Archive for the “Media” category
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
by Pete on July 28, 2008
While I’m complaining about the New York Times… Someone explain to me who the crap thought it would be a good idea that anyone viewing the front page of their should get to see a person getting a hypodermic needle (…)
Yes, please make it difficult for readers to get to you content
by Pete on July 26, 2008
Grr. There is a pretty interesting video story on the front page of the New York Times website right now. The title is “A Family of Readers”, and the gist of it is that while the two parents read a (…)
Cognitive surplus?
by Pete on April 30, 2008
I finally got around to watching Clay Shirky’s “cognitive surplus” talk at the Web 2.0 conference. If you haven’t seen it or read the text, it’s worth watching: Yeah, I’m not so sure. While I’d like to believe that Shirky’s (…)
TWiT discusses the media
by Pete on March 31, 2008
I’m on the road this week, so not much time for posting. However, if you haven’t already, you should give a listen to this week’s episode of This Week in Tech. Using Eric Alterman’s recent New Yorker piece “Out of (…)
Because if it’s on the internets, it must be true
by Pete on March 27, 2008
In an article titled “Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On”, New York Times writer Brian Stelter explains, According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but (…)
Hulu goes live
by Pete on March 12, 2008
According to the Internets, NBC/FOX’s Hulu.com is officially open for business, so I figured I should check it out. At this point, the expectations for online offering from any major content company are so low that anything would be an (…)
Good riddance
by Pete on March 10, 2008
So long, Tucker: Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson’s 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election. The official announcement, expected tomorrow, will include (…)
Things look good for McCain, say people who want things to look good for McCain
by Pete on March 9, 2008
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Post, staff writer Michael D. Shear starts off an article titled “McCain Sits in Campaign’s Catbird Seat as Democrats Bicker” like this: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has sketched out an ambitious plan to exploit the ongoing (…)
Priorities, part 2
by Pete on February 13, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the current main page of the website of the New York Times: Pushed down below this extensive and prominent coverage of whether athletes took steroids are, among others, the following headlines: “Top Hezbollah Commander (…)
A plea
by Pete on February 11, 2008
There are several words that should immediately be banned from the news media and the Internets. One is “superdelegates.” Some others are “smoke-filled rooms.” There are any number of ways that the contest for the Democratic nomination could play out (…)