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Andrew Rosenthal, who oversees the Times's op-ed page, backed Krugman, and Bill Keller, the Times's executive editor, said that if Sorkin erred, "he - and we - should correct it, of course."
Hate speech against gay people is embedded in our culture. The most radical voices claim that gay people are a threat to our children and country. What many don't realize is that these messages are crafted by a well-resourced media machine.
Reading the NYT poll on the makeup of the Tea Party, the most interesting data was that Tea Party members are wealthier and better educated than the general public.
"Media has quite a big power," says Aye Chan. In a profoundly religious land, Democratic Voices of Burma's images of dead monks floating in rivers had a huge impact on the populace. Seeing is believing, as the expression goes.
The lesson on this Columbine anniversary may not come from the shootings themselves, but rather how the media has covered the shootings since the ten-year anniversary last year.
Google is making it easier to find interesting people to follow on Twitter. The Goog recently unveiled a new app that helps Twitter users find others who fit on their "social graph."
The audience demands and the TV professionals polish the effectiveness of the methods designed to manipulate our mind to the ultimate level. But how far can this go?
A little bloodshed is good for the news business, particularly if journalism professionals are back to shooting at each other instead of collectively gathering around their own grave.
I won a bet that Tiger Woods would not win the Masters this weekend because his rebranding would have been derailed if he had gone out there, automaton-like, and swept through the course to win his fifth green blazer. So he didn't.
The Senators who harp on the FCC's need to go to Congress to reverse a decision the Commission previously made know that Congress will never act in a timely fashion, if at all, to protect broadband consumers.
With CNN dying a slow death and MSNBC too small to be a strong enough counterweight, having one political party's semi-official press organ doubling as our nation's dominant news outlet is a grave danger to our republic.
The power of the realization that we're all content producers is that collectively it levels the playing field.
There's a critical lesson to be learned from the unholy trinity of Tiger, Donny and Nike because they share the most unattractive and counterproductive trait of traditional advertising: They tend to be stunningly self-absorbed.
Think of net neutrality as like having stops signs at a busy intersection to avoid daily pile-ups. Or think of Wall Street without regulations. Financial collapse was the result.
Andrew Breitbart is overseeing yet another dubious campaign, claiming that the Tea Party movement is void of any racial animosity, and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie designed to smear the good patriots of the right-wing movement.
Our justice system is playing technological catch up with the times. We're long past the point where a simple "do not discuss this case amongst yourselves or with others" will do the trick.
Please, anonymous commenters, know that I am not against free speech. If you don't like how I look, or you think I'm not smart or I shouldn't have a gift-wrapping room, it's all right because I have thick skin.
Beck owes it to his audience to "step out of character" and admit, on his show, that he's staging an elaborate hoax. His hero Orson Welles did it, and so can he.
While I have agreed that the cause of social justice has sometimes been politicized for ideological purposes by both Left and Right, I continue to defend the term itself as biblical.
Omri Marcus, 04.16.2010
Michael Shaw, 04.16.2010
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