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MySpace rises as new online star |
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1:22 am EST, Feb 13, 2006 |
The Internet has a rising star whose name isn't Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google The development comes as the leading portal, Yahoo, becomes more like MySpace, starting a social-networking service called 360 and buying content-sharing sites such as Flickr and Del.icio.us.
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The Lament of David Brooks |
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9:37 am EDT, May 20, 2005 |
] Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the
] blogosphere. I look around the Web these days and find
] that Newsweek's retracted atrocity story has sent
] everybody into cloud-cuckoo-land. Every faction up and
] down the political spectrum has used the magazine's
] blunder as a chance to open fire on its favorite targets,
] turning this into a fevered hunting season for the straw
] men. AKA the Bird Seller's Lament. The blogosphere is talking about newsweek's irrelevancy. I'm sure they'll take this column from Brooks as defensive main stream media blog bashing. Its not. There won't be any great controversy when people stop reading political blogs. The numbers will just quietly go down. The authors will be howling all the way... The Lament of David Brooks |
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The Media and Medievalism |
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1:05 pm EST, Dec 26, 2004 |
"The most blatant tyranny is the one which asks the most blatant questions. All questioning is a forcible intrusion. The questioner knows what there is to find, but he wants actually to touch it and bring it to light." Across the post-industrial West, elections have become eerily manipulated events indistinguishable from corporate advertising campaigns, in which candidates regularly make pronouncements that are obviously insincere or flat-out false but vital to placating millions of voters on hot-button emotional issues. The world loves the untrue statement, and the sliest, most successful politicians deeply internalize this fact. But few politicians are consistently sly in reading accurately the crowd's daily and hourly shifts in passion, and those who are -- because of the fact of their slyness -- usually find it wiser to cave in to these shifts than to lead the crowd down the hard road elsewhere. Because even our best politicians are cowed by the electoral herd, we must look to another group for the true source of power in our age. Robert D. Kaplan rocks. In this piece, he channels the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, with McLuhanesque results. The Media and Medievalism |
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Al Jazeera: Out-Foxing Fox |
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8:19 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2004 |
The gulf between the American and Arab realities is the subject of "Control Room," a powerful documentary by Jehane Noujaim, an Egyptian-American. She looks at Al Jazeera's coverage of the war, offering a sobering reminder that there are multiple ways of perceiving the same events. As U.S. Lt. Josh Rushing astutely notes in "Control Room," Al Jazeera is the Arab version of the Fox News Channel. Al Jazeera: Out-Foxing Fox |
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The Creation of the Media (Review) |
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8:40 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
Most complaints about the media are personal. Rupert Murdoch did this, Jayson Blair did that. But the most important -- and interesting -- questions are structural. How can newspapers support increasingly expensive international coverage, when most keep losing readers? How can a television station afford not to trumpet disasters and scandals on its local news, when competitors that do get higher ratings? Does concentration of ownership really matter? Is there any longer such a thing as a broad market for the news? "The Creation of the Media" is so thick with detail and careful in nuance that it is completely convincing as a work of scholarship. The heart of his argument is that Americans fundamentally misunderstand what is unusual about their communications media, and why. The Creation of the Media (Review) |
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