The real reason the internet is killing old-school journalism: Transparency
Journalists Overlook Ideological Diversity of Occupy Protest Movement | Age of Engagement | Big Think. Reading the above post and watching the short clip, another voice — independent from me — is helping illustrate why the occupy movement is the shark that corporate journalism jumped in 2011. Transparency is killing old-school journalism. Old school journalists [...]
Are the Media Dishonest?
Are the Media Dishonest? – TVNewser. On Saturday, presidential candidate Herman Cain made this statement: “There are too many people in the media who are downright dishonest.” Do you agree with that statement? Agree Disagree N/O 64.0% 19.3% 16.7% National Telephone Poll of 1,179 Registered Voters / 11.06.11 / Margin of Error +/- 3% Poll [...]
Assaulting intellectual honesty: O’Keefe tries to sting Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky
Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!! » Pressthink. The link above, to Jay’s PressThink blog, contains his transparent accounting of the story behind the spurious and specious story that James O’Keefe is trying to present as a “truth.” It also features [...]
A call to create a credibility engine for online news and content
i think we need a credibility engine. something open sourced and freely associated along the lines of a Facebook iike button that can plug into any site or piece of content. the button associates the piece of content with a specific analytics-like dashboard page that cleanly displays the credibility meter and spiders out to other [...]
Iraq will haunt me, for the rest of my days.
The war in Iraq was a crime based on fraud. It was the first bunco scheme that qualifies as an international war crime. It was an unnecessary war of aggression, sold by thieves and con-men to a too-credulous American public that had been told for the previous 30 years that all politics was a shuck, [...]
I Disagree: Freakonomics » Pew Study: People Undervalue Their Local Newspaper
A new research report from the Pew Research Center reveals that while Americans get their local news from a variety of different sources, they far undervalue their local paper as a major source of that news. Authors Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell, Kristen Purcell and Lee Rainie write: In all, the data in a new national [...]
Guardian job description is what jschool grad degree requirements should be
You know what I think as I read this job description for an Interactive designer at the Guardian, possibly the best online news presence online? guardiannews.com is looking for a creative interactive designer to join our interactive team to develop our site and online brand. In this role you will participate in and lead interactive [...]
Help me create a media technology management course
i’ve been asked to put together a course in media technology management as part of a new curriculum we’re developing that serves the demand for media entrepreneurship education. as i’ve been writing away at it, i thought i’d reach out and see what you’d like to learn or think should be considered as part of [...]
@brianstelter NYT piece on occupy wall street unwittingly shows gap in citizen and legacy media
NY Times media scribe Brian Stelter has a piece out today (Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story – NYTimes.com) that looks at how the news media is picking up on the Occupy Wall Street and associated movements and how coverage has been growing and changing in tone. I’ve been talking about this movement for [...]
We spend more time with social media news than mainstream news
Americans spend just a fraction of online time with news compared to social media | Poynter.. The above link by my friend and sometimes editor Steve Myers at Poynter points out some great research by Nielsen about our online habits. We spend more time socializing online than we do [...]