The story assignment for Tue. 10 a.m. Oct.21st is a review of some sort of art event or subject. For example a movie, music concert or new CD,a T.V. show,a book, an art show or live drama or dance. See you next week.

Go over the futurismic.com and scroll down to the article about new Journalism. See if you can answer the question at the end and send it to me as an e-mail for bonus points.

There has been a lot of talk about how the web is revolutionising news distribution and it is true, however there are a few down sides. This below is from slashdot:
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| Misadventures In Online Journalism |
| from the dewey-defeats-obama dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 11, @10:44 (The Media) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/11/1439222/Misadventures-In-Online-Journalism |
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An anonymous reader writes "Paul Carr, writing for TechCrunch, has posted
his take on some of the flaws inherent to today's fast-paced news
ecosystem, where [0]bloggers often get little or no editorial feedback
and interesting headlines are passed around faster than ever. His article
was inspired by a recent story on ZDNet that accused Yahoo of sharing the
names and emails of 200,000 users with the Iranian government; [1]a
report that turned out to be false, yet generated a great deal of outrage
before it was disproved. Carr writes, 'Trusting the common sense of your
writers is all well and good — but when it comes to breaking news, where
journalistic adrenaline is at its highest and everyone is paranoid about
being scooped by a competitor, that common sense can too easily become
the first casualty. Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get
excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and
call it news. And then within half a minute — bloggers being what they
are — the news gets repeated and repeated until it becomes fact. Fact
that can affect share prices or ruin lives. This is the reality of the
blogosphere, where Churchill's remark: that "a lie gets halfway around
the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" is more
true, and more potentially damaging, than at any time in history.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/10/11/1439222

Links:
0. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/witn-yahoo-didnt-sentence-200000-iranians-to-death-and-other-misadventures-in-online-journalism/
1. http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5547&tag=col1%3Bpost-5547