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Wikipedia -- Network (film)

Max Schumacher: "You need me. You need me badly. Because I’m your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day." -- Diana Christensen: "Then, don’t leave me." -- "It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. You’re one of Howard’s humanoids. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you."

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- ‪Russia Today = Kremlin propaganda newscast‬‏

"You are an old man… who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems! One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars! Petrol Dollars, Electro Dollars, Multi-dollars. Reichsmarks, Rins, Rubles, Pounds and Shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic, and galactic structure of things today." -- Arthur Jensen, Network (1976)

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Economist -- The end of mass media: Coming full circle

'In January 1776 Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense”, which rallied the colonists against the British crown, was printed in a run of 1,000 copies. One of them reached George Washington, who was so impressed that he made American officers read extracts of Paine’s work to their men. By July 1776 around 250,000 people, nearly half the free population of the colonies, had been exposed to Paine’s ideas. Newspapers at the time had small, local circulations and were a mix of opinionated editorials, contributions from readers and items from other papers; there were no dedicated reporters. All these early media conveyed news, gossip, opinion and ideas within particular social circles or communities, with little distinction between producers and consumers of information. They were social media. In many ways news is going back to its pre-industrial form, but supercharged by the internet. The mass-media era now looks like a relatively brief and anomalous period that is coming to an end.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Rupert Murdoch's Failing Attempts to Control the Internet Reformation

'In order to build a new world order, people must be either frightened or enticed into cooperating. It is a great deal easier to scare people than to bribe them, less costly too. But when people begin to tune ... out as they have in the 21st century, then the message is muddled and gradually grows more insignificant. Murdoch's properties are supposed to provide the conservative half of a worldwide Hegelian dialectic. Thesis, antithesis ... synthesis. Murdoch provides the antithesis, with relish. As a major facilitator of the one-world conspiracy, Murdoch is tasked with taming the Internet Reformation. But in order to accommodate the changing conversation he begins to BECOME exactly what his elite backers hoped to eradicate. To retain credibility he must present free-market thinking; yet this is anathema to his sponsors. It is a conundrum. -- For those in tune with what is happening, it is a great time to be alive, as the great conversation has been illuminated once again.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RTAmerica: War on RT

'The New York Times, NPR and broadcasters across the country are attacking RT for embracing a not-so-mainstream approach to broadcasting the news. Lauren Lyster fires back at allegations about the legitimacy of RT and their guests.' -- YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MISS LYSTER! AND YOU WILL ATONE! http://youtu.be/Kb26LaVuOBk

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- How The Drudge Report Got Popular and Stayed on Top

'With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is right out of mid-’90s manual on HTML, The Drudge Report provides 7 percent of the inbound referrals to the top news sites in the country. Gabriel Snyder: “[He's] the best wire editor on the planet. He can look into a huge stream of news, find the hot story and put an irresistible headline on it.” “Matt Drudge is an American original,” Mr. Breitbart said. “He does not rig search optimization, he does not care about the next big Web innovation, he just has the best nose for news there is. He gives people everything, every single thing, they want to know in a single stop.” ...there is just a delicious but bare-bones headline, there for the clicking. It’s the opposite of sticky, which means his links actually kick up significant traffic for other sites.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- How Global Elites Steal Resources & Technology by James Jaeger

'Media is the science of handling the masses. The very word "HANDLING" is used constantly, not only in PR firms, but in major corporations and governments. "How are we going to HANDLE these people?" "We are going to have to HANDLE the public reaction" are sentences that are endlessly spewed all over the New York mass media, the Hollywood-based "entertainment" studios and the Federal Government in Washington DC. Handle, handle, handle. That's what the power-elite, ponzi artists are concerned with in their daily lives. So, they figure, the best way to "handle" all this is to consolidate the media down to less than 10 multinational corporations (done); take controlling ownership of each (done); and then promulgate an endless spew of false reality to the general population. Now the public can be HANDLED because they have been pre-programmed to act in "politically correct" ways. Part of this handling is done by people known as "PUNDITS" those puking, round faces and blond bimboes...'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- NYTimes.com's Plan To Charge People Money For Consuming Goods, Services Called Bold Business Move

'"The whole idea of an American business trying to make a profit off of a product its hired professionals create on a daily basis is a truly brave and intrepid strategy," said media analyst Steve Messner, adding that NYTimes.com's extremely risky new approach to commerce—wherein legal tender must be exchanged in order to receive a desired service—could drastically reduce the publication's readership. "To ask NYTimes.com's 33 million unique monthly visitors to switch to a cash-for-manufactured-goods-based model from the standard everything-online-should-be-free-for-reasons-nobody-can-really-explain-based model is pretty fearless.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Struggle to Control the Internet

'...the single, significant problem that the mainstream Western media is facing ... is that mainstream publications are seen increasingly as providing unreliable information tailored to the promotion of one-world dominant social themes. The main difference between the blogosphere and the mainstream media is that the blogosphere directly confronts the phenomenon of the Anglo-American power elite and its attempts to create one-world government without ever admitting that it is doing so. The emphasis on Western and even world control by a small monetary elite differentiates the alternative media from the mainstream, which is under control of money power itself. In essence, money power and the media elites are one in the same. Mainstream reporting is thus not in a position to report honestly; that's not what they are about. They are similar in nature to the Federal Reserve, which states one of their pirmary objectives to be controlling inflation when in fact THEY CREATE IT.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I Can’t Turn Off The News

'It’s getting more difficult to know where a global news story stops and my actual life begins.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition: Dating episode 2: Help Jen Jen pick a man

'Our fans have spoken in preferring the demure look for anchorwoman Jen-Jen. She posted the photos you chose to her online profile and now she's got a stack of replies to sort through. Which man should she pick? As usual, your vote will drive the story.' -- Too interesting.

