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A regulator writes…
What if journalists were painted with the same weary skepticism they brush over others? You don’t have to imagine. Earlier this week former Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth (crazy name etc.), previewed a conference on media reform at Columbia’s J-School. Before your eyelids snap firmly shut, here’s a little outside perspective on us as…
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Jonathan Lethem in Harpers gets himself knotted up in the twisty world of plagiarism and sampling…(hat-tips we call them in the blogosphere)
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‘Reconstructions’ and illustrations
Tonight, the lead item on the BBC 10 was the story of a young girl who was tormented by her parents. It began with a ‘reconstruction.’ From the ‘reconstruction’ you might have thought the child lived in a privileged, well-decorated home. Is that right? My hunch is that it would be quite, quite wrong. On…
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What’s that coming over the hill…
Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes: “…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. Slate‘s…