In Wisconsin, the "budget shortfall" isn't simply an excuse to pare back public sector salaries or pensions -- it's being used to strip away labor rights altogether, with an eye toward eliminating collective bargaining completely.
At a privacy conference, one vendor said 500 million people were on Facebook. Then he paused and said, "Scary." In the discussion of the social web in this industry, all you have to do is say people are using these mysterious tools, and the fear is assumed.
While debate over sports often centers around which team is supreme in its sport, there's also simultaneously an ongoing discussion over which city provokes the most misery and suffering for its fans.
You'll often hear the argument, there is "no such thing as bad publicity." That would absolutely be untrue. Vick's audience on Oprah would presumably have been more attached to the family dog than anyone in the NFL.
Moving to an app model should be cheered by anyone who advocates for a la carte video. Under an app model, programmers could make all of the content from a channel available or have different apps for different shows.
Many top financial institutions are producing original video programming in-house. And we got an overview on the Reuters Insider by Managing Director Mike Stepanovich.
The alleged sexual brutality that Logan suffered casts a pall upon all of us in the journalism industry, but also upon us, as educators, as we send enterprising women journalists into the world.
Miss Representation, which premiered on Saturday in New York City, explores how one-dimensional, hypersexualized images of women in mainstream media reinforce negative gender stereotypes.
Our communities here in the U.S. are suffering in a terrible economic vise. When do we stop wasting money on this futile war and start getting serious about getting American back on its feet?
Of course Gene Sharp is a pacifist. Non-violent, passive resistance has been the whole point of his life's work. You might as well write that some people suspect Gandhi of being a pacifist.
Famous political reporters typically voice bromides about public moods or trends without probing the arsenal of dirty tricks the pros can use to change public perceptions.
For every reporter, man or woman, the decision to travel to a conflict region is a deeply personal one, reflecting considered judgment and often the input of loved ones, as was the case with Lara Logan.
Two iPad applications that supply news content to their audiences, Flipboard and The Daily, are highlighting the friction between new media and old, respectively.
You should not castigate Lara Logan because she's an "attractive blonde female reporter." She is a reporter who, while heroically covering one of the most important events of the decade, was the victim of a terrible crime. Period.
There is no excuse for what happened to Lara Logan, but explanations for violence should not be found in a religion, or in broad generalizations about Egyptian culture.
Colorado Representative Doug Lamborn's op-ed, calling for the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is truly one of the most disingenuous pieces of propaganda I have ever read.
In questioning the status quo and the standard political messages reverberating through the echo chamber, new and provocative discussions are being heard, which ultimately help foster a more meaningful and honest debate in the country.
Late last week, a still-unfolding leak story revealed a shocking conspiracy of misdeeds that seem to implicate a law firm representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an attempt to use hackers and falsified documents to discredit the Chamber's critics.
Shoreh Aghdashloo, narrator of the neoconservative-dominated "Iranium" documentary, answered some tough questions. The point, she said, is that Iran can't be trusted with a bomb.
TJ Walker, 2011.02.18
