By Christopher B. Daly. Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy had a remarkable column on the front page of the paper today. It was remarkable for several reasons. First, it was on page 1, which suggests to me that it was a newsroom [...]

      By Don Irvine. Liberal website, Talking Points Memo, has launched a membership drive for its $50 prime membership, which promises a cleaner, faster and in the cases of mobile and RSS feeds, no ads: JOSH MARSHALL – DECEMBER [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Invoking journalism history, New York state’s highest court has ruled that under New York’s state constitution and the state’s version of a “shield law,” a journalist cannot be forced to divulge the identity [...]

By M. A Mughal. In the last five decades or so, the media and its influence on the societies, has grown exponentially with the advance of technology. Software to build websites has become a crucial point in today’s world. First there [...]

By Don Irvine.   President Obama criticized the media for focusing on the failures of government, like the IRS scandal and the botched Obamacare rollout, while ignoring its successes: Part of the reason people are so skeptical is that [...]

  By Alexander Sodiqov. A set of “ethical” guidelines for the users of internet services and personal electronic devices has been developed in Tajikistan. The “Ethics Code for an e-Citizen”, presented in Dushanbe on October 11, [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. A hat-tip to the talented team at NPR’s “Planet Money.” They are spinning a yarn this week about how a T-shirt is made, from start to finish. Best of all, they decided to actually make a specific T-shirt of [...]

  By Alexander Sodiqov. It is official now: most voters arriving at the polling stations tomorrow to vote in Tajikistan’s presidential elections will have no idea that they have options other than the incumbent president. Media have done [...]

By Don Irvine. On Monday, USA Today became the latest news organization refusing to use official White House photos to protest restrictions of press access. USA Today’s Deputy Director of Multimedia, Andrew Scott, explained the paper’s [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly Once again, NYTimes media columnist David Carr has put his finger on an issue that deserves more attention: the unpaid internship. The practice of granting internships to college students for no pay has become [...]

By Don Irvine. President Obama, who has seen his job approval ratings sink to new lows thanks to the failure of the Obamacare rollout, met with MSNBC hosts and some liberal pundits at the White House on Thursday in an effort to stanch the [...]

By Christopher B. Daly.   A hat-tip to TNR for recognizing the impact of High Times, the magazine that has stayed laser-focused on its advocacy of legalizing marijuana use in the United States.  (Memo to TNR: in your drive to [...]

  By Emphraim Percy. Campus Divas For Rich Men is a Facebook page dedicated to hooking up female Kenyan university students under the age of 26 with rich men of any age. The page has used the slogan “Money can buy us.” After receiving [...]

By Don Irvine. During his press conference on Thursday, President Obama chided the media for not reporting on the good news about Obamacare—the large number of people who have signed up for Medicaid. Obama said that of the one million applications [...]

  By YouAreBeingManipulated. On the Internet, who can you trust? There’s an old joke that on the Internet, nobody knows that you’re a dog. That may be true, but it does raise the question of who can you trust online? Or, more prosaically, [...]

By Claude Salhani. Few people realize it but World War III is well underway and has been for a while. The difference is that this war is being fought in cyber space with occasional battles shifting from computer screens to conventional battlefields, [...]

By Don Irvine.   White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted during Tuesday’s daily press briefing that “communications are challenging here,” as he struggled once again to defend the disastrous Obamacare website rollout. Carney’s [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. With the approach of the 50th anniversary of that fateful day in Dallas, I thought it might be worth re-visiting my account of the assassination. Here is an excerpt from Covering America that looks at the media [...]

     By University of San Diego.   A new study by a researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, says that by 2015, the sum of media asked for and delivered to consumers [...]

By Juan Cole. This talk is from 1990 but it is astonishing how well it holds up. The terms of discourse haven’t changed. Propaganda Terms in the Media and What They Mean – Noam Chomsky http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/propaganda-terms-chomsky.html