citizen journalism tips

How Debra Medina supporters can strike back effectively - 2/13/2010

Debra Medina is a tea parties/Ron Paul-style candidate for governor of Texas. I'm not a Medina supporter [1]. At the same time, some of those attacking and smearing her are even worse, and in general I tend to prefer an open dialogue about issues rather than attempts to quash debate. So, if you'd like to strike back against those attacking her, one of the best things you can do is to hel...

Huffington Post, AP mislead about Sarah Palin book; opponents not effective (pipeline deal) - 11/18/2009

The Huffington Post and the Associated Press are reviving a smear both perpetrated against Sarah Palin about a year ago. At the same time, most of Palin's defenders aren't taking effective steps to counter-act what HuffPost and the AP are doing. In October of last year, AP writers Garance Burke and Justin Pritchard wrote about one of Palin's resume points, a pipeline deal. As contem...

Serge Kovaleski, Jim Rutenberg, William Yardley of NYT lie about Sarah Palin hair thinning (per hairdresser) - 7/19/2009

... Severson. Note that this is in the citizen journalism tips section because this is an example of how to write posts that have a long-term impact on the mainstream media; the "Conservatives4Palin" writer made a few mistakes in the structure of his post that this post seeks to correct. In case that's not immediately clear, see the other entries at the last page. This post is also an ...

Where's WillDo: can you spot the errors in RealClearPolitics' post? - 7/14/2009

A writer at the Huffington Post offers 'Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To GOP With "Fried Chicken And Potato Salad"' (link). As mostly convincingly explained here, the post is misleading about what Michael Steele said. However, that's not the reason for this post. Instead, this is to point out that the third link above (to RealClearPolitics) won't be nearly as effective...

Sarah Palin resigning as Alaskan governor; what supporters can do - 7/03/2009

Earlier today, Sarah Palin made the shocking announcement that she will be resigning as governor of Alaska (link). Unlike probably everyone else, I'm not going to bother speculating on her reasons, but instead on what her supporters can do. Assuming, of course, she does want to continue with her political career, one of the best things her supporters could do for her would be to go after thos...

Why this is no longer a blog, Part 439923B - 6/02/2009

How stupid are the blogs? This stupid. There aren't even 3500 hits for his name without quotes (and just 1600 hits for his name with quotes). In other words, he's more or less a sitting duck for anyone who wanted to send a message to those who'd be looking for, say, examples of his work. While some of those with top positions are strong to very strong sites with a little work it wou...

WorldNetDaily, Newsbusters criticize Wikipedia while helping it - 3/08/2009

WorldNetDaily informs us that "Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility/Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned" (wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91114). They're right about that, but at the same time as criticizing Wikipedia they also help that site by linking to it. The best way to deal with WP is to stop linking to it and encou...

Citizen journalists: how to increase the effectiveness of your criticism - 1/25/2009

This post will look at three rightwing blog postings and describe how they could have been more effective. I keep seeing people make these same mistakes and - to be frank - to a certain extent I don't want them to do things the better way since that's more competition for me. On the other hand, another mistake they and similar people make is to not read this site, so it all evens out.

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