance in an age of too much information, contains all manner of insights. Examples:"The information age is defined by output: we produce far more information than we can possibly manage...

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guardian...uk Media — Before yesterday

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Stephen H. Baum: McCain's Concession Speech Question

John McCain's otherwise gracious concession speech included a line to the effect of "I don't know what more we could have done to have a winning campaign." Here is food for thought for Senator McCain and the Republicans who must now make a choice between collaborating to make democracy work vs. acti ...

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HuffingtonPost.com — November 07

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Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 11-02-08: In Which the Guesswork Pageant Flutters to an End

Originally published on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review. Halloween was over, but revelers were still in costume Sunday morning. Pundits-in-chief appeared confident that they had served the American people well during their extended, peculiar process of choosing a global ...

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HuffingtonPost.com — November 03

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Nicole Richie's Jewelry Line Is Cute, Cheap [Rag Trade]

Nicole Richie's cheap, chunky jewelry line is actually pretty get-behind-able. [FabSugar] PETA protesters continue the conversation by appearing at an Olsen Twins book signing with the placard: "Trollsens: UR Hags From Hell." [New York Magazine] Kate Moss is going to co-chair the Metrop...

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Jezebel — October 29

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Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 10-26-08: In Which Weariness Strikes

Originally published on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review. The campaign has lasted as long as a rhinoceros stays pregnant, but at the end, for both candidates, will come delivery if not deliverance. Ten days before that blessed day arrives, though, the campaign's duration ...

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HuffingtonPost.com — October 27

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Green journos: scientific and idealistic and ignorant and cootie-covered

By David RobertsMarketWatch's Jon Friedman pens a truly incoherent and dunderheaded attack on environmental journalists. Look at this mess, taken from the middle of the piece: Beyond sticking to a few catch-phrases and earnestly spouting a do-good philosophy gleaned from Al Gore's movie, &quo...

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Gristmill — October 20