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Newspaper Giants Buy Web News Monitor |
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5:48 am EST, Mar 23, 2005 |
Three of the nation's biggest newspaper publishers are joining forces to buy three-fourths of Topix.net, a Web site that monitors more than 10,000 online news sources. Newspaper Giants Buy Web News Monitor |
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Epithet Morphs From Bad Girl to Weak Boy |
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7:03 am EST, Mar 22, 2005 |
Television's word of the day is bitch, but this is not your mother's bitch. The new "bitch," in a usage that has become popular on network television, refers not to dogs or women, but to men. And while parody and overuse are taking the misogynistic sting out of the old one, this new bitch is just getting its claws. Epithet Morphs From Bad Girl to Weak Boy |
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1:22 am EST, Mar 18, 2005 |
This is pretty cool; it debuted in late January but I hadn't noticed it until now. Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content -- everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows. Right now we're just testing this product, so you'll find programs only from a limited number of channels, which we've been indexing since late December 2004. You can expect to see more and more content as we continue to add new channels. Google Video Search |
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? |
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| Topic: Media |
8:59 am EST, Mar 14, 2005 |
When it comes to online news, consumers are happy to read it but loath to pay for it. At NYT, the number of people who read the paper online now surpasses the number who buy the print edition. This migration of readers is beginning to transform the newspaper industry. This has been a topic of discussion here ... Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times: "What happens if advertising goes flat? What happens when somebody develops software to filter out advertising -- TiVo for the Web?" It is unsurprising that, for media people, TiVo reduces to a single feature: the 30-second skip. But this means they are missing the larger picture of TiVo's effect on how customers interact with media, such as the reduced significance of schedule and channel, owing to a decoupling of the viewing experience from the act of broadcast and recording. "The online business model won't ever be able to support the whole news infrastructure." A tragedy of the commons is emerging in this trend. Eventually, the major media will go through a purge cycle akin to those of the telecoms and the airlines. Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? |
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11:55 am EST, Mar 13, 2005 |
Going from Tess Harding to Carrie Bradshaw, Dorothy Thompson to Candace Bushnell, is not progress. Dish It Out, Ladies |
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My Career in Bumper Stickers |
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| Topic: Media |
1:25 am EST, Feb 19, 2005 |
Several years ago, I took a job as a gossip columnist for my local newspaper. In this role, I was to invent fake gossip. In my column, which is called "Heard by a Bird," I began to transcribe amusing bumper stickers I saw on Main Street. One day it struck me that I could write my own messages, and pretend they were real -- just as Jorge Luis Borges suggested it was superior to write reviews of imaginary books, rather than actually write the books. I would create, if not true bumper stickers, then the rumor of bumper stickers. My Career in Bumper Stickers |
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9:08 am EST, Jan 6, 2005 |
CNN has ended its relationship with Tucker Carlson and will shortly cancel its long-running daily political discussion program, "Crossfire," CNN president Jonathan Klein said last night. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America." Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise." CNN Is All Tuckered Out |
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The War Inside the Arab Newsroom |
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4:33 pm EST, Jan 2, 2005 |
The challenge Al-Rashed faces is much bigger than simply revamping a television channel. His goal is to foster a new kind of dialogue among Arabs, to carve out space for moderate and liberal ideas to enter the conversation, and in the process to do nothing less than save the Arab world from itself. Dubai, with its Disneyesque Arab souks in which you can purchase Arab handicrafts or a Cinnabon ... The news director refused to give Essam the assignment, saying it was too dangerous. So Essam used his vacation time to travel to Iraq from Dubai and "embed" himself in a house of insurgents in Falluja. Khatib has a sense about him that there is weight to the task he has been charged with: there is something irrevocable about making a mistake, about getting information wrong. He is clearly sickened by the media landscape of the Arab world. The War Inside the Arab Newsroom |
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The Media and Medievalism |
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8:09 pm EST, Dec 25, 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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4:34 pm EST, Nov 26, 2004 |
Lots of graphs and tabular survey results. A few tidbits: 83.4% of males 18-24 have Internet access; 18-34s with broadband access spend 52% more time than dial-up peers Importance of newspapers differs by age group; only 17% of 18-24s say that "reading the newspaper is an important part of my day." Generational Media Study |
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