My few, fleeting seconds of fame occurred on March 12. Anyone flipping to that page of the 2007 Freedom Forum First Amendment calendar will see a quote from me: Without journalists, others […]
Your thought for the weekend: Why can’t CNN.com tell the difference between a candidate and non-candidate?
You know, if you’re CNN, you could at least try to get it right. Go to CNN.com’s Politics page and scroll down a little. In the right column there’s a box that […]
The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews
Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required […]
When “The Ever Present Past” doesn’t supply marketing research
Paul McCartney has a new single out called “My Ever Present Past.” (Scroll down the page to download the song.) Not only is it sonically a nice synthesis of a lot of […]
The Consequences of Lazy Journalism
by Amaury Nora I don’t know about you, but it feels like the Virginia Tech massacre that took place on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, […]
Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
In March 2000 the original dotcom Bubble 1.0 burst. With hindsight there were lots of reasons that it happened: vastly overvalued stocks in companies that didn’t sell anything and lost cash in […]
Internet radio royalty ruling: who’s being served?
You may have noticed stories about the Copyright Royalty Board’s recent decision to jack the fees it charges Internet radio outlets. The initial response was dire – this move could force most […]
MSNBC trying out “unbiased” replacement for Imus; whither Olbermann?
So, Matt Drudge is reporting that MSNBC is going to try out Michael Smerconish for the Imus spot. Word floating around is that they won’t even consider a progressive host (like the […]
Moyers returns with ‘devastating’ probe of press
According to Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher, “the most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq” will be […]
Stick to the plan
The stuff rolling across the transom this morning isn’t filling me with rainbows and unicorns. First off, as I wipe the sleep from my eyes I realize that the Virginia Tech tragedy […]
