Auto-Tune the News #10. The Auto-Tune folks come out with their next tune, and, like most of their
ouevre so far, darn if they don't make Congress sound
catchy. Sing about that turtle fence, Hoekstra baby!
posted by WCityMike
on Feb 23, 2010 -
36 comments
"..when a victorious chief minister openly
admits that he himself approached the leading newspaper of his state with money for “positive stories” after learning that the newspaper had signed a “package deal” with his rivals to print
negative stories, you had better sit up and take
urgent notice"
posted by Gyan
on Feb 12, 2010 -
4 comments
"The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility."
"The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News" by Chris Hedges.
posted by AugieAugustus
on Feb 2, 2010 -
51 comments
Fox News is the most trusted news network in the United States, according to a
new poll [.pdf] of 1,151 Americans conducted by
Public Policy Polling (a polling firm with a mostly Democratic and progressive
list of clients), the most trusted news network among Americans is FOX News, which was trusted by 49% of respondents (beating out CNN, MS-NBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC (though PBS was not included in the survey)).
The pollsters conclude:
“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most
neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy
Polling. “But the media landscape has really changed and now they’re turning more
toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
posted by washburn
on Jan 26, 2010 -
126 comments
“I am not a hero...I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more — much more — during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness.”
Miep Gies, protector of Anne Frank and her family,
passes away at age 100.
posted by dnash
on Jan 11, 2010 -
142 comments
"Maggwire.com makes discovering magazine content a personalized experience. Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles."
[more inside]
posted by allkindsoftime
on Nov 4, 2009 -
7 comments
DSLR News Shooter is a new photo site featuring the use of the latest HD-dSLRs like the Canon Eos5DmkII, 7D and Nikon D300s for news, documentary and factual shooting. By Guardian news photographer
Dan Chung, it's a place for professionals, educators, students and industry figures to discuss the practice and the art of cinematic photography in documenting the real world. For example, the time-lapse and slow-motion film of the recent
60th anniversary parade of the PRC. Other places to look for information and discussion of DSLR video are the
Planet5D blog, and filmmakers such as
Vincent Laforet and
Phillip Bloom. (previous
1,
2)
posted by netbros
on Oct 7, 2009 -
32 comments
Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a
talk at the Newspaper Association of America convention on April 9, 2009 in San Diego. He speaks about how Google and newspapers might co-exist in the future.
[more inside]
posted by reenum
on Oct 4, 2009 -
78 comments
The Terrorist Within is an in-depth look at the story of Ahmed Ressam. There's an interesting look at the lives of Ressam and other would-be jihadis and the way the authorities dealt with the information obtained about Ressam's activities.
posted by reenum
on Sep 24, 2009 -
1 comment
TARP investments yield 15% returns. Almost trom the start, critics characterized the TARP program that first began under the Bush administration and that continued through early this year under President Obama as
a taxpayer funded giveaway, while government officials insisted it was a long-term investment program whose initial costs would eventually turn a profit as economic recovery began. Now the NY Times reports that the program has already yielded $4 billion in profits, and a separate report reveals that related Federal Reserve loan programs aimed at economic stabilization have returned
$14 billion in profits.
posted by saulgoodman
on Aug 31, 2009 -
119 comments
Was it triage or murder? A disturbing NY Times story about the choices made by certain medical staff at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina. Long and not easy reading.
posted by anigbrowl
on Aug 28, 2009 -
81 comments
What you don't know about your friends:
The problem, [Francis Flynn, a psychology professor at Stanford] says, is that interacting with people and sharing experiences with them doesn’t necessarily translate into knowing lots of things about them. The main hurdle is the way we talk to those we’re close to: our conversations are usually meant not so much to gather information as to establish rapport and to bond - in short, to make friends.
posted by Korou
on Aug 18, 2009 -
69 comments
The NYT reports that GE has brokered a deal between MSNBC and Fox News to "reconcile" Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly, preventing further criticism of each other or GE. The deal went into effect June 1, the very same day Olbermann
declared he was "quarantining" Fox, avoiding discussion of the channel in the future. Mr. Olbermann, who is on vacation, said by e-mail message, “I am party to no deal.” Glenn Greenwald
breaks down the political consequences of the deal.
posted by mek
on Aug 1, 2009 -
62 comments
In a new essay entitled
Build the Wall, David Simon (who was a
Baltimore Sun reporter before he produced
The Wire) argues that if the larger newspaper industry is to survive, The New York Times and Washington Post must start charging readers for access to their websites (preferably done as a single action in concert with each other) —
John Gruber,
Dave Winer, and the folks at Gawker
disagree, and Steven Berlin Johnson argues that while the future for newspapers might be quite bleak,
the future for journalism and high quality analysis is actually quite bright. Meanwhile, the Times
is currently doing market research to see if it's readers would be willing to pay $5 a month for online access, and the Associated Press
announced it's intent to build a new news DRM system that will enable users to “
consume, mash up and share AP content based on rights”.
posted by dyslexictraveler
on Jul 24, 2009 -
128 comments
Auto-Tune the News #6. I know the Autotune folks aren't exactly
new to Metafilter, but, damn, this one's pretty catchy, and it's about the only time I've loved what came out of Rep. Boehner's mouth.
posted by WCityMike
on Jul 13, 2009 -
71 comments
