Negative Space: media
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Amusing Ourselves to Death is a disjointed effort to prove that the speed of modern communications is killing us, but it ignores basic features of modern communications, such as the ability of both sides to respond; and to the extent that modern communications empowers the individual he sees that as an evil, preferring the bundling of individuals by self-appointed elites as in the age of Tammany Hall.
- The evolution of news to candy
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When you remove the news from the newsstand, what do you get?
- The gullible media and the chocolate factory
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Journalists, because of their background and temperament, are specially unsuited to report on science.
- Media balance at its best at CSPAN
- Too often, “balance” in mainstream media means over-simplifying to the point that right and wrong are given equal time.
- The Powers That Be
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David Halberstam’s tome about the growth of media power is repetitive, burdensome, it circles itself like an overweight prizefighter attempting to gain the advantage of the mirror, but like the aging boxer is filled with anecdotal glory.
- Shattered Glass, Shattered Illusions
- Great movie, great commentary on the DVD with directory Billy and New Republic editor Chuck Lane.
- Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine
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This is basically the story of how the Clinton administration gave the media an excuse for not following up.
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- Taking Heat•
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A great look at the Press Secretary’s view of the press from the White House podium.
