I wrote a story for WalletPop today about an Internet hoax that Russell Crowe (no relation) was dead. He’s not. He’s fine. And so am I, although I used the same website that someone used to create the Russell Crowe hoax to come up with the same headlines if I were an actor: Luxury yacht [...]
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Another journalist not getting paid
Posted in rant on Apr 23rd, 2010
Here’s a photo of Al Gore at work in his office. I took it from his website, and now await his lawsuit. A story in today’s New York Times points out how Gore’s cable TV station, Current TV, grabbed a photo off another Web site to use on Current TV. The photo’s owner, an Orinda [...]
Aaron Crowe I’ve thought this for a long time, but it really struck me today in two separate events: Every business should hire a journalist if it wants to be successful. What would a journalist do for a company? Many things, which I’ll get to in a bit, but up high on that list is [...]
