The media-reform activist organization, Free Press, has set up a press-bashing site called mediaFail, offering minimal instruction about what constitutes a bad news story versus a good news story. Thus we must […]
Free Press' mediaFail site a bad idea from a good organization
Read a news story you didn’t like? See a news story you think really sucked? See any news product you believe represents a failure of the American news media (no matter what […]
Ten years on: the enduring lessons of Columbine
Part one of a series April 20, 2009: 11:19 am MDT Ten years ago a co-worker turned to me and said something that I’ll never forget, no matter how long I live: […]
Comcast to customers: We control the horizontal, the vertical, and your Internets…but we can't admit it
By Martin Bosworth The Save The Internet coalition alerted me to Comcast’s quietly rolling out new terms of service that codify what has been common knowledge for some time–that the company does, […]
Democrats battle Bush–and each other–over telecom immunity for spying
By Martin Bosworth Although this Reuters article does a masterful job of burying the lead (as Denny would say), the fact remains–the House Judiciary Committee refused to grant immunity to telecom companies […]
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