Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake (disclaimer for benefit of my libertarian friends: this post is not about liberal politics) wrote on April 21st about Marcy Wheeler, linking to a FDL campaign to raise $150,000 so that Wheeler can set up shop as a full time writer with research support, a travel budget, etc., to continue breaking […]
I spent part of the morning immersed in Jay Rosen’s Flying Seminar on the Future of News, an annotated and definitive collection of links to thinking on the critical state of affairs in newspaper journalism. It seems to me that there’s a sense of crisis and urgency, but also a new desire for clarity and […]
Nancy linked today to a Salon article by Gary Kamiya on The Death of the News, which contains this wonderful quote on a future without the evil Mainstream Media as we know it: “It will be feast and famine: There will be far less primary reporting done by professionals and far more information available to […]