Despite its blurred lines and murky methods, The Ambassador is an anxiety-producing, sometimes fantastic emanation from the future. It is of a genre whose time is nearly (but not quite) here, for better or worse.
Reality Check
06:50 AM - August 13, 2012
Collapsing the line between documentary and fiction
A new film, The Ambassador, exhibits “performance journalism,” a combination of art and reporting
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
http://bruggertheambassador.blogspot.com/ explains why THE AMBASSADOR is not a documentary nor a mockumentary, and reveals the inconvenient truth behind the story about what was left out.
#1 Posted by Don Quichote, CJR on Mon 13 Aug 2012 at 01:12 PM
I'm reminded of what Hunter S Thompson said of Nixon in his hilarious obituary:
" Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism-- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful. "
The powerful have gotten so good at playing the PR game that you often need to bend the rules in order to evade their skillful obfuscations. Could "real" journalism have given us the images of child labor and blood diamonds that Brugger delivered?
#2 Posted by MikeJake, CJR on Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 12:25 PM
"Could "real" journalism have given us the images of child labor and blood diamonds that Brugger delivered?"
Certainly not. Just like "real" journalism couldn't have taken down ACORN or exposed NPR's leftism....
When you have a bunch of scumbags who are willing to lie, there's nothing like a button cam to set things right.
#3 Posted by padikiller, CJR on Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 07:19 PM