Archive for the ‘Media criticism’ Category
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Harris interactive released a new poll on Monday, indicating that 22 percent of American adults regularly read political blogs, meaning several times a month or more. This is an astonishing number, both for what it tells us about the impressive penetration of blogging into political life and for the pervasive ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Robert Reich's latest book, Supercapitalism, is a fantastic analysis of the current relationship between corporations, citizens, and politics.
I put Supercapitalism on my wish list after Prof. Lawrence Lessig's glowing recommendation. While I make no pretense of being such a gifted writer as either of these scholars, here I attempt to ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
In a series begun yesterday, the Seattle Times is taking on the sorry state of the media industry and media policy.
Editorial Page Editor James Vesely has a brief introduction. Yesterday, they ran an opinion piece by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. Today, it's Penn Law School luminary Ed Baker.
Today, they also ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
There are often times when I wish I had my trusty digital voice recorder—the one that sent Senator Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” anti-net neutrality speech into the Internet Meme Hall of Fame. Yesterday afternoon at the annual convention for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the ...
Posted in Copyright, DRM, FCC, Internet policy, Media consolidation, Media criticism, Network neutrality, Technological Protection Measures, Telecommunications, Telecommunications law | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 14th, 2007
In light of the first-person shooter-style massacre at Virginia Tech, Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer cribs from the academic literature to argue that video games really do contribute to violent behavior. The point about video game violence is important, so I write about it first. After that, I’ll spar with Schaffer ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
In perhaps the most systematic study to date of The O'Reilly Factor, journalism scholars from the University of Indiana concluded that O'Reilly systematically deploys a broad array of disreputable propaganda techniques.
On many counts, the researchers concluded O'Reilly uses underhanded propaganda techniques over 50% more often (12.9 times per minute) than ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
In my last post about the Digg/HD-DVD hack story, I fretted that the take-away lesson from the Digg story would be that Web 2.0 is just too hot to handle. The mainstream media is generally framing it this way, but the tech news world is mostly framing it as a ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
I finally read the blog teaser for my friend Jason Clarke's book, Letter from Tomorrow, and it's damned good. Of course, I'm biased; I urge you to see for yourself.
I'm going to buy the book because I've gotten a taste and want more. Jason has shown me just enough to ...
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
A Columbia University professor explains why we can't rely on media reports for an accurate Iraq death toll. Meanwhile, the Columbia Journalism Review features an article explaining how journalists are tougher on presidential administrations now than ever before.
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
In yet another example of the abusive use of DMCA Title II, Disney has effectively silenced a weblog critic who was waging a successful PR campaign against one of its stations for patently offensive content.
The blog, Spocko's Brain, posted audio files of right-wing talk show hosts from Bay Area ABC ...
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