This cracks me up every time I watch it.
Clare Werbeloff (the CHK CHK BOOM girl) is apparently on Twitter but I’m guessing its fake. I can’t wait to see what happens with this girl. My guess is she’ll be the next host of Today Tonight.
If you haven’t heard the story yet, read more here.
Q: What does Clare Werbeloff use to clean her house? A: a chk chk broom.
Our job is to monitor the centres of power. I think that, in the end, is the best definition of journalism I have heard: to challenge authority – all authority – especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.
– Robert Fisk, The Great War For Civilisation
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Tomorrow (that would be Friday Jan 30) at 10am Sydney time I have Antony Loewenstein, journalist, blogger and author, back on the show to discuss the recent and current events in Gaza.
The brave experiment is this:
With the help of my two filthy assistants (sorry Tim and Jonathan, I’ve been reading Transmetropolitan too much tonight), I’m going to be doing a LIVE TWITSTREAM of the interview. You can follow it on the gdayworld twitter account.
If you want to ask questions of Antony during the interview, or debate one of his points, then send a reply to gdayworld and we’ll feed it into the interview!
I’m going to try to take twinterviewing to a new level.
Thanks to Darryl King from iReckon for seeding the filthy idea into my head today over coffee.
2009 is going to be a bloodbath.
Even if we have the shallowest recession and advertising comes back as it inevitably does, more of it will go to the web. I think that’s it for newspapers. What we saw happen to the Christian Science Monitor [the international paper shifted its daily news operation online] is going to happen three or four dozen times (globally) in the next year. The 500-year-old accident of economics occasioned by the printing press – high upfront cost and filtering happening at the source of publication – is over.
Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian
From Crikey today:
Fairfax CEO David Kirk was sacked by the Board yesterday. While I never thought Kirk was a good choice for the role, it’s hardly his fault that their share price is in the toilet. They’ve been running it into the ground for years. And they *still* aren’t coming to me for advice.
Two years ago, when I was at the PANPA conference, I heard the newly-minted CEO Kirk say that his strategy for Fairfax had 3 priorities:
1. defend and grow the newspapers
2. build strong online businesses
3. become a genuinely integrated digital media company
Name me one significant online move they have made in the last two years?
Also from Crikey:
News Ltd are quietly cutting journalists. I’d hate to be a traditional journalist these days.
