Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch front page screams about how that evil devil music is leading kids to kill people left and right. Or, rather, how one kid may have been influenced by violent rap lyrics to murder four individuals:
Police: Lyrics may have played role in Farmville slayings
Investigators are trying to determine whether a suspect’s [...]
Geoff Livingston over at The Buzz Bin makes a great analogy - Newspapers Are Like Department Stores:
For department stores, many chains found their death in a trojan horse — the mall. With the rise of the mall, department stores were asked to anchor these megaplexes. But inside the smaller stores were more nimble, better competitors [...]
Jeff Jarvis challenges Journalists to ask themselves a tough question:
Journalism can’t afford repetition and production anymore.
Every minute of a journalist’s time will need to go to adding unique value to the news ecosystem: reporting, curating, organizing. This efficiency is necessitated by the reduction of resources. But it is also a product of the link and [...]
Pew’s 2009 State Of The Media report is out in all its gory details. You can read an overview here.
Charlie Gibson doesn’t get it either, really, and Mark Biggs calls him out on it:
Gibson began with a somber rehash of newspapers cutting jobs and going out of business. “The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is gone — gone,” he said with dramatic effect.
After blaming young people for getting their news online for free, he went on to [...]
Sen. Chap Petersen chimes in on yesterday’s Washington Post coverage on the lack of journalists:
Should anyone care if news reporting dies out?
That’s a great question. Not everyone is obsessed by the state legislature. However, on a day-to-day basis, it has more impact on the lives of Virginians than any other political body. We write the criminal laws, the health laws, [...]
The last week has seen a bombardment of articles from newspapers crying about how necessary they are for the sake of society and community. Two recent examples out of The Washington Post point out that newspapers cover the police and the legislature better than anyone else can ever hope to. In the latter, Marc Fisher [...]
Not as technology but as communication:
At a New Organizing Institute presentation this morning, former Obama new media director Joe Rospars (last seen in these pages talking about the importance of good content to the campaign’s work) made a really significant point — his department was NOT a part of the campaign’s tech team. Instead, it [...]
George W. Bush tries to go through a locked door - 9,480 articles point it out.
Barack Obama tries to go through a window - 1 article points it out.
Kudos.
(h/t Snapped Shot)
“Mr. Gorlin, 39, argued that Eisenstadt was no more of a joke than half the bloggers or political commentators on the Internet or television.”
There’s an open thread at Bearing Drift concerning media bias in this year’s election. Please feel free to head on over and share your thoughts.
Vivian Paige takes The Virginian Pilot to task for excusing their long march into irrelevance and taking a few swipes at the blogs while they’re at it.
What Gen X was bashed for, Gen Y is praised for, and X isn’t going to take it anymore:
One need look no further than the local newsstand to see the favoritism the Millennials have received. Whereas Generation X was routinely denigrated by the press, the Millennials have been compared to World War II’s Greatest Generation. [...]
F.T. Rea on Waiting For Macaca.
Disney’s Michael Eisner says the writer’s strike may be over this weekend.