Matt Peckham wrote an excellent post Friday which touches on the status of this country, our stance on violence, video games and sexuality, citing Tom Brokaw’s remarks that video games and blogs were “cancerous.” Talking to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Brokaw reacted to the shooting at the Nebraska mall in a way that [...]
I simply could have not worded it better than Nick Daniloff in regards to the Northeastern University school of journalism not renewing the contacts of two of their professors, Gladys and Lincoln McKie. “This is unbelievably bad administrative management,” Daniloff told the News May 23. “I have to ask myself, ‘Do I want to work [...]
Thanks go to Bruce over at the Massbackwards blog for his shout-out about my recent Boston Globe news article.
Media Nation has some more coverage of the Big Dig tragedy.
Excellent article by Howard Dratch this week on Blogcritics about another anti-terror program by the government. This time, they are monitoring blogs for information that may be useful in fighting terror. In the article, Dratch quotes the president of Framingham-based Versatile Information Systems: The fact that the web is a vast source of information is [...]
Little doubt exists of the generational, ideological, and professional differences between two generations of journalists. The “old order,” shipping under the flags of the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal, clearly fears the emergence of new media and Internet amateur press in the [...]