The Ministry of Truth
Guaranteed 100% true. You can count on it. Last week, ‘citizen journalism’ (more on this term in a minute) suffered its first major crisis….maybe. A CNN iReporter posted an iNews item (lots of i’s here), that Apple CEO Steve...
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Really Scary Stuff! New technologies unleash changes that turn societies on their heads. These dislocations can be very disorienting. Even though the printing press was invented in 1452, its full impact was not really felt until the mid 18th...
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“and that’s the way it is…” Yesterday and today we have been teaching a VJ course at CUNY’s new Graduate School of Journalism.
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`’I learned to shoot at the Travel Channel Academy….why?…” Writer Dan Trigoboff, whom I was on the phone with this evening doing an interview for TVNewsday, draws my attention instead to the second chapter of The Hunchback of Notre...
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…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
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Sometimes it isn’t relative. Sometimes it is very specific… In a lovely new book, entitled The Canon, New York Times science writer Natalie Angier warns of the growing gap between knowledge of science and the real world in America.
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..today it’s oil….then it was bananas…. We live in a world in which our perception of events is informed almost exclusively by television.
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“….gimme a sec Vader, and I’ll be right with you…..” A few days ago we wrote about the rise of the ‘peasants’ as they took control of the media. As in the 15th Century, the nobility is pissed off....
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