Hackers and online criminals are opportunists. When natural disasters occur, hackers are quick to take advantage of the situation with such ploys as phony donation sites. With the current economic turmoil, there is a concern that there will be a continued increase in phishing activity:
“…The FTC said the current rapid changes in the [...]
What do you read for the news? Whether it is online news or traditional newspapers, what is your source of news? It is a question to which Governor Palin gave Katie Couric a very generic answer:
“…Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you [...]
Most people reading these words will remember when journalism was a scared trust. The main objective of reporters was to be the objective first witnesses of history. The criteria were defined clearly. It was to tell the story: who, where, how, when and why. News services prided themselves on having [...]
It seems like déjà vu. It is yet another pet food recall. Mars Petcare has issued a recall because of salmonella concerns:
“Several brands and varieties of dry dog and cat food have been recalled by Mars Petcare because the food may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella called Salmonella serotype Schwarzengrund. A [...]
There is an annoying problem that occurs for some Google users. Upon clicking for the Google News section, the wrong country is shown. For example, the person wanting to read the Google News may be in the United Kingdom and wants the U.K. items but Google presents the items from Google News France. [...]
Google News has some oddities. Sometimes, it does not recognize the country from which the connection to the Google site is made. It will start serving news from a foreign country. At other times, old news will be listed as a fresh story. When this happened recently, Wall Street reacted and [...]
The news services creep ever so close to tabloid journalism. As one of the most critical elections in decades approaches, the present focus is not on war, the economy or health care. Instead, the news media think that the interest of the public rests in marital infidelity, paternity tests and clandestine late night [...]
With the competition for twenty four hour news, the television journalists are quickly on the scene to cover disasters, man-made or natural. There is a trend to put “a face” on the disaster and to personalize it. A microphone is placed before someone who is having one of the worse moments of his/her [...]
There is an old adage that newspaper editors use as a guideline. That ‘rule of thumb’ is that, if something is happening every day, it is no longer an important news item. In newspaper terms, it is “buried”. The item becomes filler on the back pages.
This is what is happening [...]
One of the fundamentals of journalism school is stressing the tenet of reporting the facts. The facts are checked carefully and this becomes the news.
Speculation is not the news. Personal opinion is not the news. It may be an editorial, a viewpoint or a commentary but it is not the news. [...]
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