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Passes For Protection
Lara Logan of CBS News is criticizing Michael Hastings for his recent profile of General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone. I don’t understand her reasoning. She seems to be arguing that Hastings violated journalistic ethics and the military’s ground rules for the interview. Many of the most talked-about quotes from the article indicate that either [...]
Political Water Balloons
On the Media this week ran a segment about Joe Biden’s beach party. The Vice President and other administration officials invited reporters to party, and pictures, tweets and video of the affair soon surfaced. CNN’s Ed Henry said on OTM that the party did not hurt his journalistic integrity, but Salon’s Glenn Greenwald said otherwise [...]
About That Last Post
Just over a week later and my April 19th post is extremely out of date. Gizmodo editor Jason Chen is facing criminal charges for purchasing stolen property. Paying for access is one (very troubling and ethically murky) thing for a journalist to do, but knowingly purchasing stolen property is another.
Ethics In Journalism And Stolen Phones
I really like the story of the new iPhone, not because I like iPhones (though I do) but because it’s a great study in journalistic ethics. I am not a tech writer or a pundit, and I don’t want to be. Forgive me if I gloss over tech issues; I like thinking about ethics and [...]
April’s 8
Finally… More than rusty – I’ve been playing tennis lately, and I’ve really lost my touch. Maybe I was never that good, but then again, that would mean my whole high school tennis team was really, really horrible. The power of iron - The Atlantic tells me to use my cast iron pan to its full [...]
…Chapter 2
To counter to my last entry, I’ll post this video from Mental_Floss: The article is here. While this is a toy, I think it’s worthwhile to imagine a future without physical print media. I think Steven Johnson would agree that while it’s fine great to read, it isn’t anti-intellectual to favor other forms of mental [...]
Everyone Can Publish!
This is a post about paying for text online. This is just one, kind of fantastical, idea. In general, I like free content the way it is now. I just want better UIs. Now…let’s start with this video: Yes, the tablet looks amazing, but I’m more excited about the fact that Time Inc. made this [...]
A Must Read For Urban Issues Wonks
My Dad just loaned me The Power Broker – a controversial biography of Robert Moses. I didn’t know anything about Moses until I was moving out of New York, but his influence on the city and urban politics around the country is huge. It’s a lengthy bio and I’m not all the way through it, [...]