Just a little nick at a time. Let it bleed. If you want a little window into the absolutely woeful performance of the traditional media in covering politics generally, and this election in particular, and the way in which the overriding imperative is to win ratings, just check out the last 24 hours. The traditional […]
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The Clinching and How The Media Fails Democracy–Again
Posted on 07 June 2016.
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The “Quote Approval” Phony Controversy
Posted on 21 September 2012.
You could not cook up a better farce in the world of transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) than the one that’s all the rage right now: the hand-wringing about the practice of so-called “quote approval”. In a nutshell, a transcriber of press releases talks to a source under the condition that the source can review the quotes before publication. But, as usual, much of the debate is missing the bigger point.
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The Press Oils The Machinery of Class Warfare
Posted on 02 September 2011.
I’m going to start by saying something entirely unoriginal: the traditional press has its head up its ass, and is thoroughly incapable of looking at itself and understanding that most transcribers of press releases (formerly known as "journalists") are entirely not qualified to write about the economy or work and, indeed, are oiling the […]
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Three Grand Myths
Posted on 26 July 2011.
Last week, I posted a piece, suggesting that the current crisis was really about us and the lack of a movement, not about Obama. A number of people reacted, in emails to me, particularly about the Three Grand Myths–and, over the weekend, I heard yet more nonsense on the Three Grand Myths theme. So, I […]
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SAG Turmoil–Update
Posted on 15 January 2009.
I guess i’m partly interested in the on-going saga at the Screen Actors Guild because I consider it my industry. And, as important, what happens to the power of creators in the increasingly digital information world does mean something to organized labor. You may remember that there has been a lot of turmoil at […]
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Wolfowitz’s “Greed Is Good” Defense
Posted on 02 May 2007.
How would you like to make about $200K to help alleviate poverty around the world? Turns out a lot of people like that deal–an astounding fact in today’s New York Times story that Paul Wolfowitz is using to justify his behavior in the on-going ethical controversy at The Bank. And this factoid underscores how poorly […]
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