A Twitterbot has arisen to illustrate Betteridge's law of headlines, which states that any headline in the form of a question can be answered "No."This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which e...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/The-Answer-is-No/
Philadelphia Inquirer Newsroom, 2009... ...ou want - obsolescence of the dead tree journalism , the failure to adapt to new technology and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/23/Photos-That-Summarize-the-Slow-Death-of-the-Newspaper-Industry/
The organization Reporters Without Borders has released their Freedom of the Press Index for 2013. Sadly, whether you can find out what's going on in the world depends on where you live. Many governments still control in...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/11/The-Press-Freedom-Index-2013/
How do journalists get into this mysterious group? They must sneak the phrase "It was as if an occult hand had..." past their editors and into published articles. The Order emerged sometime during the 1960s, perhaps when...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/31/The-Order-of-the-Occult-Hand-A-Secret-Society-of-Journalists/
In the past week, there have been news stories from normally serious sources concerning a unicorn, yeti, sasquatch, chupacabra, and a vampire. We passed on all of them except for the vampire story (which had no mention o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/02/Scientists-Uncover-Global-League-of-Mythical-Creatures/
DC Comics is planning major changes for the life o... ...ng for the Daily Planet and engage in independent journalism . Comic book writer Scott Lobdell explains:"Rather...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/23/Superman-Quits-Newspaper-Job-to-Become-a-Blogger/
Back in 1958, when Hunter S. Thompson was 21 years old and no one called him a gonzo jounrnalist yet, he wrote a letter to Jack Scott of the Vancouver Sun trying to land a job.Sir,I got a hell of a kick reading the piece...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/14/Hunter-S-Thompson-Applies-for-a-Job/[YouTube Clip] Sure, it looks funny that people are hanging out in boats when another guy is only ankle deep. This is one of the reasons that people distrust journalists, but there is an explanation. The "deep water"...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/03/deep-water/
On June 28, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Both CNN and Fox News, in an effort to break the news qui...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/09/a-cautionary-tale-for-the-news-industry/
Imagine you had lived all your life without TV, but after seeing it once, you had to explain television to other people who had never seen one. Buzzfeed collected clips from newspapers that announced the new technolo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/20/explaining-new-technology-through-the-ages/
