The Internet

Media Morph

Charles Warner | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media


Charles Warner

Newspaper and magazine content will continue to be valuable and read; it will just have a different, far less expensive and more rational distribution channel -- the Internet.

Fighting Smears Begins at Home, Mr. Gore

Nancy Scola | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media


Nancy Scola

Al Gore, who's not a candidate for anything this season, needs to be willing to get up on stage and say, "You know what? Damn right. The Internet? All me."

Why Susan Sarandon Likes the Internet, but Doesn't Use It

Darrell Hartman | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment


Darrell Hartman

When celebrities choose to remain unplugged from the wired world, are they exercising their privilege to be more aloof than the rest of us? Or are the...

The Question Concerning Digital Technology

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business


Hugh McGuire

I'm not interested in technology per se, I am interested in the ways we might use it to make our lives richer and more meaningful.

Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

If Obama fails to embrace the report, he will be seen as ignoring his own congressional committee's findings-- and so knowingly failing to appreciate the threat of "radical Islam" and being willfully soft on terror.

Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.

Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.

The SAG Negotiations: Two Short Videos By German Actors Explain Why TV and Film Actors Have To Remain Vigilant

Michael Russnow | Posted 03.23.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

A better case could not be made for what's at stake for all of us who work in the American entertainment industry than a video produced by German actor Andreas Stenschke.

The WGA Strike For Dummies: End Game - But What About Our Future?

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

The writers' work stoppage has been our shot across the bow. And it was magnificently played. There's no doubt our producing partners know we mean business and now take us seriously.

The WGA Strike for Dummies, and My Concerns Over the DGA Deal

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

Once we accept a deal similar to the DGA's, it will be almost impossible to significantly improve it once we realize how much money the Internet networks are making and how little in comparison we are.

Putting the "Self" Back into Self-Regulation

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business


Stephen Balkam

What should and can the Internet industry do? Self-regulation demands a robust and comprehensive response which demonstrates that governments don't need to act.


 

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