Some media and journalism related links from NY Times
1. You know all those sex predator scare stories about Myspace that we’ve been reading daily for the past few years? Journalists for some reason have a fascination with writing articles about the danger of Myspace, I know that I’m guilty of doing it once or twice for the newspaper I work for. Well, it looks like we can look forward to many similar stories about Facebook now.
2. Tabloid Eaten by Aliens! Fake Columnist Loses His Job!: Ed Anger isn’t a real person. But his column is dying anyway with the closing of Weekly World News
3. New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column: An LA Times column that focused on mistakes the paper has made got killed before publication.
