From Tom Stites’s “Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?” (Center for Citizen Media: Blog: 3 July 2006):
Serious reporting is based in verified fact passed through mature professional judgment. It has integrity. It engages readers – there’s that word again, readers – with compelling stories and it appeals to their human capacity for reason. [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tom Stites’s “Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?” (Center for Citizen Media: Blog: 3 July 2006):
In late 1980s the late Neil Postman wrote an enduringly important book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it he says that Marshall McLuhan only came close to getting it right in his famous adage, that the [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tom Stites’s “Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?” (Center for Citizen Media: Blog: 3 July 2006):
And then there were [Walter] Annenberg’s political shenanigans – he shamelessly used his news columns [in The Philadelphia Inquirer] to embarrass candidates who dared to run against his favorites. One day in 1966 a Democrat named Milton [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Nicholas Lemann’s “The Murrow Doctrine” (The New Yorker: 23 & 30 January 2006: 38-43):
There is a memorable entry in William Shirer’s Berlin Diary in which he describes - as, in effect, something that happened at work one day - the birth of broadcast journalism. It was Sunday, March 13, 1938, the day after Nazi [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul Graham’s “The Submarine” (April 2005):
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From John Twelve Hawks’s “ How We Live Now” (2005):
Instead of resisting the Vast Machine, many of us have given into cynicism and distraction. Our contemporary culture has become a brilliantly colored surface without a deeper spiritual meaning. We care more about celebrities than our own neighbors. Are Nick and Jessica getting divorced? Is that [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From John Twelve Hawks’s “ How We Live Now” (2005):
In his insightful book “The Culture of Fear,” Barry Glassner shows how many of our specific fears are created and sustained by media manipulation. There can be an enormous discrepancy between what we fear and the reality of what could happen to us. Glassner analyzes several [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Sasha Issenberg’s “On Notice” (Legal Affairs: July/August 2005):
Just over 50 percent of Americans say they read the newspaper in an average week. That may seem like a formidable number, but it is in steady decline, down from 77 percent in 1970.
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Posted on June 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Sasha Issenberg’s “On Notice” (Legal Affairs: July/August 2005):
In the Middle Ages, the Crown designated a half-dozen sites in London where a herald would read proclamations from the king. These announcements first found their way into print in 1665 when the London Gazette, considered the first English-language newspaper (at least as we now understand the [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Dashka Slater’s “Lights, Camera, Lockdown” (Legal Affairs: May/June 2003):
The first two Alcatraz films, Alcatraz Island and The Last Gangster, arrived in theaters in 1937; the most recent, Half Past Dead, came out last November. In the 65 years in between, Alcatraz has been the subject of some two dozen movies and has made guest [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Caleb Crain’s “In Search Of Lost Crime” (Legal Affairs: July/August 2002):
In American cities in the 1830s, 1- and 2-cent newspapers for the working class abruptly challenged 6-cent newspapers published for merchants and political parties. As Patricia Cline Cohen explains in The Murder of Helen Jewett, an account of the 1836 killing of a New [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville (190):
As a southern gentleman [Lloyd Tilghman] believed there were only three events in a man’s life which warranted the printing of his name [in the newspapers] without permission: his birth, his marriage, and his death.
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Posted on April 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Edward R. Murrow’s 15 October 1958 speech to the Radio-Television News Directors Association:
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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