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Chat with me
Apr 6th
I’ve been a real busy guy lately, just barely able to eke out a forgettable quote every now and again. So I had myself cloned, that you might have the pleasure of chatting with me at any time. However, they cloned me on a bad day, and I’m not too proud of the personality they pulled.
Newsroom Know-how
Apr 5th
“If the newsroom culture had truly been one of fiduciary smarts, “Craigslist” would have been started by a news organization, and cloned across the country within two years.”
- Ike Pigott
Fairness
Apr 4th
“Life is not fair… but we must all proceed with the faith that over the course of all our lives, it will be more or less equally unfair to all of us.”
Consolidation
Mar 14th
One of the downsides of media consolidation is the propensity of a small error to be magnified. Like this one, for example, from the Nashville Tennessean:
Plan for emergenies
Spring tornado season a good time to make sure you and your family know what to do
Don’t blame staff writer Vivi Hoang. Editors slap the headlines on the stories, and several sets of eyeballs passed over that typo. Unfortunately, because of media consolidation, no one at the Dickson Herald, Ashland City Times, nor Fairview Observer caught it either. Not that they could change it if they wanted to.
I blame Tennessee for being landlocked. They’re not used to have a C around.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, journalism, Tennessean[/tags]
Juggling Act
Mar 2nd
Oscar Night
Feb 25th
“I didn’t know he died.”
“I didn’t know he died either.”
“I thought he was already dead.”
“No, not him!”
“I thought she died a long time ago!”
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, Oscars, Academy Awards[/tags]
