This Week With Jasiri X-Episode 3
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008A weekly hip hop track on the news. This week on the wall street bailout. Thanks SheMuses.Read the full story
Archive for the ‘media’ Category
A weekly hip hop track on the news. This week on the wall street bailout. Thanks SheMuses.Read the full story
Fifty Percent Price Increase for Both Daily Seattle Papers
Monday, August 18th, 2008And next quarter they will wonder why their ad revenue is down. Advertisers aren't dumb - they know circulation will drop. Read the full story
HuffPost Goes Local: Introducing HuffPost Chicago
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Kind of strange to me. I don't think HuffPo national has come across entirely clear in mission ... and now HuffPo Chicago? And what about Chi-town News, a small citizen journalism upstart that's got a lot of momentum. Very odd seeing stories about Chicago on the front page of HuffPo ...
Did NBC Alter the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony?
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and ...
Robert Novak To Retire After Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Monday, August 4th, 2008Just one week after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement: Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times' political columnist describes as "dire."Read the full ...
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Friday, August 1st, 2008A critique of the role that ABC News played in convincing much of the public that Iraq was behind the 2001 anthrax mailings.Read the full story
Tim Russert Dies Of Heart Attack At Age 58
Friday, June 13th, 2008Russert suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed Friday afternoon in NBC's Washington bureau. Russert was in the tracking booth, recording a track, when he collapsed. He returned from Italy Thursday night. His wife, Maureen Orth, and son Luke, are still in Italy.Read the full story
Colbert at White House Correspondent’s Dinner 2006
Friday, June 13th, 2008Stephen Colbert's courageous tenacity speaking truth to power at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner deserves another look. He was mocking McCain as a maverick before the Bush administration had rearranged the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. McClellan and Scalia are there too and some not so subtle jabs at ...
Free and friendly Craigslist has its dark side
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Local paper harmed by impact of Craigslist looks at dark side of Craigslist. Read the full story
Rupert Murdoch’s Newspaper War: WSJ vs. NYT
Sunday, April 20th, 2008When readers open their newspapers Monday morning, they will discover a Wall Street Journal fashioned to the tastes of the man who revolutionized media markets from Australia to North America. With its increased focus on politics, international news, culture and sports, Murdoch's reconceived Journal represents nothing short of a formal ...