POLL JUMPING

Steve Outing takes a look at the controversy over bloggers publishing early exit poll results during yesterday's U.S. presidential election and concludes:

How about accepting that the media world has changed, and that mainstream news organizations are powerless to control the flow of information (whether it be leaked exit-poll numbers or graphic videos of beheadings)? All mainstream editors can do is live by their own standards -- to keep their own houses in order. Anyone got a better idea?

The headline on his Poynter EMedia Tidbits item says it all: Control bloggers? You must be kidding

UPDATE: Outing also has a longer piece that looks at the role the web played in election coverage.
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TALE OF TWO HEADLINES

120,000,000 votes, no result — Vancouver Sun

It's Bush (probably) &mdash Globe & Mail

Which paper are you going to pick up?

UPDATE: Best front page headline I've seen so far is over at newsdesigner.com, from Provo, Utah: Bush*
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GOOD KNIGHT!

From unmediated.org: Chastity belts for the wireless world.
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MAKING PAGES

Nice, interactive piece at Newsday that allows you to put together your own Newsday election front page: choose the picture, write your headline and teaser and you're done.

Fun way to take out your post-election frustrations.

SOURCE: Interactive Narratives.
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OPPOSING VIEWS

Jay Rosen is writing essays faster than I can digest them. Are we headed for an opposition press? is his latest and, again, it's required reading for those trying to get their heads around journalism.

Just to be clear: I don't agree with everything Rosen writes but he is consistently framing the issues about where journalism is and where it could/should be going.
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SHOWING SIGNS

Chris Vivion has a photographic look at people and their protest signs. He explains at his blog, Here Not There:

I started an essay about protesters February last, and thought now would be as good time as any to post it.

The essay focuses mostly on the signage -- particularly homemade signs -- that people choose to carry at these events. I saw how often particular designs and typographical choices themselves revealed just as much insight into a person's character as the type of jacket, shoes, or brand of jeans they wore that day. Mostly they held their signs close to them, they held them out, in front of themselves, holding the signs up toward the camera while they stepped slightly back behind the curtains.

SOURCE: A Photo a Day.
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A BLOG ON BLOGS

Samantha Israel, a journalism student at Ryerson, has started a blog that's a conversation about blogs and how they relate to journalism.

From her introduction:

Welcome to Blog on Blog — the blog where bloggers blog about nothing but blogs. Well, blogs and journalism that is.

Do you think blogs are unplugged versions of columns? Does horizontal editing float your boat? Do you think the old media is a dying breed? Do you wonder if blogs are a threat to the mainstream media? Are you itching for a rant about arrogant bloggers?

Three posts so far, and she's already stirring the pot with one that included this quote from Jim Carroll, identified as a "Canadian internet trends expert":

Blogs are not journalism. They're so one-sided. There's no objectivity, no independence, no integrity. The blog world is all op-ed stuff - you can see by the first sentence if it's a Republican blog or a Democratic one.... Anyone with half a brain is losing any respect they once had for any form of journalism because of this imbalance.

SOURCE: David Akin.
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