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Blackmail and pressing – happens everywhere

6 April 2013

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]

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Congrats to Jason Calacanis

31 January 2010

He single-handed exposed the weak tech journalism. Using his twitter account, Mr.. Calacanis started posting fake and easy guess-able Apple iPad specs, ours ago before the official announcement. Some journalists believe him and posted “the news” on their sites. Of course, now they feel dumb, and I agree with Loren they should be, if they […]

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why the print dies

21 December 2009

I was on the toilet, reading one of the few magazines i still buy on a regular basis. And realized why people are buying fewer and fewer newspapers. The web did not kill the press. Press killed itself. It was a combination of lack of professional journalism and news overload. Almost all of Romanian economic […]

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why it’s so easy to kick journalists’ asses

21 August 2009

Because they are slow. On Sunday, I was on a bus from Danube Delta to Bucharest. I got a tip about a hot video. I managed to post the news a few hours ahead of the newspaper boys, who were sleeping or did not have the news. While I was on a bus, mind you. […]

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