links for 2007-03-04

Andy Dickinson spots an impressive rant against American journalism, blogs and online journalism generally by a self-proclaimed non-dinosaur journalism educator. I really hope this isn’t what he’s is teaching his students.

“Banks have been breaking the Data Protection Act by levying excessive charges to customers who are seeking a refund of their bank charges.”

A new site or young journalists from the US Society of Professional Journalists.

Rob Curley explains what journalism students should be doing to get to grips with new media.

Well, it’s pretty funny, anyway.

“One of Labour’s finer achievements has been to introduce freedom of information to Britain. … One puzzling element is why Falconer is so keen to turn a success story sour.”

Peter Preston buries the key line at the very end: “Simple print numbers in simple tables simply don’t do it any longer.”