Category: Media
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A Pathetic Lowly Intern*
*(No, not pathetic or lowly, really, but that’s a line from a song in a movie I worked on a long time ago. Yes, a song.) I’ve been pretty light on the posts here while I’m working on a different web project. If you haven’t been reading the My Newspaper Internship blog, you’ve been missing…
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Thank Goodness For AEJMC Bloggers
Whew! For a second I was afraid the AEJMC Convention, which starts tomorrow, was going to be something I heard about months later, but a quick Technorati search shows that there are, in fact, bloggers in San Antonio doing their thing. Thanks, y’all. I’ll be there next year in San Francisco. [tags]aejmc[/tags]
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Free Like Freedom
Today finds me too vacation-dazed to really want to make sense of anything but SJSU bureaucracy (don’t ask), but after paring down the list of feeds in my aggregator to a workable 206, here’s an attempt to connect the dots: Jimbo Wales, the Wikipedia guy, Lessig’s guest-blogger at the moment, is running down a list…
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Pay No Attention To The Genocide Behind The Curtain
Salma Ghanem, chair of the University of Texas-Pan American communications department, writes in the Dallas Morning News: “Let’s hope journalism students aren’t learning from example.” She asks students in her introductory journalism class to define “newsworthy” and then delineates several “news values,” wondering aloud which values, if any, some of today’s most sensationalized stories are…
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Robert MacMillan Responds: “What Isn’t A Blog Nowadays?”
[BACKGROUND: Yesterday, Robert MacMillan’s Random Access column in the Washington Post covered the sordid tale of Michael Gee, an ex-Boston Herald writer who taught exactly one day of a class at Boston University, following it up by posting his drooling analysis of the “hot bod” of one his female students. Gee’s post was on this…
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The Washington Post Doesn’t Know A Blog From A Message Board
[UPDATE: I’ve been corresponding via email with Robert MacMillan, the writer of the Washington Post story I mention here. As soon as I have his permission, I’ll post his response. OK – the email exchange is here.] SO – A journalist teaching a class at Boston University does something stupid, it bounces around a corner…
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Lester Rodney and Disruptive Journalism
Lester Rodney, at the time a sports writer for the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper published in New York, was pushing for the desegregation of baseball long before Jackie Robinson pulled on a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Sunday about the now-retired Rodney, and their Back Story Podcast has…
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FoxSpace: Media Consolidation or Rupert Buys A Clue?
NewsCorp Buys MySpace. NewsCorp = Rupert Murdoch Media Triglomerate, parent company of Fox News, Star Wars, and the New York Post, among others. MySpace = Social Networking (or Data Mining, depending on who you ask) site, with bloggish functions, a little bit of free music flowing, and a bunch of old friends who seem to…
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Cass “The Daily Me” Sunstein Standing In For Lessig This Week
Sunstein is sitting in at Larry Lessig's blog this week, and the conversation has begun. I'm excited to see someone so entrenched as a counterpoint in recent New Media theory taste-testing the Aggregation-flavored Kool-Aid. Follow the thread, see where it goes.
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New Frontier Thesis
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” at a meeting of the American Historical Association coinciding with the World’s Fair in Chicago. The fair was commemorating the Columbian spirit of exploration. (It was 1893, and no one was really into commemorating the spirit of conquest…