The squares gang over at CBS News have launched a new blog.
Public Eye (get it? their logo looks like a…whatever) enters the blogosphere with this impressive manifesto, excerpted below:
“Public Eye’s fundamental mission is to bring transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News – transparency that is unprecedented for broadcast and online journalism…Public Eye is an opportunity for our audience to hold CBS News more publicly accountable…No major broadcast or cable network has ever tried anything like Public Eye.”
One of the cooler things CBS is doing is inviting those outside the network to weigh in with their thoughts on CBS News and the media in general in an ongoing column called “Outside Voices”. NYU Professor of Journalism Jay Rosen is the first author up at bat with a post titled An Open Letter to CBS.
Check out some scathing yet hilarious commentary on Public Eye’s efforts by AdAge’s Media Guy here (reg req’d but it’s worth it – PROMISE).
