Cracking post over on the Press Gazette Axe Grinder blog this week: Top 10… Journalists with Facebook groups dedicated to them.
In first place, a personal favourite, Jon Snow (left). At number seven, Piers “I’m a complete tosser but Dave won’t say anything TOO bad about me because he doesn’t want to ruin any future career paths” Morgan with the best group: “I fucking hate Piers Morgan”.
Which you can join here.
In other less-fun news, this post by Roy Greenslade gives a fairly solid voice of reason over the Daily Mirror’s bomb story that went completely wrong.
A lot of commentators have said the journalists should not be prosecuted. They were acting in the public interest, supposedly. It’s a tough one. One comment on the Greenslade blog makes the point that if there are doctors and pilots involved with terrorism groups then of course, there could be journalists too. Making a journalist exempt from the terrorism act is giving the go ahead to them all.
What should happen is a government body is informed that a journalist will be doing this, so that if he is caught, everyone can get a pat on the back safe in the knowledge it was just a bit of role-play and they all did well.
Only problem with that is that I wouldn’t trust the body not to tell the security forces responsible in order to save face. But then we have to keep them on their toes.
Tough one.
One more thing: All these blogs are meant to be pretty good. I haven’t got round to reading them yet — apart from Mindy McAdams’ — but I will do.
Oh, and another thing (sorry). I’m in ‘talks’ (ok, I sent an email and they said maybe) with our university radio station about setting up a podcast network to go with the newspaper I founded last year. This would, if I’m not mistaken, make us the first university in the UK (world?!) to have it’s own podcast website produced by students. Any advice?
Great idea with the podcasts – have heard that being thrown about – but are you sure other uni’s aren’t already doing it…I have a feeling that some universities with RSL’s might have snippets online to view as podcasts.
Perhaps we’d be the only university with a ‘current/more up-to-date’ podcast.
Only saying this because I know a lot of the Siren online team podcasted their work and I don’t think idea was unique – it worked as a basic listen again feature linked to their Myspace page.