Archive for the “Media” category
When does he sleep?
by Pete on June 1, 2010
The genius bankster overlords who run our financial system really need to figure out some “financial instrument” scam that generates a fraction of a penny for every word Glenn Greenwald posts online. Seriously, the guy is the Anthony Trollope of (…)
You are not Facebook’s customer, you are what Facebook is selling
by Pete on May 29, 2010
Subbing for Matt Yglesias, Dara Lind is a relative late-comer to the recent bandwagon of Facebook privacy critics. Unlike most of the “Facebook is EVIL!!!” crowd, Lind takes the somewhat novel approach that it is Mark Zuckerberg’s class and gender (…)
The New Republic embarrasses itself yet again
by Pete on October 25, 2009
The New Republic’s Isaac Chotiner takes a shot at Frank Rich: Frank Rich, today: It would also be nice to think that the “balloon boy” viewers were the innocent victims of a dazzling Houdini-class feat of wizardry — a “massive (…)
Maybe we have too much long-form journalism
by Pete on August 28, 2009
Ta-Nahesi Coates has a post over at The Atlantic detailing his take on the “Long form journalism doesn’t work on the web” discussion that’s been floating around the Internets for the last few days. Following up on a post by (…)
Howard Stern + the Internets = PROFIT (?)
by Pete on August 27, 2009
Jeff Jarvis expands on speculation from the NY Daily News’s David Hinckley that Howard Stern could leave Sirius and go independent via the Internet: Indeed, he could. Technology makes it possible: We could listen to him – and watch him (…)
No one except us can cover news
by Pete on August 23, 2009
Via ThinkProgress, I was just watching a clip from this morning’s Chris Matthews Show in which Matthews and his panel of establishment journalists decry the lack of fact-checking “on the blogs”: Given the mainstream media’s disturbing habit of regurgitating talking (…)
Acting stupidly v. being stupid
by Pete on July 24, 2009
As we all now know, about 3% of the President’s press conference this past Wednesday night was devoted to answering a question about the Cambridge, MA police department’s arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. President Obama stated that (…)
On the (old) Media
by Pete on January 17, 2009
The January 9, 2009 edition of WNYC’s On the Media featured a segment titled “The Evolution of A1″. In this part of the show, host Brooke Gladstone interviews James Barron, a New York Times reporter about a book to which (…)
If you know what I mean…
by Pete on January 10, 2009
From the Dept. of Poorly Thought-Out Ledes: Economists say it is unclear whether President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus package is big enough and whether it would provide the most bang for the buck. Seriously? Perhaps the Times needs to hire an (…)
Out-of-Business News
by Pete on November 22, 2008
Apparently we’re all supposed to be very upset by this news: Out of Town News, the newsstand that has offered a cornucopia of newspapers and magazines as a Harvard Square landmark for more than 50 years, could close. The owners (…)