Dr. David Hazinski, former NBC correspondent turned associate professor of telecommunications and head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, finds unfettered “citizen journalism” too risky and argues that the news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend. As you might guess, the reaction in the blogosphere to Hazinski’s piece has been (as I write this) uniformly negative.  Generally, the

For Cafe Press items.  Tomorrow’s the last day for free shipping, so please pitch in.  Any images will have to include any writing that you’d like to have.  Please send large image files, let me know what product you’d like them on.Thanks. If that’s not your gig, please tell Jeff why he might want to consider coming back. 

Dan Collins 6:16pm Nov 23rd We Dan Collinses have to stick together. Why don’t you have any networks? Daniel Matthew Collins Today at 2:26pm Report Message Get bent you queer Dan Collins Today at 2:33pm Oh, geez. I wave hello and someone has to go all hate crime on me. To be continued . . .

You’re so green, you  prob’ly think this song is about you. WHO would have thought that saving the planet could be such a lucrative business? Al Gore, the former US vice-president turned environmental campaigner, has made more than £50m in just seven years from his books, speeches and shrewd investments in technology and green ventures. Gore, 59, a failed presidential candidate, has already reinvented himself from the nearly man of

Paris Hilton wants everyone to know that she’s installed environmentally-friendly light bulbs throughout her house. Which begs the obvious question………

Apparently, Scott Beauchamp is back home on furlough, and Elspeth is expressing her unhappiness with Franklin Foer’s decision to retract before Scott came home and could adequately defend himself . . . which is as phony as Fauxer’s Proustian passive-aggressive snit.  In a Wedding Blog, apparently.  And don’t skip the post on Alterman at Owens’s place, or the other new stuff up at Burge’s.  I say, let the guy have

It is now Friday, so my guess is that he is high in the Andes in northern Chile. Update:  Some commenters have taken issue with this post on the grounds that today is Thursday.  Despite their ideological motives, the doubts about my claim that it is Friday resonated.  I have undertaken an investigation.  While I cannot definitively say that it is not Friday somewhere — or that Jeff is not in the

Rusty’s been doing some research, kicking ass and taking names.Fausta’s radio show focuses on Venezuela’s constitution, with guest Daniel Duquenal. Liz and Whachamacallim Backstage at Glenn Beck’s Pittsburgh appearance. 

Via Patterico, behold the splendor of the fat dork who lives with his mom and thinks that the internets make him Jack Bauer. Update:  My favorite part of this whole thing, as pointed out by Pablo in comments at Pat’s, is this quote: Now he’s ripping on me for being 35 and living at home. Give that ol’ boy a star for Originality! Please, If I had a dollar for

RTO’s round-up of good news from Iraq.