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Category Archives: Chapter 3
News about News
Chicago Defender facing financial trouble One of the nation’s oldest and most storied black-owned papers has laid off its top editors and is behind on its rent. Disney tells ABC affiliates not to talk to Johnny Depp about his new … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged news, newspapers, television
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Link Ch. 3 Steve Jobs – A Hero not a Saint
Steve Jobs died today, Oct. 5, 2011, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. As I am writing this, cable news hosts and commentators are lionizing him and Internet trolls are savaging him. To me, Steve Jobs was a hero. … Continue reading
Updated – Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How do journalists handle telling the story when politicians and scientists conflict? There are always multiple sides when it comes to politics. But when you move into science, not all sides are equal. Finding a path to reporting on politicians … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, legal issues, questions
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
As people of color become a majority, is it time for journalists to stop using the term ‘minorities’? When I posted this link to an article from Poynter last week, I got a lot of interesting feedback. PR man @mitchellfriedmn wrote, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 3, Chapter 6
Tagged legal issues, media business, questions, race, social media
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Ch. 3 Link – Rupert Murdoch, Capt. Renault, and the News of the World
I’ve been holding off blogging for some time about the whole fuss over the scandal surrounding the British tabloid News of the World because I haven’t really been sure what to say about it. On the one hand, the largest … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged ethics, international news, newspapers, Secret 4, Truth 4
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Google’s goes conventional with ‘Sophie’ ad for Chrome
Google has a new television ad for its Chrome web browser that is quite charming: Long-time tech journalist Steven Levy (author of the 80s computer classic Hackers) has an interesting analysis of the ad. He notes that while the ad … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 3
Tagged advertising, Google
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Link Ch. 3 – How Walt Disney Cartoons are Made – 1939
Here is a fun old RKO short on how the Walt Disney studio produced cartoons back in the 1930s. A great look at old-school animation. Thanks to /Film for the link. (Pay attention to the narration. The inking work is … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
What’s the most popular e-reader? HINT: It’s the one more people own – the laptop. How big is the e-book market? Forrester reports that it has hit $1 billion and will grow rapidly over the next three years. It’s still … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 3, Chapter 9, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, books, mobile phones, questions
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I Discovered Tech Dirt Last Week
I discovered the blog Tech Dirt last week, and I find that I’m getting a huge amount of materials for my Twitter feed from there. (You are following me on Twitter, aren’t you?) Tech Dirt deals with stories on “government … Continue reading