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We stand corrected…
As 2009 draws to a close, and we do our best, with an eye to a better 2010, to learn from our errors, the good folks at Regret the Error have helpfully compiled “Crunks 2009: The Year in Media Errors...
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The Challenges of Social Media, Part 69…
source As we titter over Twitter, we might note that it was on this date in 1925 that Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. President to have his inaugural address broadcast (on the radio). Indeed,...
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“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be...
Edward R. Murrow source There’s no denying that newspapers are in jeopardy; emerging electronic media have eaten away at both their audiences and their advertising revenue. But lest we count them...
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for...
45 years ago, four eminences took the stage at the University of Toronto: Irish actor Jack MacGowran, best known for his interpretations of Samuel Beckett; English poet and dramatist W.H. Auden;...
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...
Portrait of Edmund Burke– who figures formatively in this tale– by the studio of Joshua Reynolds While the 18th century is commonly perceived as the quintessential age of rationalist modernity, it...
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“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and...
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris, June 1977 Existentialism has a reputation for being angst-ridden and gloomy mostly because of its emphasis on pondering the meaninglessness of...
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“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new...
A reporter at work covering the Eichmann trial, 1961 [source] The [New York] Times is becoming a newsy entertainment outlet, à la Jon Oliver, with a business model more like Netflix or Hulu than...
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“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is...
What we talk about when we talk about “the mainstream media”… Everyone is constantly yelling about the mainstream media, and rarely are we referring to the same thing. Just take the recent whirlwind...
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“It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when...
ALBARRAN CABRERA, The Mouth of Krishna #60908 L. M. Sacasas on time and temporality… … I’m tempted, as I often am, by the grand generalization, and I will yield. Pre-industrial culture was...
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”*…
If an AI-infused web is the future, what can we learn from the past? Jeff Jarvis has some provocative thoughts… The Gutenberg Parenthesis—the theory that inspired my book of the same name—holds that...
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“One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid,...
A scene delated from the Chinese broadcast of The Big Bang Theory (Season 2 Episode 18) From our friends at The Pudding, a case study in Chinese censorship: Manyun Zou watched the first 100 episodes...
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else”*…
It’s all too clear that the fourth estate in the U.S. is in trouble. Indeed, the wrenching contraction of the field has become one of journalism’s most covered stories. Here, for example, Alex Weprin...
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