Entries Tagged 'Media' ↓

Rollback in PressThink. A brilliant description and analysis of the Bush administration’s stance towards the press building on Ken Auletta’s and Dana Milbank’s earlier work and incorporating the context provided by the Rove/Plame affair.

a preliminary analysis and summary of Canada’s proposed copyright bill, aka Bill C-60. Geist writes, “There is simply no denying that the lobbying efforts of the copyright owners, particularly the music industry, have paid off as they are the big winners in this bill. The bill focuses almost exclusively on creating new rights for this select group…” This is definitely a file to follow in the weeks and months ahead.

Later…Geist has followed up with a Bill C-60 Users Guide that goes through it point by point. Good reading.

unpacks the incredible lack of interest that the US media has had towards the Downing Street Memo: Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!

Just now have I found out that old pal Craig Silverman has been keeping a blog that tracks corrections made by big-time newspapers called Regret The Error. A good record to have.

from Tom Tomorrow: “A small suggestion… …to bloggers who like to talk about how blogging will someday replace the mainstream media:
Stop talking about it in the fucking mainstream media.
Put up or shut up, you know?”

the only coherent contribution that I have seen supporting the NYTimes.com decision to start charging for content: The Times they is a’chargin’. He correctly notes that the Times should, in order to be successful, do several things to mitigate against the negative public effect of hiding articles behind a pay-wall. For me, absent those modifications the new policy is a negative one for both the web and for the Times - but if they were to take his advice seriously, I would definitely reconsider my feelings about this kind of thing.