You've heard Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks," the insanely catchy tune "built around a whistling hook so addictive that it has helped regenerate an art form long relegated to the realm of dog-walkers, bird-watchers, and the TV-hawked tunes of Roger Whittaker." Guess what? It's a big hit in Beantown! And you know what else? It is responsible for a renaissance of whistling in the hellhole by the harbor.
Some great reporting comes out of the once-dominant ZDNet news network. I just never happen to see it. Instead I see articles that scream "We don't do research." In the ZDNet article "How will Yahoo address social networking?" writer Larry Dignan suggests several sites that the company could buy, such as Facebook, Friendster ... or Orkut. Of course, there's not much chance Google would sell Orkut, a social network created by the Google employee shown here, to its competitor.
Why is the Boston Globe such a drag on New York Times Company earnings? Well: The rapid decline of print readers, shifts in regional demographics, the proliferation of alternate outlets from which information can be obtained. Also, probably stories like this one, about the kids today and their crazy low-hanging pants.
The Times breaks some stunning new ground in the field of news you can use today:
Many hardworking newspeople face the risk of serious injury—or worse!—in the line of duty. Take Westchester-living Medill graduate Arnold Diaz, your favorite Fox 5 Senior Investigative Correspondent. The violence visited upon our local courageous consumer reporter is so stunning we had to share it with you. Shame, shame, shame. Shame on all of us.
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Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, end of the week, poll up later in the day. This morning's Moment comes from A.O. Scott's review of the Eddie Murphy, uh, picture Norbit. We see what he's trying to say, but the final line seems a bit tossed off:
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Over the weekend, the LA Times hosed the NY Times with the big news that web-loving bald daddy-type Jeff Zucker would be promoted to chief exec of NBC Universal. AP and Reuters were happy to run follow stories, crediting the LAT's Meg James.
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, the polls have closed, and the winner is Eric Shawn, who wins a copy of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Today's Moment comes from the Quad-City Times. The whole thing is worth reading - did you know that some companies allow you to write bad words on those Valentine's Day candy hearts? - but the end is so terrific one can only hope the writer is completely serious.
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Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. We rarely read the auto pages of the Times because one of the main joys of living in town is not needing to care about cars. But we were directed to this recent review of the Lexus ES 350 and we have to admit that we never realized how many gems the section contains. Your Moment:
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address.Today's Moment comes from a Joseph Epstein essay in the Wall Street Journal. Joe's a little upset that everybody's talking about the whole "black coaches in the Super Bowll" thing. Why, he wonders, do they have to dwell on the blackness? ("Lovie Smith, the Bears coach, and Tony Dungy, the Colts coach, are both African-Americans, and this will mark the first time that an African-American coach has brought his team to a Super Bowl. That there would be two African-American coaches with teams playing against each other was too big a journalistic bonanza to ignore.") We're going to forget about the legacy of racism that kept the keys to the head office in white hands for so long that even now there are a paltry number of black head coaches and just focus on the question at hand: How does Epstein view Dungy and Smith if not through a racial prism?
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment concerns Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner who was euthanized yesterday. The Rocky Mountain News' Bernie Lincicome gives a fond look back ("We can blame Ben Roethlisberger for bad judgment, but we can only weep for Barbaro."). The best bit comes in the middle:
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, the polls have closed, and your winner, as expected, is the Washington state college kid whose beard got orgasmed on. He wins a position as the Voice's new Press Clips columnist. After the jump, today's Moment. Which is kind of unbelievable.
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