This is fantastic. Daniel
Daniel Schuman Director | Advisory Committee on Transparency<http://transparencycaucus.org/> Policy Counsel | The Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com/> o: 202-742-1520 x 273 | c: 202-713-5795 | @danielschuman <http://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation><http://twitter.com/sunfoundation><http://www.youtube.com/sunlightfoundation><http://sunlightfoundation.com/join/><http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/feed/rss/> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/dschuman%40sunlightfoundation.com >
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