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Microblogging-as-News Gets Real: Will it last?

It’s been one watershed moment after another for Twitter, as the microblogging platform has emerged as a  source for breaking news from the Iran elections to news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death, and a lot of smaller stories in between. In the past couple  of months we’ve seen the evolution of Twitter in the public [...]

Blogging’s great! So when do we @#$% get paid?

I don’t think you have to be a “new media expert” or a journalism scholar to realize that: 1.) The news business is in the toilet. 2.) The journalism profession as we know it is going the way of the dodo. 3.) It’s kind of the fault of the Internet. Anyone reading this blog certainly [...]

Planet Money: NPR’s digital stepchild?

So I was late to the game regarding the giant kerfuffle between NPR reporter Adam Davidson and Congressional Oversight Panel chairperson Elizabeth Warren. If you didn’t hear it, here it is, but to make a long story short, on the May 8th production of Planet Money, Davidson and Warren sparred heatedly about the Troubled Asset [...]

I got my propaganda, I got revisionism: Book Review: Che’s afterlife : the legacy of an image

Is art (always) resistance? The paradox is to wield Che in an attack on [capitalism], its critics must participate in it. They engage in the act of consuming Che. As Michael Casey describes in his excellent social history, Che’s afterlife : the legacy of an image, the meme of one captured moment in the life [...]