Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

James Fallows talks about Andrew Sullivan and the “ecology of news” on OTM.  Here’s the blurb:
This month saw the launch of a multimillion dollar ad campaign meant to sink President Obama’s as yet unannounced health care plan. James Fallows covered the first round in the fight over health care in 1994. He says the [...]

The Net Effect on How We Think
Is Google making us stupid? Is it making us smarter? Have we lost our ability to concentrate? Are we more social or more isolated as a result of our constantly interconnected lives? Brooke takes a look at some of the research that attempts to answer the question: [...]

3/24/09: Presidential Press Conference: The President gave his second press conference, from the East Room of the White House, on March 24, 2009. (public domain). White House channel.
Transcript - President Obama’s News Conference - Text - NYT 032409

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News.
The metaphors we use to think about changes in media have a lot to tell us about the particular moment we’re in. McLuhan talked about media as an extension of our central nervous system, and we spent forty years trying to figure out how media was re-wiring [...]

Word Watch: Bipartisan
Obama promised to bring a bipartisan spirit to Washington. But this week he signed the 787 billion dollar stimulus package with basically no Republican support and the media declared it a failure of bipartisanship. What’s bipartisan really mean anyway? James Morone, a professor from Brown University, says the media might have a [...]