Archive for December, 2009
Newshour Sheds Light on Changes
I asked a lot of questions in my blog post yesterday about the new alliance between PBS Newshour, my favorite weekday television news program, and an online news outfit in Boston called GlobalPost. While, on one hand, a spokesperson for GlobalPost responded in a curiously confrontational manner – especially for a fairly new “news” organization – I just received far more professional and enlightening perspective from Newshour.
GlobalPost Threatens Over Blog Post
I wrote yesterday about the questions and concerns I had about my favorite television news program, PBS Newshour, announcing a partnership to use the international reporting services of Boston-based GlobalPost. GlobalPost, I found, has been described as a “blog” and even NewsHour last evening called it a “Web site.” Today, there are threats from GlobalPost and a demand that the blog post be removed.
