I think Clay Shirky is easily one of the smartest people researching and writing about the modern media age. I really like his answers in a two part interview with CJR, this part especially:
Or look what happened right when Mac came out. Remember when …
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CJR has a fantastic interview with Michael Hudson on the origins of the financial crisis, and his background reporting on poverty issues becomes extremely relevant. It's one of the best resources I've seen, with about a dozen links to background stories …
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Hidden in the intro to this BusinessWeek article — ostensibly about the health-care industry — is an jaw-dropping nugget of information. See if you find it:
If you really want to understand what makes the U.S. economy tick these days …
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I had covered the groundbreaking of the minaret — the first to be built in St. Louis. The mayor had been there to praise pluralism and throw a little dirt around for the cameras… Now I wrote a second story, which was maybe twelve column-inches …
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Summarizing Liz Cox Barrett's summary of the State of the News Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism:
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Over the last three weeks or so, I watched the first four seasons of HBO's "The Wire", catching up in time to watch the fiifth and final season, which is airing now. The fifth season focuses on a fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun and the role …
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Here's an interesting survey about the demographics and opinions of journalists currently working in Iraq. CJR has a good summary; I find their intro paragraph fascinating:
A new survey of twenty-nine Western news outlets with reporters working in Iraq …
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I saw this on Monday... Then, today, this popped up on the Colbert Report:
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Time puts Ann Coulter on the cover, and everybody goes nuts.
For what it's worth, you can read the TIME piece online here, though I haven't yet and I doubt I will. There's also some blogging from Eric "What Liberal Media?" Alterman here and here…
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From CJR:
That shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, since coverage of the Schiavo case has consistently skewed toward the emotional over the factual. And that has been to the advantage for those who want Schiavo kept alive. Most stories feature dueling …
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