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 [...]
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 [...]
If you don’t get it, maybe you should get out of the way?
Have you ever tried to talk to someone and when you’re trying to get something across, they just shrug or roll their eyes and snort and say, “I don’t get it.” Or maybe you’ve seen it when someone else couldn’t get through. It’s weird, it feels frustrating. I experience it sometimes when I’m trying to [...]
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 [...]
This is happening. Here. Again.
I posted this video to my facebook profile earlier today, a friend shared it and it drew some comments. I got long winded in my response, so I want to post it here and share out the work beyond the walled garden. I AM NOT MOVING – Short Film – Occupy Wall Street [...]
@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 [...]
From John Perry Barlow’s mailing – Boing Boing
From John Perry Barlow’s mailing list on 9/11/01: *DO* WORRY ABOUT US. AND, MORE TO THE POINT, U.S. As most of you know, I believe that the United States has gradually, subtly, invisibly to most of us, become a police state over the last 30 years. This morning’s events are roughly equivalent to the Reichstag [...]
News media’s 2011 bridezilla moment in 9/11 anniversary coverage
Not for a second would I ever suggest I feel anything but the deepest sympathies for those lost and those who lost and I really think everyone was touched by what happened on September 11, 2001. But I must voice a dissenting opinion on the news media as a whole industry for how every editor [...]
Like science and politics, journalism and belief don’t mix
Science deals in reality, and it isn’t there to make you feel comfortable about things. Belief is how you explain the un-explainable. And it must change as new evidence becomes available. A fantastic Op-Ed by Krugman today: Mr. Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,” one that [...]