Ain’t The Media Great?
REASON Magazine lists the Top 10 Most Absurd TIME Covers from the past 40 years.
A Better Way To Browse The Times
If you find yourself checking the NY Times’ website a couple times a day, as I do, then you’re going to love the prototype Article Skimmer. It’s a much better way to get a glance at what’s in “the paper.” To read about the thinking behind the new feature, check out “Sunday Browsing.” They should [...]
One Reason Why Fluid Imagination Has Been Slow
From Publishing 2.0’s Why not writing a story is innovation: “Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the new technologies could be wasted on news that readers don’t find relevant or interesting. To do this, they have to practice innovation-by-omission. That is, they [...]
I swear, it’s true. Bill Kristol DOES Suck Ass Cooties.
From Nora Ephron’s Thinking About Bill: “And slowly but surely, I became infatuated with [Bill Kristol]. How could I not? The man could not write his way out of a paper bag. His column was simply awful. Reading it was like watching someone dance on the head of a pin: his need to prove to [...]
The rise of Couric, Maddow and Brown
From Salon’s The Ladies of the Nightly News: “While pondering the meaning of this year’s 18 million cracks in the White House ceiling, we might easily have missed the shower of shards falling from other glass domes, like those atop television newsrooms. In the final weeks of October, days before what many consider the most [...]
It Was Bound To Happen Sooner Or Later
From the NY Times’s Christian Science Monitor to Publish Online Only: “After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to essentially give up on print.”
Well, maybe it’s because he’s a liar.
From TIME’s John McCain and the Lying Game: “It’s gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well. Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy … or, as the Associated Press put it, ‘McCain’s claims skirt [...]
Scary, and….true?
From Adam McKay’s We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose this Thing: “[This election] reminds me of playing blackjack (a losers game). You make all the right moves, play the right hands but basically the House always wins….Of course there are victories. The odds aren’t tilted crazy, but there is a 51%-49% advantage. And in the long run, [...]
Stand Strong
From Joe Klein’s Angry Amateurs: “There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, [...]
Media Bias?
From Frank Rich’s Last Call for Change We Can Believe In: “What Obama…should have learned by now is that the press is not his friend. Of course, he gets more ink and airtime than McCain; he’s sexier news. But as George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs documented in its study of six [...]