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Murdoch's Plans for the Future of the Internet

'Murdoch's problem was that he really wasn't in the publishing business. He was a propagandist. Even as a supposed free-market, conservative, small government type there was a lot he did not wish to cover and a good deal that his vast army of journos could not cover. Murdoch's publications wrote of smaller government, but never managed to cover the West's military industrial complex that spent trillions on unnecessary wars every year. Murdoch's publications covered business mostly from a corporate perspective, neglecting to address issues regarding multinationals and mercantilism—how the state favored large enterprises and facilitated them. Murdoch might even cover issues of personal liberty but only within the accepted confines of Leviathan's grasp. No discussions of anarchy for Murdoch. Nor even of the problems with monopoly state justice. Or the general dysfunction of regulatory democracy. This was his deal in fact, the reason he likely had access to so much power elite money.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: Keiser Report: 'Crash JP Morgan' Special (ft. Alex Jones)

'A special 'Crash JP Morgan' edition of the Keiser Report. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the call from Eric Cantona to withdraw money from the banks and at the viral 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver' campaign by Max Keiser. In the second half of the show Max talks to Alex Jones about Google bombs, naked body scanners and 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver'.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Salvaging of Mainstream Media

'It is interesting to watch loss-making publications in fact because one can soon guess which are the really critical ones and which are not. ...the three methodologies [assimilation, app-ification/obsfucation, censorship] will over time grant the elite-dominated mainstream media increasing penetration of the Internet. But in the case of the Gutenberg press, elite publishing dominance took about 400 years from what we can see. Now the Internet, from our point of view, has had a significant impact in 25 years; whereas it took the Gutenberg press about 100 years to generate the same. This means, if one can argue parallel timelines, that it will take at least a century for the elite to dominate and control the Internet. And in the meantime, we would look for considerable societal changes to take place. The Gutenberg press, after all, spawned both the Renaissance and the Reformation from what we can tell. These large communication revolutions can make existing society extremely unstable.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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WSJ -- JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater: The Animated Version

'“Soon, for TV, animation will be as standard as a color picture on a newspaper’s front page,” Mark Simon, commercial director at NextMedia, said. “It does drive the ‘ivory tower old-school journalism professors nuts that the one Asian news medium now penetrating the West is animation.” Simon said that the animated clips run on Apple Daily’s site, which is now averaging four million video views per day. “But in Hong Kong, every single TV station is now undertaking some form of animation. No secret, a response to us,” Simon said. NMA’s site boasts of its “lightning-fast” turnarounds or less than three hours for animated news features, meaning that its animators can get a story out in the time it takes to watch the entire “Toy Story” series. “Our production methods are unique. ‘Make deadline, not art,’ as one of our executives says,” Simon said. “It is also extremely important that we are part of a news group, our folks know how to make deadline and stay to a schedule.”'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Next Media

'Next Media publications are also known for highly academic articles which attract a wide range of readers, including critics. Next Media has often taken a clear and sometimes proactive support for democratic groups in Hong Kong. Some companies with ties to the government of China never advertise in any papers or magazines owned by Next Media. The bold style of journalism seems to trigger constant troubles with the triads with incidents of criminal damages at the offices of Next Media. Apple Daily and its parent company Next Media are thought to be pioneer of paparazzi and yellow Journalism in Hong Kong.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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CNN -- The blurry lines of animated 'news'

'Welcome to billionaire Jimmy Lai's newest gamble: Animated news. When news agencies didn't have footage of scenes from the car crash involving Tiger Woods, Lai's team raced to put together animation dramatizing the incident, garnering hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. The end product drew derision, with critics saying there's a credibility gap because the animated features mix real news footage with dramatizations of often unverified versions of events. Every day they churn out about 20 reports, often a combination of animation and real video, for the Web sites of Lai's Apple Daily newspapers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. "You have a lot of missing images, in the TV, in the news reporting," Lai said. "If this is an image generation or image era that we are in, that is a big gap we are filling."'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition's Channel

'Animation and Animated News, Made in Taiwan.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Last Psychiatrist -- If I've Won Cronkite, I've Won America

'There's a lot written about the causes of the failings of the Froth Estate: beholden to ratings, a dumbed down America, having to compete with other media, but I submit a slightly different cause: there's too many of them. ...there are news outlets everywhere, all competing with each other-- hence the focus isn't truth but survival, and survival means more boob pictures and a willingness to play by the government's rules because if they cut you off, you're done. There's an even worse factor in play: the multitude of news outlets makes you think they're all checking on each other, that even if one gets it wrong the other 19 won't. But most are getting their story from the same single source, the AP. "So where do we go for objective news?" I don't think that's the question, because the market requests it, and the way to get the market to request it is for all of us to be aware of the tricks and manipulations of media.' -- Level up to meta.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Gallup -- In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

'Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news -- with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in either. Confidence is hard to find, even among Democrats and liberals, who have historically been the most trusting of the news media. While 18- to 29-year-olds express more trust in newspapers than most older Americans, Gallup polling has found they read national newspapers the least. Younger Americans also expressed more confidence than older Americans in several other institutions tested, including Congress, the medical system, and the criminal justice system, suggesting younger Americans are more confident in institutions in general.' -- (Survey Methods ...a random sample of 1,020 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.)

