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Correspond Ends
So, did you hear the one about the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night? About how Obama killed even though the mainstream media had already declared itself dead? Obama’s best...
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Stand-Up Philosophy
You know, if Obama can take some time off work to crack wise about and for the press, perhaps it’s high time I got back to my roots and do the same. Ironically enough, these days it seems as though the...
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No Use Crying Over Spilt Ink
Hey kids! Consistent with my dialectic, ever-qualifying, lawyeristic approach (lawyerism sounds too hilarious not to coin), I thought I should note that the topic of publishing as such doesn’t have to...
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New News News
Julian Sanchez pithily summarizes “The New News Cycle” in far fewer words than I usually achieve. David Roberts tweets: “Every ‘winger-driven faux story now has two phases. First headline: “Faux...
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Politics and the English Language Games
What can we do to adequately inform, inspire action, or even incite fervor when overexaggeration has become the name of our language games? George Orwell’s seminal Politics and the English Language had...
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Echoes and Narcissism
Linguistically, “the media” means the cumulative methods of communicating information. Vernacularily, “The Media” refers to the entities controlling the means of communication that arose in the 20th...
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Labelgate
WikiLeaks has rolled out its newest trove of confidential material that many world leaders presumably wished you hadn’t seen. This one is being called Cablegate because anything scandalous or...
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WikiLeaks and American Grief, Stage One: Denial
Don’t shoot the messenger, but America is fallible. With that realization dies the Noble Lie of American hegemony: that we are always the good guys. Let the mourning process begin. Fitting within the...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paywall
Well, the New York Times has finally announced that on March 28, 2011, they are erecting their digital wall. However, unlike the Berlin Wall, the Times seems to have taken time to develop a fairly...
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The Second Draft of History
What stories can one tell these days that will impart any practical wisdom or virtue? What news is worth one’s attention and effort? How can one tell whether a currently developing topic is worth one’s...
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