On 23 Feb , at 18:44:48, Tom Steinberg 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 >
It is excellent. I wonder though, wouldn't it be greatly helped if it had feeds from PRnewswire and the others built in? Stef > 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/stefan%40whitelabel.org -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) +254 710 103500 (KE) +234 816 5706119 (NG) Where am I?: http://is.gd/uu4RUc smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ 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
