And so they should – but “don’t be a dick” and “assume it’s a cock-up until proven otherwise” are good rules of thumb all around. And my case study is (tah dah!) Fran O’Sullivan. Way back in the dark ages…

Summarise away. Felix was complaining about people copy-pasting whole stories, or most thereof. I thought that was really clear.…

Not at all, as I noted above.

In countries without newspaper monopolies, like the UK, other newspapers will grab copies of rivals when they appear in the middle of the night and…

I don't think that's Felix's complaint, to be fair.

It's also a breach of copyright, correct? You could sue, or call in the black helicopters (which I understand are now available to anyone with a copyright beef, or do you need to show a US passport?)

However, the facts in your articles…

I like your work on Twitter, Felix. I hope drawing attention to it every now and then helps return your investment of effort. Likewise, me freely offering up potential story leads should help, I imagine.

But the economics of your industry and our whole…

Interesting post on Stratfor's site examing the consequences of the NATO interference in Libya dealt with in Michael Lewis' very…

The vegetables. The eyes have it. The walnuts. The brains of the place. Check out the comment in Sciblogs about where they got it from. Tabloid??? Hmmmm

http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/2012/09/17/what-kind-of-vegetable-or-fruit-describes-this-nz-herald-article/#comment-228403

Forgive me if I get a little pissed off at people who help themselves to my work and that of…

cough Farrar cough

It's a lot of fine words, but not one of them was drone. All the Martin Luther King and Gandhi…

I'm more surprised that people in official positions don't read official transcripts. Journalists, especially in radio, not so much. You already have a verbatim record.

Having said that your get did actually make for an interesting…

Most important of all in my mind is the deliberate adoption of an open approach to public self criticism and letting writers have a relatively long…

Turns out she was following me already. She clearly has excellent taste.

Yeah most of the Fairfax people I see on Twitter are navigating the personal/official divide in different ways. I don't engage with them too much because my Twitter account is definitely a private venture, and it would be professionally a bit…

And yet, somehow, Paul Henry lasted years.

I see what he meant. The two most senior editorial employees at the Herald, editor-in-chief Tim Murphy and editor Shayne Currie, have been active on Twitter, engaging with readers and…

same

Further to my snarky reply to Alastair, quite a few Fairfax reporters, columnists and bloggers are "cutting it up" on…

Which Gordon Campbell addressed in his response, as highlighted. Real analysis.

Bingo – or, you know, actually do editor-y shit and suggest “you know, you might want to sleep on it (or at least have a cup of tea) and come back with another…

The tone suggests that, yes.

Quite. Not so fast. Fairfax launches new online initiatives, including making money from online interactions.

[citation needed]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Lunchbox-differences-in-decile-1-and-decile-10-schools/tabid/367/articleID/269617/Default.aspx

Sure, and just between us while I love the New Yorker's long-form pieces on principle the magazine's mandarin house style can tip over into self-parody.…

No doubt the appeal was wearing the underpants on the outside.

The media pundits have become, in their own minds, the news – they seem to all have the same…

Hmmm ... he will sometimes focus on a handful of linked sources, but generally it's something I haven't already seen and always fairly attributed.

I actually always was a Superman fan. Can't say whether Clark's journalism thing was a part of the appeal though.

I'm not clear what you're trying to say, John.

Yeah, nah.

Well to be fair it might be a subject for discussion around your table at tea time, but out here in the rest of New Zealand (and I'm going to use a royal we here)…

As I said, I tend to avoid the political blogs these days. I rely on Bryce to read them for me ...

I subscribe to two magazines: Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. I find American newspapers fairly…

So Peter Parker rather than Bruce Wayne?

Yet he did.

Almost as if nobody else had been writing about it during the last decade.

And at the risk of…

She has excellent contacts and at her best can really cut to the quick of an issue. And some days, yeah,…

Fair enough. I still think it was completely out of order for Tim to go and hype it on the basis…

Not only a cheap shot, but one that can come back on a boomerang. You don’t need a crystal ball to predict the reaction if anyone accused Armstrong of being a…

What is Fran O’Sullivan so afraid of? She sounds like those shrill right wing idiots who campaign to keep al jazeera out of the U.S. lest it pollute the mainstream discourse…

"Become a writer, a photographer or video journalist and you could have your work featured on Stuff Nation."

You can become a vital part of our team…

We actually have super-powers. They make up for the crappy pay and poor future job prospects.

Tush, Ben. No one one would ever call you 'dull'!

Honestly though: Out of Armstrong, Campbell and Edwards in this one – who reads as the angriest and most abusive?

This is the Edwards column that has Fran and John so up in arms:. Excerpt:

There was a lot build-up and reporting…

Me? But I don't even think that! Dull, angry, male and repetitive is actually my bio.

If you make your living by making public commentary or even merely reporting the facts, then having that commentary subject to crticism would seem to be part of the job. Rather than railing against it Armstrong might…

Like I said,…

Later, she uses the term "pinko" un-ironically.

It's funny when you realise "journalists" like Armstrong…

Heh, brilliant. They beat the crap out of some cardboard cutouts, and then are blown sky high by a single pistol shot from 5 miles away.

OTOH, Warren Berryman used to leave hacks half his age twitching and weeping into their over-loud Berocca. But I guess you can't win — send your spring chickens instead of the battle-hardened old…

Journalists behaving like MPs who behave like children.

Le sigh.

Incoming! Damian Christie!

Gordon Campbell addresses this one explicitly…

And Mr Edwards seems due for one directly from Mr Armstrong, judging by what Bryce writes here:

I'm genuinely surprised by his vigorous critique of my work. In fact, I met him for coffee twice last month for amicable…

MAJOR LOLZ.

A bit like going to the White House / Downing Street and peering through the railings. I wonder, when political journalists were small children, their favourite treat was to sit in the car on Tinakori Rd and wait for the PM…

I was thinking about that. I'd struggle with that itinerary, and I do…

...Few media representatives travelling with John Key would have got more than four or five hours’ sleep each night – probably less – because of the Prime Minister’s schedule, which ran from 6am (earlier if a flight was involved) until well into the evening. Days were…

– High noon. Some isolated old fart decides to have a fight and no one else wants to join in so he has to take the gang by himself. Nope, not applicable here.

– __Once upon a time in…

Some people wonder why the public seemingly only care about celeb culture...

Yes, if we wanted that, we'd join the army.

And now Edwards himself has responded, with remarkable grace.