links for 2006-11-26

The news media without a trade title is “like General Motors not having a car park or Google not having broadband.”

A Freedom of Information conference held under Chatham House rules. Hilarious.

The Independent – yes, you read right – is blogging.

Peter Cole makes the strangest argument yet about Google News. Just skip straight to the last paragraph. How dare people read headlines before they chose what to click! Outrageous!

Even the Freepers have noticed.

Howard Owens agrees with Andrew Grant-Adamson’s view that reporters don’t have time to be bad bloggers, but adds that all reporters shoul learn how to do it.

Cherie Blair on Wenesday told Roehampton University journalism students that journalism is “not a noble calling” and that journalists “have no ethics”. She slammed the PCC has being dominated by the Daily Mail.