After trying to force reporters to wear press badges that refer to the media as “jackals,” Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura wants to hold a press conference where only the Photojournalists are allowed to ask questions in the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s article “Ventura says Capitol reporters are ‘crybabies’.” (towards the bottom of the article)

“Lifting copy is simply part of one’s job.” International reporters stealing quotes from U.S. newspapers and U.S. reporters abroad cutting and pasting quotes out of the European press: Brill’s Content: International Quote-Lift

The Web Color Visualizer is one of the best ways to figure out what colors you want on a site when you design a new site. Besides giving you the hexadecimal of whatever color your looking at, it also shows what a color looks like as a background what a color looks like as different size text.

Big Media corporations are combining their different outlets efforts by requiring newspaper reporters to appear on television, television reporters to write newspaper stories and newspaper photographers to sho0t video. Read all about in Mike Wendland’s column in the Detroit Free Press: Newspapers, TV stations and Web sites converge to create a new media entity