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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PressThink -- The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

'Glenn Thrush, Politico.com: "The [MSM] editors couldn’t verify the source of the reports ... so they were basically left with proving veracity through official sources and picking through the pile for the bits that seemed to be the most truthful." Notice how effective this combination is. The information is released in two forms: vetted and narrated to gain old media cred, and released online in full text, Internet-style, which corrects for any timidity or blind spot the editors may show. -- From an editor’s note: “At the request of the White House, The Times also urged WikiLeaks to withhold any harmful material from its Web site.” There’s the new balance of power, right there. In the revised picture we find the state, which holds the secrets but is powerless to prevent their release; the stateless news organization, deciding how to release them; and the national newspaper in the middle, negotiating the terms of legitimacy between these two actors.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Observer -- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle

'When Julian Assange burst on to the world stage last week, people grappled to make sense of him, of WikiLeaks, of the new hybrid formed by old media – the Guardian, the New York Times, Der Spiegel – co-operating with a radical, activist, very new media, what the New Yorker described as less an organisation, more "a media insurgency".' -- (I read a commenter elsewhere describe this as the MSM doing free marketing for WikiLeaks. That that's their 'role' now. Ideological salesmen, selected to propagate appropriate leaks.) -- 'David Leigh describes Assange as "a mendicant friar of the electronic age". Like his organisation, he is global and rootless. Assange might be an arresting figure and WikiLeaks an extraordinary organisation, but they are manifestations of a phenomenon not its root cause. "He's a function of technological change. It's because the technology exists to create these enormous databases, and because it exists it can be leaked. And if it can be leaked, it will be leaked."'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Rap News: INTERNET: Leaks and Kill Switches

That last verse. Dude is the new KRS-ONE: http://youtu.be/iepqptjVwD4 -- You got dropped off the net cause the news you wrote was WACK!

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Alex Jones TV: John Young [Cryptome]: Wikileaks War Logs Show Global Intelligence Facade Of 'War On Terror' 1/2

Young: "[Wikileaks] needed the cover of these major newspapers for this data because they didn't have the confidence to go out on their own as they usually do. Once you get this kind of coverage in major newspapers, it's very hard to get people to go back and look at the original documents, which were tedious and hard to read, so the newspaper version starts to prevail and it gets a life of its own."

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Internet Forces Honest Reporting?

'The powerful US media-entertainment complex has done the bidding of the Anglo-American axis' for decades, or perhaps for even a century or longer. Hollywood movies often aggrandize Cold Warrior themes that celebrate the US military industrial complex while television is filled with law-and-order programs celebrating the war on drugs, glamorizing anti-terror activities, etc. The difference between the West's brand of media control and control in non-Western countries is that the West does not advertise it, and individual Western democracies are apt to pooh-pooh the reality and denigrate its necessity. This only tends to make such programs more effective. -- The only way that the power elite can hope to retain credibility for its mainstream media holdings is if they are seen as reporting honestly and credibly on issues of importance to Western populations. The Internet has forced this evolution on elite media properties and it is one to be welcomed.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- Can Robots Run the News?

'...to compile articles that follow one of the system’s pre-defined narrative arcs.' -- Efficiency savings at the Ministry of Truth

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Bernanke Defense - Fail!

'In our opinion, the London Times has gotten a lot more aggressive and honest in terms of covering the current economic crisis. This fits into our understanding of how elite messaging operates. As we tend to see it, the Anglo-American power elite uses the London Times as a mouthpiece (along The Economist newspaper and others) to present theses that it wishes to promote. These have lately tacked hard toward libertarianism and frank acknowledgement of the West's financial mess. In this article by Irwin Stelzer, we can see a determination to acknowledge just how bad things are. This is necessary to set up the conclusion, which is of course not nearly so rational... Stelzer spends considerable time being blunt about the fix the West is in – but then when it is time to offer a conclusion, he pro-offers a predictable power-elite dominant social theme of the wise central banker. From an investment standpoint, such articles deliver a kind of warning: The elite is running out of ammunition.'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio -- #274 One Day in the Life of a Newspaper (MP3)

Gisted -- It's important to remember that people don't necessarily understand what you mean when you talk about the State. People don't think of the State as separate from society, they think society and the State are synonymous because everything that's in the media is almost entirely derived from State sources or to do with State activities. So when you talk to people about getting rid of the State they really can't imagine any kind of aggregate collective or society or country as anything other than the State because that's how the collective is continually portrayed to them. There are two kinds of relationship that people have with the State: #1. Those involved in the direct cover-up of abuse who praise and spread information about the government's activities so that other people can profit financially or just involve themselves in fruitless debates about how well the government is doing. #2. Everyone else who averts their eyes from the abuse and pretends there's no problem.

