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Pick of the Orchard 5.31.06
Robin Williams: Media-Trained
A while back, we showed you footage from David Spade’s Showbiz Show demonstrating that those conversations celebs have on talk shows are highly rehearsed — often to the word. The previous example featured Vin Diesel.
This time, Spade shows that even a celeb with a reputation for spontaneity, like Robin Williams, carefully plans what he’s going to say. Watch the video.
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Question: Is Media Orchard Really That Obnoxious and Self-Serving? Answer: Sadly, Yes
We’re embarrassed to be doing this — really. But we’re afraid we have no choice.
After watching Technorati bat about .300 in noticing links recently (good in baseball, bad for “the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs”), we’ve decided to begin running a monthly test of Technorati’s link recognition capabilities.
Here’s how it will work (this is the obnoxious and self-serving part):
Once a month, we will implore everyone who reads this blog to link to a specific post. Then, after 24 hours, we will report which blogs have linked, and what percentage of these were picked up by Technorati. By doing this once a month over the next, say, six months, we hope to get a better sense of whether Technorati’s capabilities are improving, deteriorating or remaining steady during the test period.
Is this scientific? Not exactly — but then again, we’re not exactly investigating the melting of the ice caps here, either.
OK, so here we go: Please link to this post.
We’ll report back tomorrow on Technorati’s success rate.
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Today’s Practical Journalism Tip: If You’re Going to Fabricate an Interview, Don’t Do It With a Real Local Official
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
A Times-Dispatch article published May 17 about the reaction in Herndon to President Bush’s speech on immigration reported a fabricated interview …
Northern Virginia bureau reporter Paul Bradley did not interview Bill Threlkeld, site director for Project Hope and Harmony, as reported in the article…
Bradley was dismissed yesterday as a Times-Dispatch employee.
That’s the equivalent of the burglar who gets stuck in the chimney.
In Our Next Life, We Want to Be a Tabloid Reporter
OK, OK…no lining up to say, “You already are one” will be necessary.
Seriously, though: Facts are such a hassle.
From the U.K.’s Daily Mirror:
Poor Mirror. Lo how the mighty have fallen.