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Sunday, July 11th, 2010Lebron, Part 1
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Legions are happy that Lebron is going to Miami. Other legions are unhappy and some are real sourpusses.* And, not to be overlooked, are the legions and legions and legions that feel unaffected, one way or the other, and would say that if they were polled (though it isn’t difficult to believe that, imagining their seconds of news recognition à la Andy Warhol, that many might sigh or gripe or offer critique to the camera/mikes in their faces because it isn’t everyday that a news organization is interested in what they opine).
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Former WORD Senior Editors, Alieu Sheriff and Rodney Sieh, a WORD African Connection
Monday, July 5th, 2010The short version:
Before hunterword.com there was theword.hunter.cuny.edu and early on with the latter there were Alieu Sheriff and Rodney Sieh, who, as teens, had been chased out of, first, Gambia, then Liberia because of their news critical of government practices and policies. In Liberia, when word went out that they were to be shot on sight … (more…)
FAIR Media Advisory: News Media Missing the McChrystal Point
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Advisory says mainstream news media missed major point of the Rolling Stone profile by Michael Hasting, that is, the damning portrait of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. And, according to the Advisory, Hastings concluded that the media have mostly “given McChrystal a pass” on several controversies and scandals in the recent past.
Entire article follows.
General Stanley McChrystal: Why? Why? Why? – Part 2
Saturday, June 26th, 2010If this writer had been thinking clearly, he would have known that there would have to be a Part 2. And maybe even a 3. Braggadocio definitely on center stage but there is more. Tomorrow, Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources, will feature some pundits talking about the McChrystal affair. I can’ wait to see it.
However, I still like what I wrote in Part 1, that the General’s mooning of the Obama administration was contempt expressed in act of desperation. Regardless of what others have, might or will say. And I especially like this excerpt from Frank Rich of the New York Times:
There were few laughs in the 36 hours of tumult, but Jon Stewart captured them with a montage of cable-news talking heads expressing repeated shock that an interloper from a rock ’n’ roll magazine could gain access to the war command and induce it to speak with self-immolating candor. Politico theorized that Hastings had pulled off his impertinent coup because he was a freelance journalist rather than a beat reporter, and so could risk “burning bridges by publishing many of McChrystal’s remarks.”
That sentence was edited out of the article — in a routine updating, said Politico — after the blogger Andrew Sullivan highlighted it as a devastating indictment of a Washington media elite too cozy with and protective of its sources to report the unvarnished news.
Love it.
Full Rich Op Ed – The 36 Hours That Shook Washington – here.
General Stanley McChrystal: Why? Why? Why?
Friday, June 25th, 2010
General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), described in several news accounts as being a fearless if not hedonis snake eater, did not cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face. Rather, what he did (and I believe I understand why the pundits offering sycophantic explanations about his aggressive posturing missed this occurring faux pas) was moon the administration and he did it because …
REBOOT.FCC.GOV Blog: Future of Journalism, Ad Nauseam Not
Sunday, June 13th, 2010By Andrew Kaplan
Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Delivers 2010 Commencement Speech on Future of Media, Excerpt:
The media reform movement, as always, is mainly focused on limiting the power of big media companies and on improving public access. Therefore, its main causes regarding the Internet are universal broadband access, so that everybody everywhere can have fast service, and net neutrality, so that Internet service providers have to continue giving every user equal access to every Web site.
Internet service providers, as always, are pushing back against the media reform movement—and journalists are almost nowhere to be found in the debate. Read entire blog here.
Reboot.FCC.gov is the Federal Communication Commission’s website for discussion on how to transform the FCC into a model of excellence in government.
GlobalVoices: Peruvian Reactions to Release of Convicted Terrorist Lori Berenson
Friday, June 11th, 2010By Writer Juan Arellano, Translated by Silvia Viñas
“The period of terrorism by the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) ) in Peru is part of the country’s recent history; a period fairly but not yet sufficiently analyzed and much less researched and accepted. Those who lived it hope that something similar never happens again, and they reasonably fear the slightest chance of its reoccurrence. But what happens when our fear affects other people’s rights?”
Read the entire article here. GlobalVoices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.
ProPublica Blog: Government and BP Unresponsive on Requests for Data on Sick Cleanup Workers
Thursday, June 10th, 2010By Marian Wang
Getting statistics on worker illness related to the Gulf oil spill is proving to be difficult, as federal agencies continually refer requests either to another federal agency or to BP.
Imagining Lebron James in New York City
Friday, July 2nd, 2010(more…)
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