links for 2008-07-31
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It was the second time that a congressional attempt to protect children from sexually explicit websites has failed to survive constitutional scrutiny.
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The actual journalists now asked to produce this new brand of hyperlocal coverage are often remarkably ill-prepared to do so.
Moderation guidelines for story comments: You like?
So, I go away for 12 days and a huge debate breaks out in the blogosphere about story comments, sparked by a curmudgeonly post on Gawker.com and Bob Garfield’s “On the Media” discussion.
It has been fascinating reading — particularly because we are literally days away from (finally) launching story comments on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s web site, STLtoday.com.
I am drafting guidelines for the people who will help us moderate story comments — which includes some of the newsroom aides. I would value any insights about them. See below for more.
This week has been a series of brown-bag conversations with reporters, editors, designers, photographs and newsroom aides to explain what we’re doing and why. It’s been refreshing to know that at least a few of the people who have been to these sessions have also followed some of the discussion in the blogs. Read more
Soul-selling: Another way newspapers can be irrelevant
Today is the last day of my vacation. I’m taking the kids to see Hancock. It happened to be easier to pick up the newspaper to check the movie times. But, alas…
Many months ago, the newspaper decided to make movie listings a paid feature, charging the chains to put their movie times in the index. Not long ago, AMC Theatres decided not to participate. So the closest theater to my house isn’t in there. No movie times. Less relevant.
Fortunately, we still have them on our site.
Gone fishin’ (and I mean that figuratively)
Getting ready for Margarita Night, for Crab House Night, for Pasta Night, for Boardwalk Night — and a lot of beach time. Also planning to read David Sedaris’ new book, “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” and Tom Brokaw’s “Boom.” See ya later.
links for 2008-07-16
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Do we really want to trust our democracy to emasculated newspaper journalism, plus TV and radio news?
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Reporters and editors at the New York Times have been told to keep their political affiliations offline and out of sight in the build up to the US presidential election.
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Mr. Culberson was responding to a proposal by Representative Michael E. Capuano, chairman of the franking committee, that would impose new guidelines on legislators who post videos on external Web sites like YouTube.
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There are further (and more radical) ideas in the “additional suggestions” section of the report, and a few more in the “minority suggestions” section.
Kurt's Tweets- Why is this not a national story? Maybe I missed it. Appalling. Disabled woman was tortured and held as a sex slave http://ow.ly/2CiAq
- Bravo. RT @pwthornton: "Banning unsigned online comments undermines the media’s role as a forum for debate.” http://bit.ly/bmZsOn
- I would like to just take the two steps forward and skip the one step back. How about that? Would that be OK?
- Still seeking talented journalists to run #Patch sites in two south St. Louis County communities. Know anyone? http://ow.ly/2Axnv
- Waiting for a listings collector to give her more #Patch marketing cards. The work never stops.