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Slate -- What's really killing newspapers: They're no longer the best providers of social currency

'Newspapers thrived, in part, because reading just one edition provided only a few cents' worth of social currency. Compounding your earnings requires that you read the damn thing nearly every day. Ignore a couple of issues, and you get left behind. Newspapers are designed to be read and argued over. You've got to spend social currency to make social currency. Other institutions do far better jobs at issuing social currency these days. What is Facebook but the Federal Reserve Bank of social currency? And it's all social currency you can use! Like cocktail chatter, a Facebook posting—be it a link, a list, a photo, or travel plans—conveys the message, I am here. Listen to me. If skillfully wielded, a Facebook page can increase a person's status by attracting "cooler" or more influential friends. These days, you can't raise your status more than a bump by carrying the Wall Street Journal under your arm.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Alex Jones Inside CNN Attack Piece 1/2

'In this important interview attempting to link the Patriot movement and the Tea Parties with "violence", Alex Jones shows us what goes on behind the scenes of the CNN attack piece apparently set on demonizing tea parties and pro-Constitutional movements as "violent". Alex instantly recognizes the attempt to demonize him personally, as well as to discredit other grassroots political movements by the tone of the producers questions. The interview, filmed on Friday, was set-up by Anderson Cooper's producers, but so far hasn't aired. Was Alex too controversial, or will excerpts of the footage be used in a future segment?' -- Part 2. Woah! That'll never air. But then again, it just did – kinda.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Nobel Winner Stiglitz Calls Fed Corrupt

'Given the Fed's problems, Stiglitz's comments might look to some as "piling on." Perhaps they are. They also fit a pattern whereby various power elite insiders reconfigure the public conversation based on public sentiment and the nature of the rhetoric. Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV network may be the most obvious example of (what we consider) this sort of manipulation. Through the auspices of various commentators, the network has dramatically shifted toward conservative and even libertarian rhetoric as the free-market sentiment in the United States has become more evident and popular. This is not necessarily extraordinarily clever or subtle, but in a pre-Internet era it was not especially obvious. In a post-Internet era it is far more obvious because there are more discussions about it and because the shifts have been so rapid and pronounced. This is in fact how savvy observers of the marketplace can determine the sentiment of the culture and the level of power-elite paranoia.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Internet Icon Marc Andreessen: Burn Old Media Model

'The reality of the mainstream media is that it is meant to reinforce power elite themes. But the alternative media, which is not, has millions of readers. Therefore, it is too late for the power elite to stop the spread of "truthful" sociopolitical and economic information – much of it free-market oriented. Additionally, technology is moving so rapidly – and the Internet is so intertwined with people's consciousness and with corporate business strategies – that radically pruning the 'Net through selective censorship will be most difficult. At some point such efforts (which are certainly underway) may run into a judicial standoff. The resultant publicity may make further attempts ever more problematic. Andreessen believes the mainstream media is somewhat technology-phobic. But in fact it is probably a much larger and more terrible problem. By purveying lies, mainstream media has forfeited the trust of its audience.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert -- [1109] The Truth About George Osborne’s Bank Shares Plan

On algorithms trading online news: "In a year or two, the computers will figure out – without any human interaction – who to send the lobbying cheques to in Washington to go change the law to make it easier for the computers to do this type of trading."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: CrossTalk on Media: Brainwash, Bias, Agenda

What flavour your propaganda? State flavour? Soros flavour? Iliberal Liberal with a dash of Hipster flavour? Environmentalism flavour *SPECIAL OFFER HALF PRICE*? Godless Heathens! flavour? Irrational Nationalism flavour? Anti-Russia flavour with bitter Anti-China aftertaste? How about Neo-Con flavour with *FREE Soldier Toy (Made In China)*? You can't go wrong with Classic Fear flavour. BBC (Big Brother Cock-snot) flavour, perhaps?

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Danah Boyd, "Streams of Content, Limited Attention"

On information flow: "You have to help people reach that state of flow where they know they're making sense of the world around them." -- On attention streams: "The key will be to find ways in which content can be surfaced in context regardless of where it resides." -- On monetizing sociality (rent): "We've yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol for the internet." -- http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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RWW -- Notify Your Neighbors: EveryBlock Launches User-Contributed Announcements

'Today, EveryBlock launched a nifty new feature that allows its users to post stories to the site and notify their neighbors about interesting events in their neighborhoods. The new feature allows users to post anything from news alerts to questions and classified ads on the site. EveryBlock wants to give its users the ability to send out announcements for "every imaginable purpose" and describes this new feature as a "21st century community message board."' -- In a sane world – great. In *this* world – snitch, snitch, snitch.

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Big 3 TV Ignores Climategate

'Dominant Social Theme: Don't look now! ... We have pointed out in the past that a major way of killing true reporting is to ignore it. This is much different than heavy-handed USSR tactics of "making up" news. The Western way has always been more subtle, at least in the 20th century. Not so sure about the 21st because of the Internet. -- Conclusion: And what do we have today, after more than a century of news "improvement?" After 100 years of turning news gathering into a profession, of setting the "highest standards," of ensuring as much as humanly possible that all forms of bias were excommunicated from the news rooms? ... Why we have America's major networks NOT COVERING THE SCIENTIFIC STORY OF THE DECADE FOR A FULL TWO WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST REPORTS. Kind of makes you wonder where all the improvement's gone, huh? Unless it's on purpose ... Ya think?'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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BMI -- Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

'In all, the print news media have warned of four separate climate changes in slightly more than 100 years – global cooling, warming, cooling again, and, perhaps not so finally, warming. What can one conclude from 110 years of conflicting climate coverage except that the weather changes and the media are just as capricious? Certainly, their record speaks for itself. Four separate and distinct climate theories targeted at a public taught to believe the news. Only all four versions of the truth can’t possibly be accurate. For ordinary Americans to judge the media’s version of current events about global warming, it is necessary to admit that journalists have misrepresented the story three other times. Yet no one in the media is owning up to that fact. Newspapers .. now find themselves facing a historical record that is enormous and unforgiving. It is time for the news media to admit a consistent failure to report this issue fairly or accurately, with due skepticism of scientific claims.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Obama to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks

