Comments on: Class action law firm announces “investigation”

By: Hobnob Blog

Hobnob Blog — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:48:24 +0000

Assorted Links 1/23/09…

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By: Carter Wood

Carter Wood — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:47:24 +0000

Local angle — Greenwich — with the hot Madoff connection, and probably the reporter or editor didn’t know what “launching an investigation” means in the class-action news release world. (Which would be consistent with the view that skilled reporters are gone.)

But then, sometimes, you just need to fill a hole.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:32:47 +0000

Newspapers have been doing this long before they fired all the reporters. This was covered in Drew Curtis’ 2007 tome, “It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News”

Maybe, just maybe, these practices are why no one is reading newspapers, which may explain why businesses no longer will pay to advertise in them and lo and behold publishers have to layoff their employees. Who would have thought it.