[bracketing the big topics]
Posted in Bullshit Detection on Dec 1st, 2008
In times of crisis it’s ideas that count. That much has just been forcefully argued by Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books. You might think, well, that’s kind of trivial, isn’t it? Indeed, but there are still human resources in the upper echelons of management especially in the media industry that haven’t [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection, Online Publishing on May 19th, 2008
Mit einem herzhaften Gruß nach München: “Not only do small (Long Tail) publishers monetize their content at 3-5 times the rate of the larger publishers in PubMatic’s survey, but they’re improving in the current environment while the big publisher decline. “
(Chris Anderson erklärt die jüngsten Daten des PubMatic AdPrice Index) Wird Zeit, dass sich die Gralshüter [...]
Posted in Asia, Bullshit Detection on Apr 24th, 2008
Sie begreifen es einfach nicht. Die Bürosessel-Korrespondenten bei Spiegel Online können sich einfach nicht vorstellen, dass nicht alle Chinesen entweder unterdrückt oder von ihrer Regierung ferngesteuerte Roboter sind. Und dass ausgerechnet ihre eigene strunzdumme Berichterstattung zu jenem gewaltigen Schub an Nationalismus, jenem Schulterschluss mit dem ‘Regime’ beiträgt, den wir in den letzten Wochen in China [...]
Posted in Asia, Bullshit Detection on Apr 13th, 2008
Just found another voice of reason in the German media subculture: “Spiegelfechter” Jens Berger (I guess the title of his blog is not meant to be addressed against my favorite tabloid magazine/website - at least not primarily… ) has also put some effort in debunking the “chinese killer robots” myth (cf. here). Additionally, he [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection, Media Diary on Apr 9th, 2008
There are few things more disturbing than the taking over of politics by uninformed emotion. One thing that actually is more disturbing is when media are using and inciting such take-over for their own cheap profit. I had hardly caught my breath again after Spiegel Online’s last, mildly put: questionable spin of the ongoing [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection, Media Diary on Mar 20th, 2008
Spiegel Online has earned a reputation for hyping up their articles with blatantly sensationalist and biased headlines. Latest exhibit is an interview with ZEIT’s Asian correspondent Georg Blume who has just had to leave Tibet. Blume gives a very careful and balanced report, warning against the predominant picture of Chinese security forces as a trigger-happy [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection on Nov 9th, 2007
We are living in bleak times. No, I’m not talking about the Bush junta or islamist terrorism, nor about climate change or no more Harry Potter novels. I’m talking about the endemic spread of superstition that has especially gotten hold of the fairer sex in this country. Talking with females in Germany you’ve got a [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection on Oct 11th, 2007
Three males exchanging their expert opinions on female elegance, high heels, emancipation and eating disorders.
Posted in Bullshit Detection on Sep 18th, 2007
TimesSelect is dead. It was a cynical act doomed from the start. With it goes any hope of charging for content online. Content is now and forever free. Jeff Jarvis, HypeMachine Dream on, Mr Jarvis. Content is free only where and exactly as long as the advertising market allows for it to be free (or where there [...]
Posted in Bullshit Detection on Sep 3rd, 2006
Was uns die zeitgenössische Kriegs- und Notstands-Fiction vorführt, ist nicht nur gelegentlich Menschenrechts-Kitsch, der auf das gut zugängliche Empörungspotential der Nicht-Beteiligten spekuliert - es ist in vielen Fällen auch Journalismus-Kitsch. Die Perspektive des mutigen Reporters, der wachen und kritischen Auges durch das Krisengebiet reist und dort die schmutzigen Spuren des immer noch herrschenden Imperialismus oder [...]