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Archive for October, 2004

See Nixon 1952 Political Ad on Corruption and More

Friday, October 15th, 2004

Go back in time, way back to 1952, and see and hear Dick Nixon on the Eisenhower campaign trail say how much he loves federal government workers, but hates corruption.

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 has more than 250 television commercials online. It’s housed at the American Museum of the Moving Image.
The [...]

My Favorite Photos and Participatory Journalism

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion, who is the blogging and PR maven, takes a look at CNET’s $70 million buy out of Webshots and thinks the reason “may lie in participatory journalism.”
And then he shows how they have already used photos from their open source photo gallery to tell a story about iPods.
Look at [...]

Reader Suggests How to Find “Truth” from Blogs

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Seems that newspaper readers who read blogs can figure out which ones to trust. Here is my favorite quote from a longer story based on information gleaned from a readers’ survey to which some 2,500 readers responded nationwide:
J.T. Mims of LaGrange, Ga., said trying to zero in on the credibility of individual bloggers is missing [...]

Readers Reaction Mixed to CBS Memo Debacle

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

Here is the lead to the reaction from some 2,500 newspapers readers about the Dan Rather CBS memo debacle:
Three strong themes emerged when a national group of newspaper editors asked readers whether the CBS memo scandal had affected their faith in election coverage.
- Yes, because CBS violated the principles of good journalism.
- No, because [...]

Informal News Survey Shows Low Blog Readership

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Despite the recent surge in interest regarding online Web logs, four of five readers surveyed say they don’t read Web logs.
That’s one finding from an informal, unscientific survey in which more than 2,500 newspaper readers participated representing almost 40 newspaper nationwide.
According to information supplied by Ken Sands, who is helping coordinate the project [...]

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