MetaTalk posts tagged with journalism

Reusing Ask MeFi Q&A in a book

joeclark — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:59:47 -0800

Tom Vanderbilt reuses Ask MetaFilter question and answers in his book Traffic Tom Vanderbilt is apparently MeFi user jgballard. He posted a question in 2005 about how people merge in traffic lanes. He then excerpted some of the answers in his 2008 book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (official site). Check pp. 4–5, where he writes “I posted an anonymous inquiry on Ask MetaFilter, a Web site one can visit to ask random questions and tap into the ‘hive mind’ of an anonyous audience of overeducated and overopinionated geeks.” MeFi users muckster is quoted (not by name). I would say Vanderbilt has trouble with the definition of “anonymous,” and also a bit more trouble with attribution. Journalists trolling for material should be up front about what they’re doing.

Experimental news site

tellurian — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:41:54 -0800

MetaFilter Journalists. [Opinion Content: Moderate. Sentiment: Mostly Neutral]

Those meddling kids!

brain cloud — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:07:17 -0800

Mefi better journalists than Plum Sykes. Intrepid original-question-asker flying saucer and askme-answerer veronica sawyer get to the bottom of the origins of the mysterious word "harrogatha."

journalism, credibility, and marketing meet and go kaboom

angrybeaver — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:39:27 -0800

Does the LA Times lose credibility when they change their entire site for a new movie?

Fratboy Journalism

namespan — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:37:27 -0800

"This entire genre of editorials are so embarassing: the guy who won't stand for it anymore and finally tells it like it is, which inevitably means high-fiving his readers and foaming with vitriolic bigotry.... I propose the name 'Fratboy Journalism.' "

Breaking news on Mefi

symphonik — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:23:13 -0800

So, I think that MeFi was the first to break the bit about racist looting captions. So why then do Wonkette and Flickr users get to pretend they broke the story? There are others, it's now quite the little hot Internet topic. But where's the MeFi love?

Sloppy journalists fall for fake news

PenDevil — Wed, 26 May 2004 10:43:14 -0800

Did Rumsfeld ban cameraphones in Iraq?(Follow up to this thread) Seems sloppy journalists fell for fake news from the web. Again.

Metafilter observations presented at 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism

thatwhichfalls — Thu, 13 May 2004 07:38:42 -0800

When the Audience is the Producer: The Art of the Collaborative Weblog (pdf), a presentation at the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism by UT journalism grad student Lou Rutigliano has things to say about Metafilter. [more inside]

Salon's feature on Perverted Justices quotes Metafilter comments

rcade — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:36:34 -0800

Salon's feature on the porn chat-room vigilante site Perverted Justice includes the lazy journalist's best friend: non-attributed man on the street quotes from MetaFilter.

sub quality journalistic demagogues

four panels — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:40:03 -0800

So, Newsmax before News week? I tend to find Newsmax, CommonDreams, YellowTimes, BushWatch all sub quality journalistic demagogues. A question of policy.

'Blogging Code of Ethics'

RobertLoch — Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:44:02 -0800

John Hiler has written a good piece discussing blogging and journalism. At the conclusion he outlines a ' Blogging Code of Ethics' which I think is meant to be a work in progress. Whilst I understand his point, surely there are only a very few weblog that actually have the level of impact and/or respect, for such a thing to be relevent? I don't know, is a 'Blogging Code of Ethics' really necessary? If you think it is, is there anything you would add/subtract from his list?

Kuro5hin dogs blogs

owillis — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:06:59 -0800

The utter failure of weblogs as journalism.

The post on CNN's graphic with Switzerland in the wrong place is dumb

skallas — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:01:19 -0800

Lets discuss a typo sent to someone as an email attachment. Post 11138

Online articles made crappier by lack of reprinted photos

Mo Nickels — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:52:48 -0800

I don't know where else to put this: If you work for a major media company that is repurposing analog content into the digital media, then please pass a note to your people that a) when a caption says "Left, Joe Blow" in analog form, it might need editing in digital form, particularly as considering how Joe may now be to the right, top or bottom of the caption, or Joe's picture may not be there at all, leading to b) Please, if you feel the need to print stories like "Calvin Klein was hit with a pie, as shown in the picture above" please show the picture above. Very frustrating. I know you old media people are too cheap to pay photographers that little bit extra to use their pictures online, too, but it makes no sense to then go ahead and pay the writer for a story that is near useless without the photo.