Negative Space: news
- 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.
- Evaluating Information
- Some things on the net are true, some things are not, and many are both. If you want to believe impossible things before breakfast, however, you can do so just as easily off the net as on the net. The best evaluation techniques will work for any information, not just Internet information. We have never been able to trust the printed word.
- The evolution of news to candy
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When you remove the news from the newsstand, what do you get?
- Murrow: His Life and Times
- Edward R. Murrow inspired generations of journalists with his reports from the London blitz on radio and, later, his reports on McCarthyism on television.
- National Desk
- Hard-hitting journalism from your completely un-biased (pinky swear!) reporters in Walkerville, VA.
- Tea Party vs. the news
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What a difference between the traditional news media (Google News) and what people are actually talking about (Memeorandum)!
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
- You’re Paying For It, Sucker
- Just what does this ‘highway’ metaphor mean, anyway?
