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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Both sides of the political spectrum twist the truth in their media briefs, according to a website that's tracking the spin. The system of half truths make it hard for ordinary folks to become informed.
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Is it time to turn down the volume on TV news? A handful of developments this fall suggest a brewing backlash against opinionated news, most personified by those cable segments that set people up to argue political points, or outshout each other.
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Yesterday's piece, lightly edited, on the Huffington Post. http://x98.us/jz  I think it looks pretty good over there!
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Rupert Murdoch moved swiftly yesterday to head off any potential threat from his fellow media tycoon John Malone by setting up a &quot;poison pill&quot; defence for News Corporation against any attempted takeover.
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John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, which has almost doubled its voting stake in News Corp, yesterday described the poison pill Rupert Murdoch&#39;s
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TRUTH IN advertising should extend to political advertisements aired over the public airways. The so-called facts presented in political advertisements, even statements masquerading as opinion, should be held
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Following the news can really get you bruised.
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Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing a great evangelical piece about the power of rivers. The stream is turning into a current, and soon really will be a river.  It&#185;s so weird to see rivers show up in Facebook, and Twitter is just a big river of all the people you&#185;re following. The idea is actually a descendent of the teletype terminals that used to be in the movies (and for all I know in actual newsrooms). The news would be printed on scrolls of paper, and when a new story would come in it would push all the older stories onto the floor. You could catch up on the news by scrolling back through the news. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn did it. We&#185;ll all be doing it soon enough. And it really helps to get other people singing the song, esp from within the hallowed halls of Harvard. The more attention we get focused on it, the more other developers will tune in. And what may not be so clear from the narrative is that this project got its start from a meeting I had with some technical people at the Times last week in NY. Like most organizations, it's not of one mind, there are people who are scared of what comes next but there are others who know that the Times has to change. By opening up their internal data to me, all kinds of interesting stuff can happen. We've been here before. The Times are the unsung heroes of RSS, without them it never would have solidified, with the publishing industry falling in behind the Times. It was this consensus that created critical mass for RSS 2.0 in 2002 and 2003. I really hope some of this stuff feeds back into the Times support of RSS. And as you have seen, there are now lots of new opportunities in user interface for news. This is what I do, when I'm in my "flow" -- we're there now again, with a new toy to build and then play with, every day.  Betsy Devine: "Dave Winer has been improving the New York Times for as long as I&#185;ve known him." Phil Windley: "With more sources, who are themselves continuously updating, the keyword river could be as dynamic as you&#185;d want it to be."
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Like it or not, ads are coming to RSS. Sending information only to those who want it might be a way to keep subscribers from rioting. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Also: Flirting, online and off. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Time to put on those tin foil hats again
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If it weren't all so deadly serious, one could dismiss the acres of news coverage on Sir Mark Thatcher's arrest on coup plot charges in South Africa this week as merely a product of the annual news-starved ...
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Reporters who tire of searching for real news at New York&#39;s Republican National Convention next week -- or who just want a safe haven from their editors -- can
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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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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Actual Expert Too Boring for TV! Lazy Scientists Discover New Cable Channel! TV-News Graphics Guy Gives Weatherman On-Air Surprise! Soon, you can have all the fake broadcast news you want from theonion.com. By Sonja Zjawinski.