I'm incredibly happy to see that the Media Standards Trust, headed up my Martin Moore, has just launched http://Churnalism.com , a site to help you work out what news stories are just recycled press releases.
Here's an explanatory video at the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/feb/23/churnalism-press-releases-news-video This would an important enough new site for me to send round anyway, but there is another reason I want to celebrate it. The idea for this service came about sitting on the grass in a park in Cambridge in 2006 with Martin, me, Francis Irving and Chris Lightfoot. I can't remember who came up with what parts of the idea, but I do know that where Chris Lightfoot went, terrific, gloriously troublemaking ideas like this tended to follow. Respect to Media Standards Trust for making it happen, and respect to Chris for still keeping us on our toes. I hope I can be this much of a righteous pain in the arse when I'm dead Tom _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
