Stello's Choice

§A DRIVING FORCE

Mar 28th, 2008

Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post has written a piece detailing the quiet pressure cooker that is Ben Scott.
The article can be read here.

Terms: Ben Scott, Free Press, Media Policy, Net Neutrality

David Bauder released a story on AP covering the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media highlighting the report’s underlying message: while the internet has indeed allowed previously unpublished voices from entering the fray of the echo chamber, there are less reporters writing original content or doing their own investigating.
An excerpt [...]

Terms: PEJ, state of the news media

§PUNCH THE J WORD

Mar 13th, 2008

Eric Zorn from the Chicago Tribune reported this morning that Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism may be dropping the j-word from its title.

His article notes on the dean’s late unethical method of reporting as a humorously fitting cause for the change, and the irony that a school that heralds open information is so secretive about [...]

Terms: Eric Zorn, Fluff Pieces, Gloria Steinem, Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Ms. Magazine, New Media, Northwestern Univeristy

§DVORAK V. KESSLER

Mar 4th, 2008

In the ongoing prolific squabbles over net neutrality, many knights of the laissez-faire school of “freedom of dollars = innovation” are inadvertently tripping head first into the debate without adequate forethought.
Enter Mr. Andy Kessler, who wholeheartedly believes that net neutrality is an inevitable bane on the advent of technological advance within telecommunications. His stance [...]

Terms: Andy Kessler, Bandwith Throttling, Comcast, John Dvorak, Net Neutrality, packet sniffing, Politics, Privatization

§THE NEW NEW NEW JOURNALISM

Mar 3rd, 2008

OR, THE BRAND IS YOU
Stephen Lendman:

Today, the media is in crisis, and a free and open society is at risk. Fiction substitutes for fact, news is carefully filtered, dissent is marginalized, and supporting the powerful substitutes for full and accurate reporting. As a result, wars of aggression are called liberating ones, civil liberties are suppressed [...]