Chuck Todd has been "kept...up nights" by thoughts of Journolist -- and how it destroyed journalism because it allowed people who were liberal to have private discussions on the Internet about their liberal opinions.
Angelie, age 14, poses for a portrait in Port-au-Prince. She was raped by four men and two women, all of whom she knew.
WikiLeaks is a declared combatant in information warfare: high-tech, good-government vigilantes. The group acts as the consummate outsider, a crucial role in the shadow elite era.
The record labels want AM/FM radio to belly-up for beats. The future of black radio may be at stake, industry folks say.
If there is any takeaway from the WikiLeaks embarrassment, it is that we need more boots and gumshoes on the ground and fewer blue suits on computers in air-conditioned offices in the States.
Google is back in the software business as a producer of applications that compete with Microsoft.
In an ideal world, media outlets would ignore the trivial banalities of celebrity meltdowns and focus primarily on the real world issues that concern us all. However, the media needs to give the people what they want in order to survive.
Kantar Video will launch a comprehensive video analytics and syndication service in September. It will be interesting to see how the industry evolves with the entrance of this new player.
Oliver Stone must love kittens and puppies and rainbows. What other kind of person could possibly see some good in everything and everyone, like Adolph Hitler?
How does a reporter square that with the fact that today's communications, and the spread of terrorism, may result in them becoming what amounts to the first responders to a disaster?
The View is not necessarily a place where one would think to find the Commander-in-Chief chatting it up with a tag team of ladies. But that is exactly where President Obama will be found Thursday morning.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is ramping up on the public airwaves. That's why AZ Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) told me he is targeting the media as a significant factor in the escalating war over immigration reform.
Once again, America's political and military elite is backing a corrupt, ineffective and highly unpopular puppet regime in a far-off, unnecessary and costly war.
The problem with the JournoList scandal is the problem with a lot of right wing news: It's not happening on Earth I, where you and I live.
You know Rachel Maddow is becoming a big time player when the big shots at Fox News (Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck) start mentioning her on their programs.
ARTINFO decided to digest this tome of an ode on Franco. We discovered (spoiler alert!) the profile to be one of the biggest journalistic write-arounds since Gay Talese's "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold."
New York Timeswriter Joe Sharkey insists that he never called the country of Brazil "Most idiot of all Idiots." Nor did he call the nation a "banana." But, it is no laughing matter to Sharkey. He is being sued for $280,000.
The Koch legacy of shrouded political action, global warming denial and free-market anti-government anti-regulatory radicalism is finally, slowly, being dragged out in the sunlight.
What the WikiLeaks material reveals most clearly is the devastating toll this war has had on Afghan civilians. That The NYT chose not to emphasize this fact suggests a political motive to avoid discussing the human impact of the war.
Shelly Palmer, 2010.07.29
Robert Weller, 2010.07.28
