Poison pill for News
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NEWS Corporation yesterday invoked a poison pill defence mechanism in an effort to stymie any hostile ambitions that John Malone might have for the company.
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Pick a date, any date Packing as many buzzwords as possible into a single news announcement might prove you're "on message" but won't disguise the fact your strategy lags every major player in town.â¦
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In a move designed to fortify itself a potential hostile takeovers, News Corp. adopted a &quot;poison pill&quot; shareholder rights plan.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested.    This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog  (which btw is news in of itself).
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Also: Your iris as photo watermark. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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By FERGUS SHEPPARD  IN AMERICA it is dubbed "the newspaper killer". Craigslist, a website that offers classified listings mostly for free, is routinely cited as the worst-case example of new media sucking advertising revenues from the world of print.
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By John Hughes Deseret Morning News  In the past few days, we've been subjected to a torrent of media mush.  To be fair, serious newspapers have either ignored it or recorded it briefly in the back pages.
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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I put mainstream media in the same league with comic books. The goal of the media is to sell. When it comes to any message coming from the media, caveat emptor.
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The BBC is famous for its journalism. Now it's making headlines for all the wrong reasons
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Here's a zip archive containing the source of the last 10 years of Scripting News. Since Scripting News existed before blogs were invented, I went ahead and included the stuff that I blogged before there were blogs. I hope this isn't too confusing!  "cheesecake" PS: Scott Karp asks if blogs can do journalism. Try this question. Can journalists do journalism? At best they seem to be able to copy each other, so mistakes propogate.  We've made so many accomplishments, both before and after the coining of the term, Karp for example starts with VIgnette. In 1997 if you told someone the functions of Vignette could be provided to millions of people virtually for free they wouldn't have believed you. (This is factual btw, I did, and wasn't believed.)  They also thought syndication would be done by the big publishing companies, something unweildy called ICE. We thought it should be simpler so that anyone could support it on both ends, and we won. The journalists have no record of this probably because they believed the big companies behind ICE and ignored the low-tech stuff. Jorn Barger used my software to do his "web log" -- why isn't that part of the story? Well it isn't if all you think is important is the choosing of the name.
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Bloggers force CBS News to admit to a serious mistake, and journalists recoil from the thought of so much scrutiny of their work. But isn't this exactly what we need to get better-quality news? Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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Also: UN warning on e-waste 'mountain.' Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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