links for 2009-02-18
by Martin Belam, 18 February 2009
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"Child protection officers at East Sussex County Council have written to the Press Complaints Commission to complain about harassment of the teenagers". Third party complaints not usually welcome or actionable at the PCC of course...
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"The news that matters to most of the public most of the time is the news from their kids’ school playground; the news from the streets around their home; events on their block, in their postcode - that’s the news that impacts on their daily lives. Small news. Hyper-small news. In every likelihood hyper-small news provided by hyper-small community news platforms."
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Interesting to note that the Express has not allowed comments on this story
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"I'm still convinced that hereish-and-soonish/thereish-and-thenish are the grain we need to be exploring rather than just connecting a network of the pulsing 'blue-dot'."
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"Residents, politicians and local business people contacted the Southport Visiter after the Shropshire Star used an image of a local street under the headline 'Official: It's Recession' and the caption 'Ghost town – closed shops in Southport, Merseyside'."
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"But former BBC industrial and political correspondent Nick Jones claimed at an NUJ Left meeting in London last night that Jade, along with 13-year-old dad Alfie Patten, had become 'Freak TV.'...He said it was the type of material that the BBC would never have commissioned or broadcast and accused the regulatory bodies of being 'asleep at the wheel'."
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"Presumably newspapers want people to read their content. But some of their websites are sticking to the old model of content delivery — chucking it all in one place and making its readers browse through everything until they come across an article they're interested in."