Skip to primary content

Archive for August, 2005

Werner Herzog Declaration on Facts vs. Truth

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

While reading a New York Times review about German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, I was taken by this quote that is at his website:
“By dint of declaration the so-called cinéma vérité is devoid of vérité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.”
When I tracked down the quote, I found his [...]

The Civic and Citizen Interest Group name change

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

At the recent AEJMC convention I proposed that the AEJMC’s Civic Journalism Interest Group take on a name change. Now members of the interest group will decide if they want to call it the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Here is my argument (And then Cole Campbell’s almost instant response):
From the very beginning, civic [...]

Taking a Dive into Citizen Journalism

Friday, August 19th, 2005

The New York Times has an article on swimmingholes.info, a citizen produced site for anyone who wants to discover the joys of taking a leap into more than 750 swimming holes described in detail.
On a related subject, a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution went off to try some 100 foods listed on an Alabama [...]

Still don’t get podcasting? Then Read This Primer

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Here is a quick primer on podcasting.
And there is more here at Steve Rubel’s site.

Beam My News Down, Scotty

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Here is a quote I love from New York Times editor Bill Keller in an Online Journalism Review story about the Times merging its print and web operations:
This has the full support of everyone in senior management at the Times Company and particularly of Arthur Sulzberger. I remember in my interview with him, back [...]

Sidelines

PJNet.org