The effects are large, equivalent to 5 years of education, and move gender attitudes in rural areas much closer to those in urban areas. These results have important policy implications, as India and others attempt to decrease bias against women.
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All the News Unfit to Print
But too many facts can ruin a good yarn, so the encouraged their reporters to embellish a bit. The reporters complied and started spicing up stories with lovely details that came straight from their imaginations. Gradually, true stories became 50%-true stories, then 25%-true stories, then ..
Google Hype Alert
this calls the feedback thingie on google news a really stupid idea. i think i agree.
International news brands
Guardian Unlimited and TimesOnline have more American than British readers
not surprising really. there are only 2 newspapers in the US worth reading, NYT and WSJ.
Media at Work
After she had already declined to get a press pass several times, organizers fooled her, leading her to believe that she could get video of a federal agent being outed on the conference hall floor.
pro media = hacks, more often than not.
Yahoo buying Orkut
What’s on Yahoo’s shopping list? Bebo, Friendster, Orkut, Friendster and Hi5 are potential targets. And of course, there’s Facebook.
the AAA type journalists at zdnet suggest yahoo buy orkut.
Survivorman
Les Stroud is the “host” of the show, and he gets dropped off in some random far-away location with bare minimum of supplies and they come back to get him a week later. He then films himself making shelter, finding food, etc.
Washington Post goes digital
Why is the Post Co. in better shape than its peers? Luck played a role. In 1984 the company bought a small test-preparation business from a Brooklyn entrepreneur named Stanley Kaplan, not really knowing what it was getting. Today the Kaplan education division is the company’s largest and fastest-growing business
hmm? these “newspapers are reinventing themselves” articles seem to be all the rage now
UGC Newspapers
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It used to read, ‘Be a Citizen Journalist’ And no one ever clicked on it. Then we called it ‘Neighbor to Neighbor,’ and still nothing. For some reason, ‘Get Published’ was the magic phrase.” Parker will pore over 10s of submissions from readers today. These will range from a local custom-car builder trumpeting his upcoming appearance on the BET show Spring Bling to an emotional notice about a play being staged to raise funds for a 5th-grader’s bone marrow transplant. Contributors submit to 1 of 233 neighborhood Web sites, each aimed at a town or community in the Cincinnati area. Parker approves the submission (“I almost never reject one”), scans it for “the F-word,” and posts it to the site. “A few years ago, these would have come across the transom as press releases and been ignored.”
another one, this time singing the praises of gannettt. whatever!
TV Accountability
since tv is not broadcast & forget anymore, it is out to haunt you if you are stupid / wrong. just wait for full-text search and face recognition. “give me dubya sound bites on X”.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 