An overwrought Columbia Journalism Review column declares that the establishment media is a victim of big, bad bloggers and financiers who shockingly believe that complacency is not the proper response for an industry in a death spiral:
We the media are obsessed with our destroyers. We could even be said to love (or love to write about or edit) the many individuals who are taking us down. These include the mega-moguls and their hedge fund cousins who are or would like to buy newspapers in the raw, as well as the fashionable blog upstarts who are together profiting from and creating the end-of-media-as-we-knew-it.
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Today’s media gazing, in fact, can seem like an endless noir movie—a danse macabre with our assassins and those benefiting from our demise. We watch as they develop, learning a few of their tricks as they destroy us with better ones, all the time ceding our platforms to them.
You don’t have to be Anna Freud to figure that our fasci...
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A Spare Javelin is Always HelpfulFrom: brain-terminal.com
Post Date: 2008-05-24 14:02:21
Today’s Quote of the Day comes from the Richard Vance, a coach at Provo High School in Utah.
Coach Vance’s students were competing in a javelin competition when a newspaper photographer wandered into the area.
A javelin thrown by one of the students went through the photographer’s leg and had to be cut to pieces before he could be taken to the hospital.
The coach’s reaction ?
One of the first things that came to my mind was, “Good thing we brought a secon...
more The State of Free Speech in BritainFrom: brain-terminal.com
Post Date: 2008-05-22 05:13:20
The Guardian reports :
A teenager is facing prosecution for using the word “cult” to describe the Church of Scientology.
The unnamed 15-year-old was served the summons by City of London police when he took part in a peaceful demonstration opposite the London headquarters of the controversial religion.
Officers confiscated a placard with the word “cult” on it from the youth, who is under 18, and a case file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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more White House Raps NBC News on Iraqi “Civil War”From: brain-terminal.com
Post Date: 2008-05-21 05:17:43
In a White House letter to the president of NBC News , presidential advisor Ed Gillespie has some questions for the network that I’d love to see answered:
[P]lease allow me to take this opportunity to ask if your network has reconsidered its position that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war, especially in light of the fact that the unity government in Baghdad recently rooted out illegal, extremist groups in Basra and reclaimed the port there for the people of Iraq, among other signific...
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