There was a tragedy in Kirkwood Missouri last night. A madman opened fire on a City Council meeting in Kirkwood Missouri, killing five people. That was last night. I was riding my bike through Kirkwood today, and I happened to travel past the Kirkwood City Hall. It was about 1:00 pm and the…
A few months ago the English alternative rock band Radiohead released their long awaited album "In Rainbows" as a free download, leaving it up to the fans to decide what they would pay, if anything at all. As someone who has had the difficult and expensive experience of distributing physical…
The death of investigative journalism is not the title of this paper, but it is the context. Here's the title: "The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism," by Charles Lewis (April, 2007). The statistics will shock and depress you. That the lack of investigative journalism in the corporate media world is a…
I came across an article a few days ago written by John Hockenberry, an award-winning journalist who once worked for NBC's Dateline and is now a fellow at MIT's Media Lab. Titled "You Don't Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC, this article is a…
The media can't deal with candidates that buck the system. Glenn Greenwald discusses three dramatic cases, John Edwards, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. On Edwards, Greenwald writes: It is very striking how little Edwards' substantive critique of our political system has penetrated into the national discourse. That's because the centerpiece…