Year: 2005
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Bricks and Baseball Bats Win the Day in Toledo
In the Media Law class I’m in this semester, we’ve tossed around lots of fine examples of the First Amendment in action, including your classic cases of the Klan being allowed to march, speak, and get harangued by onlookers. As I’ve said before somewhere, everyone has the freedom to be an asshole. The theoretical response…
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So what was this about anyway?
A Canadian J-School student asks about the purpose of journalism in the context of trying to nail down which elements of print carry over to the online medium. He chooses “to hold the powerful to account” as his top priority, but I’m not so sure. For me, it’s something like “to tell truths that wouldn’t…
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TIME Europe Magazine: Let RSS Go Fetch — Aug. 29, 2005
TIME Europe Magazine: Let RSS Go Fetch — Aug. 29, 2005
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Reality Check For the Paper World
These days, gasoline prices aren’t the only thing hitting all-time highs. Newsprint. Seriously, do you think this stuff…grows on trees? Well, okay, maybe it does, but at $625 per metric ton, every inch costs real live money. Meanwhile, the machines of progress are pushing toward real live e-paper and e-ink. [UPDATE: Siemens shows off e-paper…
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Information is not in itself harmful…
As an addendum to a comment I left on a post this morning by Prof. Dunleavy, here’s a bit of Harry Blackmun from Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976). “There is, of course, an alternative to this highly paternalistic approach. That alternative is to assume that this…
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Scripps J-School at Ohio University Online Magazine
I’m listening to a short podcast about speakeasymag.com, the Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism online magazine, which gives journalism majors, online journalism majors (!), magazine track folks, photographers, and Ohio University community members a chance to get their hands dirty in Online Journalism without being closely attached to the established student media. Check…