links for 2009-07-03

• Parsing CSV
  In this tutorial you will learn how to parse a simple CSV (comma separated values) file. This is the sort of file produced by spreadsheets and other programs when a text-only, portable format is required for exporting data.
  (tags: perl csv)
• Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
  Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
  (tags: politics internet media journalism newspapers print the-late-age-of-print)
• freefromeditors: Crain's Bill Shea has pointed give-and-take with another journalist
  Found this column by Crain's blogger Bill Shea on some Michigan Citizen charges against the Detroit Free Press and its coverage of soon-to-be former Detroit Councilperson Monica Conyers.

  The story is one thing, but the comments back and forth between Bill and the subject of his story is also good reading.

  
  
  (tags: shea,bill conyers,monica journalism newspaper comments this-is-what-newspaper-comments-are-for)
  
  
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  Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
  
  
  For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

  The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

  
  
  (tags: politics economics journalism newspapers we-need-a-better-press-corps wapo)
  
  
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  Vrijdag 26 juni: Ann Arbor en Detroit
  
  
  Vandaag stond Ann Arbor op het programma, een charmant universiteitsstadje dat in gotische stijl is opgetrokken. Alweer geïnspireerd door de Engelse universiteiten, natuurlijk. Goed afkijken, is ook een kunst. In Amerika zijn ze trouwens ook dol op de Griekse en Romeinse bouwstijlen. Als ze ergens een zuil kunnen tussen wringen, zullen ze het zeker niet laten. Zelfs moderne gebouwen worden met klassieke zuilen versierd. Bij mij roepen al die zuilen eerder een gevoel van slechte imitatie op.
  
  
  (tags: michigan annarbor)
  
  

Comments

[Tom Brandt]

The Washington Post canceled the dinner after the Politico article appeared. It's depressing to think that a health care lobbyist is more ethical than the Washington Post.

[Tom Brandt]

TypePad scrubbed my a tag. Here is the link about the WaPo canceling the dinner:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070201563.html