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Carnival of Journalism
This being part of the Carnival of Journalism (and late), ringmaster Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and international legal systems to help the digital age, and especially journalism in the digital age, flourish? At the risk of making myself unpopular, in our own digital realm – journalism –…
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News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes
Said one director of investigative journalism outfit ProPublica when it launched (my itals): ProPublica may help lead the way to crafting new approaches addressing the market failure that seems to be taking hold in some segments of publishing, and that threatens a real loss to the health of our democracy. Market failure, eh? Looks like…
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Wealth, leisure and the attention economy in the 18C
A while back, Clay Shirky (Gin, Television and Social Surplus) invoked 18C England in arguing that gin was the enabling – and stupefying – technology of rapid urbanisation. Television, he argued, played the same role in – presumably, he doesn’t really elaborate – the suburbanisation of the US in the second half of the 20C.…
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Fadel Shana and flechettes
Reuters has released a video (see below) showing what appears to be the Israeli tank firing the round that – it’s claimed – killed cameraman Fadel Shana. The first thing to note is the distance that Shana is from the tank, probably a Merkava 4 with a 105mm gun firing flechette rounds. Flechettes? Flechettes are…