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Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 days 18 hours ago.
In response to my recent post on the lack of coverage of the Afghanistan debate, Elizabeth of Newsy.com pointed me to a video clip on this very issue. You can watch it below or click here for the link:In the video, Newsy.com takes a look at the media’s ...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 6 days 21 hours ago.
For three hours on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Congress had a weighty debate on the issue of war and peace. Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic of Ohio, submitted a resolution to end the nine-year, $250 billion occupation of Afghanistan, a military operation i...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 week 1 day ago.
NOT A BAILOUT FOR NEWSPAPERS: The Nichols and McChesney Rescue Plan for JournalismThere is a real solution to what’s ailing journalism.The issue is, much like how it’s easier to criticize than find solutions, that it’s much easier to report on only ...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 2 weeks 16 hours ago.
There’s plenty of disturbing stuff in Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” What with the end of the world and all, death, destruction and despair, you can imagine the apocalypse is not a happy place. But the most disturbing part of this story, about a ma...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 month ago.
Near the end of January, in the newsroom at Newsday, the Long Island daily paper serving 377,000 subscribers, a reporter asked a question of his publisher. Three months prior, the company established a pay-wall on its Web site, newsday.com. The reporter w...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 month ago.
The Watchdog’s Deathwatch: American journalism’s decline has big repercussions in IllinoisIt is common knowledge now that the newspaper, along with an enormous chunk of journalism, is on a deathwatch. How much time it has left is the subject of rancor...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 7 months ago.
While the country continues to shift its gaze from a paper-based to a pixel-based outlet for information, something far more profound than a digitized transcription is taking place. Two-century old pillars of the fourth estate are falling, and experts are...
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