'...the signifiers of an elite dominant social theme is its imperviousness to reality. Climategate - the falsification of data over numerous years to "prove" global warming - has definitively arrived and the damage to the global warming meme is immense. But don't expect the banking and political class to acknowledge that. It is fairly easy for the monetary elite itself (a few thousand individuals) to enlist hundreds of thousands and even millions of functionaries to promote these dominant social themes through a variety of governmental and private organizations (and public schooling as well). But ultimately, in order for these themes to gain traction, the promotions themselves (for that is what they are) must reach a receptive public. These days, the Internet is exposing each of these promotions. When the credibility of these promotions is eroded, then they cease to work as planned.' -- FAIL

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mediactive -- Toward a Slow-News Movement

'Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of what journalists call “breaking news” into the categories of gossip or, in the words of a scientist friend, “interesting if true.” That is, even though I gobble up “the latest” from a variety of sources, the closer the information is in time to the actual event, the more I assume it’s unreliable if not false. It’s my own version of “slow news”. ...the advent of 1,440 minute news cycle (should we call it the 86,400 second news cycle?), which brings with it an insatiable appetite for something new to talk about, should literally give us pause. Again and again, we’ve seen that initial assumptions can be grossly untrustworthy. ...Clay Shirky (also a friend) observed recently — in a Tweet, no less — that “fact-checking is way down, and after-the-fact checking is way WAY up.”'

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Marginal Utility Annex -- Filtering information to suit the self

Reminiscent of McLuhan's insight that people dress themselves in newspapers rather than read them. -- 'Information can now be a matter of facts, data, opinions, or retail purchases -- anything that could be deployed in signaling. The goal is not to become informed so much as to signal a tentative, tactical self in the marketplace of identity. Choice in informing oneself is now driven by the social-networking self (the self that can be ranked and archived and broadcast to ever-more people), which covertly serves the ends of the corporations that control those networks. Less important to be informed than to know the passwords to admission into chosen hierarchies structured in networks online.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Obama Violates the Constitution...

WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST FIGHT IN PEACE

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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naked capitalism -- MSM Reporting as Propaganda (No One Minds Our New Financial Masters Edition)

'[The] “you are in a minority, you are wrong” message DOES dissuade a lot of people. It is remarkably poisonous. And it discourages people from taking concrete action.' -- Comment: craazyman: "The issues of central banking, credit, regulation and capital ratios are so esoteric and so remote that few Americans can really build a world view around them. Not out of lack of intelligence but simply because it’s a completely foreign language. There is nothing in this crisis to grab on to — intellectually and ideologically — for most people. Just a stewing frustrated rage that something isn’t right with the big picture. There’s no center, no point of communal traction that could be sloganeered into a reference point to rally around. And so people acquiesce to a state of affairs that they know is messed up, but they don’t know quite why or what to do about it – other than tune out the morons on TV and try to survive the night in the jungle." -- Blurtman: "The Depression Will Not Be Televised."

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Newsy -- Market Manipulation

'Media sources are questioning who they can trust with regards to the state of the financial market one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.'

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Wired.com -- Newsy: The News Is Broken, But We Can Fix It

Newsy [creates] short video clips with their own reporters highlighting how various sources reported the same news item. The sources comprise a gamut of news organizations and blogs around the world, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ABC, The New York Times and Fox News. The service’s core demographic is presumably adventurous news junkies who think they can gain a better understanding of what they may already think they know well by seeing it though a different prism. -- “The media is losing credibility in peoples’ minds, and one of the reasons [for that] is this myth that people are only interested in hearing their version of the story. We are interested in hitting what I consider to be the larger percentage of the population, who understand that we live in a global marketplace…. The person who is paying attention to [the news] on a global basis and is paying attention to multiple sources and multiple perspectives will probably have a competitive advantage over the person who isn’t.”'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- An Open Letter To The Financial Media

#1. Anonymous speech is not a crime. #3. The era of personality-centric media needs to end- quickly, and (hopefully) painfully. Your shrill cries of "coward" in the face of anonymous or pseudonymous authors somehow implies that narcissism is equivalent to bravery. #4. You can't fight a dead model. It is not our fault or our problem that your business model is dead. We didn't kill it. You did. You killed it when you hired an audio producer to dub in dramatic music in times of financial crisis. You killed it when you started paying someone six-figures to create eye-catching graphics. Every dollar you spent on this nonsense was a dollar you took away from the newsroom. Is it any wonder that reporters at the Wall Street Journal are paid shameful trifles while "the talent" (for the unwashed, we mean the TV anchors) rival investment banking paychecks? -- ...you have hauled your audience down with you into the blackness of personality-dependence addiction.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- How The World Works: National Journalism is Dead

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

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The Last Psychiatrist -- This Onion Clip Is Hilarious; Now Let Me Tell You Why It's Scary

'The news doesn't just influence our values. It changes the way we think so that certain values become inevitable.' -- Comment: Joseph Bergevin: "I agree that our reality is one of convenience more than comprehension, but I don't see a way around this. People don't care about truth, they care about other people. If an effort or cost doesn't advance their esteem with others, most people don't see its value. You just can't make them care about things they don't - only sell it in terms of what they do."

