We Get Some Press in Murdoch’s Daily iPad ‘Newspaper’
Atom power Ultra-tiny processors portend future of cheap, high-quality video BY NICHOLAS DELEON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 A story that made waves in the science press last week could have massive consequences for an industry that’s already under...
Read moreTV is DEAD
TV is over… I am watching the riveting British Parliamentary hearings live as they take Rupert Murdoch apart. Fascinating TV. However, I am not watching it on TV. I can’t. No US TV cable channel is carrying it. Not...
Read moreFox & Friends vs. The First Amendment
Just the beginning We’ve been at The Guardian, a newspaper most Americans probably have not heard of, but a newspaper which is now on the cutting edge of the Rupert Murdoch scandal. If you are a Fox News viewer,...
Read moreThe Case for Public Broadcasting
going… going.. gone… There is a scandal going on in Britain. Nothing like this has been seen since the days of Watergate. A newspaper’s unrelenting investigative reporting has already brought down one newspaper, and it’s just the beginning. Before...
Read moreMao & Murdoch, Lies and Videotape
Before there were Flipcams… “Power”, Chairman Mao wrote in the Little Red Book, “flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao was a product of an earlier era. It turns out that increasingly, power flows from the lens of...
Read moreLook Out! Here Comes Everybody….*
Which way to iReport? Last night I was a guest on Brian Lehrer’s TV show. OK, I only had 20 minutes of the hour. (I had to share it with some guy who had done four tours of duty...
Read moreWhy Journalism Failed
The last bastion of Feudalism in the US If you went to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the odds are you could just as easily have gone to Columbia University’s Law School instead. Had you gone there, however,...
Read moreMurdoch vs. Galileo
And that’s the way it is….. On August 25, 1609, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope to Venetian lawmakers.  A few months later he would publish Siderius Nuncias, his support for the Copernican heliocentric theory –...
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