Category: Mainstream Media

Scandal naming convention moves from something-gate to hash-initials

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I had started to write a link to Alan Rusbridger’s account of The Guardian’s pursuit of the the whole #notw issue… Early in 2009 there had been a similar moment. He’d discovered that James Murdoch, the son and heir of the most powerful private news-media company on earth, had done a secret deal to pay more than $1 million to cover up evidence of criminal behaviour within the company. Interested? …when something struck me. For as long as I can remember, scandals, especially political ones, have always been something-gate, after the Watergate Building in DC. I’m sure the older hacks

Adding adverts in the copy ‘n’ paste of Newspaper websites

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With the new design of this site (yes, after two weeks it is still ‘new’ given the years and years there’s been a blog at this URL) there’s a lot more quoting of stories around the web, and in the last post, I took a snippet from The Mirror newspaper website. And was offered a voucher to go camping for 95p! I’m used to seeing sites embed a “read more at[ URL]” line of text after copying text from a site – it’s actually quite handy as I need to grab the URL for the plug-in that alters the permalinks

This sounds like a job for Toby Ziegler

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[Rupert Murdoch]  has drafted in Steven Rubenstein… to offer advice on how best to present himself during the hearing on Tuesday… The Observer understands there are deep concerns at News Corporation that Murdoch and his son will come across as having secrets to hide on Tuesday. And the politicians can call on Aaron Sorkin so they look their best when grandstanding on Tuesday.