Monday Download
Dashboard gives us the downlow on the downloads. And promises to point us to some interesting free music going forward.
The Wash Post's Howard Kurtz devotes some more of his media column to analysis of the clusterf*** that was the reporting at the scene of the West Virginia mining disaster. First the 12 miners are reported miraculously alive...then hours later turns out they weren't. As Kurtz writes, "While the mining company's refusal to correct the misinformation for hours is inexplicable, the situation was exacerbated by the journalistic reluctance to say the facts are unconfirmed and we just don't know. Experienced journalists should have understood that early, fragmentary information in times of crisis is often wrong." He goes on to question before-the-fact reporting of mining safety.
More journalistic navel gazing on what went wrong with the miner coverage comes courtesy of the always useful Poynter Institute and some of its faculty. Writes Aly Colon, "Even radio, TV and Web sites, with their immediacy, can get the news wrong. What matters is how they go about getting it right."
Get those pics (and hope he's not wearing a beret). The Washington Times says some in the Bush Administration are trying to quickly round up any and all photos of the president with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges last week.
Sure he was runner-up before, but is there any doubt now who the most offensive player in the ACC is errr...I mean offensive player of the year. Hopefully, Marcus Vick will clean up his act and be successful because despite what Charles Barkley famously said once, professional athletes are role models to many young people and Vick now is saddled with some pretty heavy baggage.
UPDATE: And Mr. Vick's baggage just got a bit heavier. Monday he's arrested for pulling a gun on some teens. Good lord. Looks like he's trying to Maurice Clarett himself into another classic story of wasted potential. Thanks for the heads up Paul.
The Wash Post's Howard Kurtz devotes some more of his media column to analysis of the clusterf*** that was the reporting at the scene of the West Virginia mining disaster. First the 12 miners are reported miraculously alive...then hours later turns out they weren't. As Kurtz writes, "While the mining company's refusal to correct the misinformation for hours is inexplicable, the situation was exacerbated by the journalistic reluctance to say the facts are unconfirmed and we just don't know. Experienced journalists should have understood that early, fragmentary information in times of crisis is often wrong." He goes on to question before-the-fact reporting of mining safety.
More journalistic navel gazing on what went wrong with the miner coverage comes courtesy of the always useful Poynter Institute and some of its faculty. Writes Aly Colon, "Even radio, TV and Web sites, with their immediacy, can get the news wrong. What matters is how they go about getting it right."
Get those pics (and hope he's not wearing a beret). The Washington Times says some in the Bush Administration are trying to quickly round up any and all photos of the president with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges last week.
Sure he was runner-up before, but is there any doubt now who the most offensive player in the ACC is errr...I mean offensive player of the year. Hopefully, Marcus Vick will clean up his act and be successful because despite what Charles Barkley famously said once, professional athletes are role models to many young people and Vick now is saddled with some pretty heavy baggage.
UPDATE: And Mr. Vick's baggage just got a bit heavier. Monday he's arrested for pulling a gun on some teens. Good lord. Looks like he's trying to Maurice Clarett himself into another classic story of wasted potential. Thanks for the heads up Paul.
posted by JP at 8:40 AM
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UUhhhh...unless cleaning up his act includes pulling a gun on teenagers. Maybe he can mooch off of his older brother for the next 65 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_t25_vick_arrested;_ylt=AiCMXhI.q_fKNtrG5h0J6x0DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Oh, for the days when the starting lineup of the FSU "Criminoles" provided an interesting read. Maybe that's a thing of the past, like their dominance of ACC football.
Yes, Free Shoes University is not the titan it once was.
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