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Atlantic Online -- The Story Behind the Story by Mark Bowden

'With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition ... [the] goal is not to educate the public but to win. -- ...speaking wholly for himself, without fear or favor. This is what gives reporters the power to stir up trouble wherever they go. They can shake preconceptions and poke holes in presumption. They can celebrate the unnoticed and puncture the hyped. They can, as the old saying goes, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. The honest, disinterested voice of a true journalist carries an authority that no self-branded liberal or conservative can have. Journalism, done right, is enormously powerful precisely because it does not seek power. It seeks truth. Those who forsake it to shill for a product or a candidate or a party or an ideology diminish their own power.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Wall Street Examiner -- Forbes Polls the Wackosphere and Gets An Earful

'The media is fond of saying that no one in the mainstream saw this coming except Roubini. How stupid is this? The media is the sole decision maker about who we get to pay attention to. If they feature only liars and fools, then of course it will seem that no one saw this coming. And they feature almost entirely liars, fools, and criminal manipulators. Let’s consider who got this right in addition to Roubini. [A long list of truthers] Why did we almost never see these guys on the tube or in print. And why, when we did see them, was the usual purpose to ridicule and harass them? Because the media was and is a co-conspirator, witting or unwitting, with the Wall Street criminal distribution machine. The media is populated by conformist morons, too fat and lazy, too coddled by their Wall Street sponsors to be bothered by anything so mundane as to search for the truth. Only the mainstream infomercial media didn’t get it, because they are, after all, on the payroll of the Wall Street Mob.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Newsless -- The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get

'As long as the news is structured solely around what just happened, journalists are going to be fighting a rough battle. With a latest-news-only approach, we stoke demand for journalism by trying to snag people’s attention with each new development. There’s another way, one that leads to a more informed and more loyal public, and allows us to do better work. It involves: #Enlarging the market for journalism by making it easier for more people to understand the longstanding facts behind each story. #Increasing the appeal of journalism by letting folks in on the details of our quest to uncover the truth. #Expanding the appetite for journalism by explaining what we don’t know, and what we’re working to find out. -- As news consumers, we should be demanding these things as well. After all, right now we’re only getting the lamest part of the story.' -- What? Who? When? Where? How? and Why?

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Big Money -- Huffington Post + Facebook = the Future of Journalism

'Everybody knows what everybody’s reading, but nobody necessarily has to talk about it. A layer of news has been placed on top of the social network. Now not only can you know what your freshman-year roommate did on Friday night, you also can find out what she read right before she left the house. The point of reading news is not just to keep abreast about what’s happening in the world, it’s to keep up with what your friends know is happening in the world. Reading and watching news is an inherently social process; to have a debate, you have to have a shared set of facts. -- Making Facebook the aggregator of the future has all sorts of implications about how news penetrates certain social groups. Will demographics become even more hermetic in their thinking and news-gathering than they already are? How will folks get information from outside their social group if all news becomes social?

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Why Did No One Inform Us Of The Imminent Death Of The American Newspaper Industry?

'It appears that in America the very business of published news is in the midst of widespread atrophy and now carries forward as does a sickly and aging man, coughing up blood and gasping for breath and bearing the pronounced stench of inevitable failure. Disloyal Americans! Your obsession with personal liberty has been a burden on your nation's success for generations, and now you sit there like livestock as an entire industry falls to dust around you—the very industry upon which you construct your imaginary foundation of free speech! Why did no one inform us of this? Submission is deficient in this culture of indolence, where citizens would rather have the unmitigated thoughts of others poured into their heads by the Internet than read diligently the printed word, as decent people do ...take notice: the Onion newspaper is for sale.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Max Keiser The Truth About TWITTER 2/6

'In the twittersphere, if you just take the tweetstream and put it on Fox News, people are going to be tweeting and looking at their own tweets and making assumptions on their own tweets in this divine narcissistic loop of ego destruction and id aggrandizement to the point where all information to do with self-preservation beyond the next 5 minutes is discounted as having no meaning; so all science, all religion, all philosophy, all the body of knowledge accumulated is meaningless in the twittersphere which is merely an open nerve that's being poked at by the aberant nature of individuals whose illnesses are being carried on the mainstream networks as "news".'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired UK -- The unstoppable Google

'“The internet was not designed to be a disruption-free zone. The internet was designed to connect the world. In every industry it’s touched, it’s done that.” -- He is, however, optimistic that the traditional news business can be saved. “It will certainly be saved, but it will be in a somewhat different form. The fundamental problem is the news industry has this strange bargain where the traditional print ads and classifieds paid for investigative reporting, which was highly valuable and very expensive. But it’s very hard to advertise against ‘murderer’ or ‘war’.” He laughs. “So it’s a funny kind of packaging problem."'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Newsnight: Has internet journalism come of age?

"In light of the explosion of citizen journalism in Iran, Jeremy Paxman asks Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Anne McElvoy of the Evening Standard if internet journalism has come of age." -- Really good interview

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Max Keiser -- If Iraq Was Main Stream Media's Failure, Will Iran Be Social Network Media's Failure?

