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Pense no Haiti, reze pelo Haiti
A brief post, albeit one I’d rather not have to write… By now, a day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake demolished what was left of already-demolished Port Au Prince, you’ve already seen the visuals, and heard the first faltering attempts at … Continue reading
Impermanent Press
If you believe NewsBusters (and I, for one, have difficulty putting stock in anything calling itself a news organization when its name conjures images of the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man), not only is “liberal bias” killing newspapers, but this is, somehow, … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged Advance Publications, business closings, Gannett, Newhouse, newspaper closings, newspapers, recession
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As the World (Re)turns
You wouldn’t think that the passing of a tabloid would have inspired so much press. But when the Weekly World News folded (pardon the pun) in 2007, sources as diverse as Wired and Reuters took notice. For 28 years, the WWN … Continue reading
(Don’t) Stop the Presses!
Seven hundred billion for Wall Street? Check. Another twenty to thirty billion for the Big Three automakers? Well, maybe. A few billion for struggling newspaper and magazine publishers? Don’t hold your breath. Running a newspaper used to be practically a … Continue reading
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
Books on music are always a bit of a crapshoot. Even the best-intentioned authors can deliver works that sound flat and uninspired, struggling to bring to life on the page what would give you goosebumps if it came through a … Continue reading
Speak No Evil…?
Update: an article today (July 2) on the website of the Asbury Park Press reports that the suit against Wikimedia has been dismissed. A story hit the web last evening to that effect, but not having seen anything to corroborate it, … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged Electronic Freedom Foundation, freedom of speech, lawsuits, Wikipedia
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John Heartfield
The Dada painters and poets aren’t exactly on the tip of people’s tongues these days. Styles and tastes change, and what seemed fresh and shocking in 1920 doesn’t have the same impact now that it did then. Hell, things done … Continue reading
Posted in art, Media, Politics
Tagged Dada, John Heartfield, photomontage, Weimar Germany
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The Golden Age of Wireless
The April 12-18 issue of The Economist has an intriguing special section on wireless telecomm that you can read here. The series’ premise—reduced to ridiculous simplicity—is that the technology has had an enormous impact on the way we live, work, … Continue reading
Radio Daze, and a Blog Review: WFMU
Maybe it’s just a byproduct of being in the New York media market, but it seems like radio is a fickle place. Radio stations don’t last, and the few that have seem to have mutated beyond all recognition. At any … Continue reading