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Category Archives: Blogging
Reporting Shades Of Truth
From LATimes.com: How should media organizations deal with assertions by public figures that they know or strongly suspect to be deceptive? All this week, blogger Luke Ford and KTLA reporter Eric Spillman debate ethics, credibility and high-profile snafus in the … Continue reading
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Cheeky Blog’s Jewish Obsession Strikes a Funny Bone of Contention
Gabriel Sanders writes: For regular Gawker readers, Balk’s posts were nothing out of the ordinary — studiously irreverent, rich with Jewish-themed cracks and sheathed in a layer of irony so thick that any and all criticism comes off sounding daft, … Continue reading
An Anti-Semitic Slur or a Mere Misunderstanding?
Rebecca Honig Friedman blogs: Blogger Yisrael Medad of My Right Word got himself into a (threatened) legal tiff with the Wonkette blog, over a post in which Medad questions whether a Wonkette post about one Rudy “Jew-liani” and the “Jew … Continue reading
Bloggers take aim at city governments — and hit home
From The Los Angeles Times: These muckraking bloggers say they have stepped in to fill the government watchdog vacuum. Some are anonymous, others are scurrilous and, on occasion, possibly libelous. And to local politicians, most are a royal pain in … Continue reading
T.J. Simers Is No Fan Of Blogs
The Los Angeles Times columnist was interviewed by the Daily Bruin: DB: Do you follow sports blogs? Simers: Are you kidding me? Why would I follow a sports blog? That’s some guy in his basement who has never interviewed an … Continue reading
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Bush Vs. Bloggers
Glenn Reynolds blogs: The political press can run with stories about bloggers being in full revolt over immigration, but it’s not really a case of bloggers vs. the Administration. Rather, it’s a case — like Harriet Miers, Dubai Ports, PorkBusters, … Continue reading
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Rules Of The Blogosphere
Michael Weiss posts on Jewcy.com: I’ve been covering the blogosphere for Slate for almost two years. In that time, I’ve formulated two laws which further immersion into the messy world of unvarnished opinion has done nothing to overturn: Weiss’s 1st … Continue reading
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Bais Yaakov Know-It-All or Fresh New Orthodox Voice?
You decide about Evasnotes.blogspot.com, my favorite new blog.
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Attacking Web 2.0
Andrew Keen blogs: Five excellent articles about the manifold hazards of citizen media have appeared in the last few days: Bobby Johnson’s shocking revelation that abusive online images of children have quadrupled over the last three years. Jonathan Freedland’s withering … Continue reading
Rabbi Yitzhock Adlerstein Says We Shouldn’t Read Blogs That Traffic In Personal Destruction
Every time I see Rav Adlerstein, I am mortified because 16 years ago I was writing him heartfelt letters about how I wanted to live for God. Now look at me. I snuck into Helkeinu Wednesday night and taped Rabbi … Continue reading
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