'"Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual tweeters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Bloggers at several levels who should have been challenging twitterers and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops onto the homepage. Accounts of Iranian protesters were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ousted. Tweets based on dire claims about Iran tended to get prominent homepage display, while follow-up tweets (and on the ground articles) that called the original tweets into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all." -- ...a healthy democracy needs also to have a dispassionate journalism that is able to question the motives of sources....even when that leads to discovery of information that is terribly inconvenient to our own assumptions or to the geo-politcal outcomes we as individuals may desire.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Max Keiser -- [1042] The Truth About Markets (27 June 2009)

On twitter stampedes feedbacking volatility markets. -- Subscribe to the herdfeed. Bringing you falseflags daily.

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Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- 23 June 2009: "Who is the more authentic victim of violence?"

"By conflating the murder of an Iranian protester with the assault of a onetime independent celebrity gossipmonger, Carles suggests that without institutions determining what should be considered significant -- a bureau of newsification, perhaps -- a dangerous flattening of all events into trivia ensues... Everything and nothing becomes worthy of our limited attention; left to our own devices we try to generate parameters for what to comprehend, but these are doomed to be woefully inadequate, generally misguided, hopelessly skewed by our desire to flatter or distract ourselves."

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Who is the more authentic victim of violence?

"Feel like the downside of ’social media’ is that u can’t really tell what is important, and what is just a meme, since it is on the internet. It’s kinda weird how news is becoming like indie music–we can’t tell the difference between ‘whatz hyped’ and ‘what is actually important/relevant.’ Feel like there’s a huge burden on me to sort through this kind of stuff, and I’m not sure if I’m prepared for it. h8 technology. Who is the more authentic victim of violence?"

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NewsCred Blog -- Twitter Litter: The Benefits and Risks of Contemporary Citizen Journalism

'...we should also be conscious of the journalistic dangers of depending solely on the tweets and blog posts of inexperienced, and oftentimes politically biased, citizens on the ground. In the last 48 hours alone, the internet has been flooded with misinformation about the political turmoil in Iran. I have personally read widely differing accounts on the number of protesters and casualties at demonstrations, the percentage of fraudulent votes, the personal damage inflicted in university dorms etc… While major news sources are pressured into some degree of due diligence and fact checking before publishing information, citizen journalists are not held accountable for their contributions. -- If we cannot find a way to verify citizen reports for factual accuracy, or provide some independent assessments of the quality of news they are disseminating, then the risk is that all citizen reporting from the field will be discredited simply by virtue of it being written by ordinary citizens.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election

'“...appealed to the media not to use Twitter names because, they say, doing so could put people’s lives in danger.” One of the difficulties of asking us to not identify our anonymous sources is that, given how easy it is to stage hoaxes on Twitter, we have tried to identify those feeds that seem most reliable and we have reason to believe are actually coming to us from inside Iran. In other words we have tried to point only to feeds that have established a reputation for accuracy in the past few days. That said, it is entirely likely that the authorities in Iran may well be monitoring these Twitter feeds themselves and we will refrain from identifying individual feeds from now on.' -- With no verifiable usernames and the spread of Tehran timezone spoofings, it is '...impossible for journalists to trust that any Twitter feeds are in fact coming from inside Iran.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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American Journalism Review -- The Twitter Explosion

#twitter 'Twitter "works best in situations where the story is changing so fast that the mainstream media can't assemble all the facts at once," says Craig Stoltz. "The plane crash, the riot, the political event—these are the kinds of stories where time is important and the facts are scattered." -- In fact, Twitter can be a serious aid in reporting. It can be a living, breathing tip sheet for facts, new sources and story ideas. It can provide instantaneous access to hard-to-reach newsmakers, given that there's no PR person standing between a reporter and a tweet to a government official or corporate executive. It can also be a blunt instrument for crowdsourcing. When a vacant building collapsed in late April, New York Times reporters put out the Twitter equivalent of an APB: "Seeking any eyewitnesses to Lower Manhattan building collapse." Imagine the torrent of data that would have been available to the Times had Twitter been around on the morning of September 11, 2001.' -- 'Twitteur'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Response To Opinions Of Our Uninformed Viewers

"Viewer Voices: The Onion News Network's Brandon Armstrong responds to viewers' emails, texts, and chats--no matter how inane."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Reporters Blow Up Plane, Expose Security Lapses

"271 are dead after an Onion News Network Special Investigative Report on airport security."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Software Indicates Missing Child Likely A Prostitute By Now

"Today Now! utilizes computer technology to show a mother how rampant drug use and prostitution has ravaged her little girl's body."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 4

"Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs, taking a look at how graphics have morphed over the years from modest explaining devices to shouty, scary, video game-style extravaganzas. Brooker also charts the way the media handled both the politics and the protests of the G20 summit in London, while Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, vents his anger over its coverage of science stories." -- *sigh*

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Science Fiction in the News -- Kindle Orwellian Nightmare

"Consider what might happen if a scholar releases a book on radical Islam exclusively in a digital format. The US government, after reviewing the work, determines that certain passages amount to national security threat, and sends Amazon and the publisher national security letters demanding the offending passages be removed. Now not only will anyone who purchases the book get the new, censored copy, but anyone who had bought the book previously and then syncs their Kindle with Amazon—to buy another book, pay a bill, whatever—will, probably unknowingly, have the old version replaced by the new, “cleaned up” version on their device. The original version was never printed, and now it’s like it didn’t even exist. What’s more, the government now has a list of everyone who downloaded both the old and new versions of the book."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Adam Curtis: The Rise of Oh Dearism in Television News

"Because the news had given up reporting them as political struggles, it meant there was now no way to understand why these terrible events were happening. And instead political conflicts around the world are now portrayed to us as simple illustrations of the mindless cruelty of the human race, about which nothing can be done, and to which the only response is, 'Oh dear.'"

