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The War of Words
Oh, this is just too wonderfully funny. Steve Yelvington’s blog drew my attention to “The War of the Words, The Story of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders,” a Ken Burns style parody of the role of bloggers in the War on Terror. It’s creator, Paul H. Henry, makes great use of the medium and one of…
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Lucky Sevens
Bob Stepno says knoxnews is 77th on “Top 100 U.S. newspaper web sites” at newsknife.com, but we’re not sure what that means as he discovers some weirdness with the list. Interestingly, the 77th rank is about the same as 76th rank for the Knoxville area in terms population for metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S.…
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On the hook at UT
The Knoxville News Sentinel (where I work) and sportswriter Dave Hooker are making news this week in a flap with the University of Tennessee over the suspension of his credentials for acting like a reporter. See: Romenesko: here and here. Editor and Publisher article SPJ encourages Knoxville News Sentinel to fight reporter suspension from UT…