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Mike Manuel of Media Guerrilla notes that journalists nearly always blame PR departments/agencies when their employers/clients get embarrassed by the blogosphere. It should be an obvious point by now, but it’s worth repeating: we own this space.
There’s even a name for it, folks: Blog Relations. Get on top of it — or get buried by it.
Technorati tags: Journalism, PR, Public Relations, Marketing
I’m not big on conspiracy theories (I live in Dallas and still believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone), but this one’s fun so I thought I’d share it.
Conservative blog-goddess Michelle Malkin and others suspect that USA Today intentionally altered an AP photo of Condoleezza Rice to make her look demonic.
See the original AP photo at top, and what USA Today published beneath it.
After the blogger uproar, USA Today removed the image from its Web site. “USAToday.com, like other news organizations, often adjusts photos for sharpness and brightness to optimize appearance,” a spokesman told Editor & Publisher.
Personally, I think it was unintentional. And I say this even though I can offer the following relevant anecdote:
In college, a friend of mine ran for student council. During the campaign, he coaxed a photographer at the school paper into running an unflattering picture of his opponent. He ended up winning the race.
So I know shenanigans can happen; I just don’t think they happened here.
(Via Romenesko.)
I’m not big on conspiracy theories (I live in Dallas and still believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone), but this one’s fun so I thought I’d share it.
Conservative blog-goddess Michelle Malkin and others suspect that USA Today intentionally altered an AP photo of Condoleezza Rice to make her look demonic.
See the original AP photo at top, and what USA Today published beneath it.
After the blogger uproar, USA Today removed the image from its Web site. “USAToday.com, like other news organizations, often adjusts photos for sharpness and brightness to optimize appearance,” a spokesman told Editor & Publisher.
Personally, I think it was unintentional. And I say this even though I can offer the following relevant anecdote:
In college, a friend of mine ran for student council. During the campaign, he coaxed a photographer at the school paper into running an unflattering picture of his opponent. He ended up winning the race.
So I know shenanigans can happen; I just don’t think they happened here.
(Via Romenesko.)
Perhaps someone can illuminate.
According to the Yahoo! Buzz Index, the top search among musical acts is Britney Spears, followed by Black Eyed Peas, Green Day and other well-known performers.
But according to Technorati — which bills itself as “the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs” and now tracks more than 20 million blogs – interests are a little different in the blog world.
Britney rarely, if ever, ranks in the top Technorati searches. In fact, Technorati’s consistent winner among musical acts, at least for the past several days, is a duo most people have never heard of: Prussian Blue.
Prussian Blue — the Olsen-twin lookalikes who have a new album out, and also happen to espouse “racialist” views. Prussian Blue was the topic of a segment on ABC’s Primetime recently, but otherwise has been a blip on the musical radar.
I guess the simple explanation is that blogs are more political and opinionated in nature, and people have stronger views on Prussian Blue than Britney Spears. (As you would expect, most blogs condemn the pair, as you can read here, here, here and here.)
Still, I’m fascinated by the disparity.
Technorati tags: Prussian Blue, SEO, Marketing
Top 10 Sources for Media News
Media Orchard stumbled upon an interesting site called Top 10 Sources, which ranks and publishes what it considers the top newsfeeds in various categories.
Here’s the site’s Top 10 in the “media” category:
New Media Musings
Joi Ito’s Moblog
Romenesko
E-Media Tidbits
Micro Persuasion
BuzzMachine
CyberJournalist.net
I Want Media
The New York Times
paidContent.org
(Media Orchard would like to point out that we do occasionally publish rankings that don’t actually include Media Orchard. But we’re bitter about it.)
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