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 3: Adam Curtis: The Rise of Oh Dearism in Television News

'Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs, looking at how news anchors and their styles have changed over the years and reflecting on how they do it over in America. Plus, a short film by Power of Nightmares creator Adam Curtis, a look at what's happening with the war against terror and a poem by Tim Key.'

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 2

'Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs. In charting the rise of the public's role in making the news via vox pops and mobile phone footage, Brooker examines the good, the bad and the absurd in citizen journalism. Plus, reviews of two big stories making the news, controversial authored pieces, a poem and much more.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 1

'Charlie Brooker returns to train his sights firmly on news and current affairs. He looks at the news's obsession with the credit crunch, and the potty levels it has reached. Nick Davies authors a piece about the influence the PR industry has over the news and Tim Key performs a poem.' -- Vids on YouTube too

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Prospect Magazine -- 'Clickstream journalism' by Andrew Currah

'In their thirst for feedback, news sites now feature provocative league tables, ranking stories by “most clicked” or “most emailed.” With exceptions, the rankings are dominated by those that encapsulate the weirder, more idiosyncratic aspects of human existence, at the expense of serious but more abstract issues... As newspaper circulation figures fall sharply it’s only logical for publishers to huddle under an umbrella of popular stories. By reflecting the interests of the crowd, they can attract millions of eyeballs and more advertising. This process, in turn, artificially narrows news around a handful of “tent pole” stories... Stories that need to be found, developed and verified by an international network of permanent staff are expensive by comparison. ...journalists have long been “our eyes on the state, our check on private abuses, our civic alarm systems.” New technologies offer a great opportunity but, if mishandled, the future of civil society is in peril.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mother Jones -- How Could 9,000 Business Reporters Blow It?

'Increasingly, business coverage has addressed its audience as investors rather than citizens... -- Personality profiles, critical as they may be, are comfortably within the narrowing business-press discourse. Plus they're a lot easier, and less risky, than investigations—and it's that part of business journalism that has been allowed to wither, says Katie Benner, a Fortune writer. "It's much easier to write a story saying something is a bubble than saying it's a fraud," she notes. "If business-news organizations want to be taken seriously, they need to invest in investigative journalism." Needless to say, chances for that look slim right now—but it is more than just a question of resources. Predatory lending happened in plain sight; it didn't take a muckraker to see what was wrong. Yet business journalism kept its blinders on, played it safe, fixated on stock market concerns, and allowed its BS detector to atrophy just when it was needed most.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mike Davidson -- Last Rites

"I’ve noticed there are many non-obvious costs associated with us becoming a society of news snackers: #Our attention spans are shrinking below even the levels caused by the television explosion of the ’80s and ’90s #We value timeliness of information more than depth of coverage, or even truth in some cases #We’re uncovering more of the who’s, what’s, when’s, and where’s, but less of the how’s and why’s"

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- 1,000 Points of Data

"What we need now is a Web-based system for measuring our changing society with key national indicators — in a free, public, easy-to-use form. Ideally, it would be run by the nonpartisan National Academy of Sciences, which would ensure it has the best quality of information and is kept up to date. The system would enable us to offer in one place statistical information that we spend billions of dollars collecting but that is now underused and undervalued. Imagine everyone having at their fingertips answers to questions like: How many quality jobs are we adding to the American economy? How many more students are getting into college? How many more people are gaining access to affordable health insurance? Are we increasing economic growth along with savings and investment? Are we reducing our greenhouse gas emissions?"

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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TED.com -- Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users

"In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Atlantic -- The Future Is Cheese

"...it’s difficult for a media consumer to care enough about any one thing to stick with it—and for a network trying to build allegiance to a brand, convincing anyone that what you’re showing matters becomes almost impossible. The only thing network television can uniquely offer us non-digitally-optimized saps and dipshits is the promise of immediacy. Leno’s content—like that of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the breakout stars of the past few years—is news-driven, hypertimely, and ultimately disposable, insofar as it loses almost all its value within 24 hours. ...viewers will (I think, and hope) happily continue to pay for quality. Those who don’t will get what they don’t pay for." -- The book was better.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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New York Magazine -- The Renegades at the New York 'Times'

'“The proposal was to create a newsroom: a group of developers-slash-journalists, or journalists-slash-developers, who would work on long-term, medium-term, short-term journalism—everything from elections to NFL penalties to kind of the stuff you see in the Word Train.” This team would “cut across all the desks,” providing a corrective to the maddening old system, in which each innovation required months for permissions and design. The new system elevated coders into full-fledged members of the Times—deputized to collaborate with reporters and editors, not merely to serve their needs.' -- '... the essence of R&D’s vision... New York Times is less a newspaper and more an informative virus—hopping from host to host, personalizing itself to any environment.' -- '... they’ll reestablish themselves as trustworthy curators of data—custodians of the true and the quantitative. “The Internet provides a way to say, ‘Look, this is real. Real, real, real.’ ”

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Oracle with Max Keiser: Episode One, Part One

"The first episode of The Oracle with Max Keiser which aired on BBC World News on 9 January 2009. Guests: Jacques Attali and Carrie Quinlan Topics: Recession or Depression? The global financial crisis. The low wages that caused the crisis."

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