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John Aravosis is annoyed. For him and millions of Obama supporters who believed in the campaign that swept the current president into office, there is a great feeling of disgust with what has happened over the past year. What happened? On issue after issue, causes that were very clearly indentified as goals once Obama... »
Argentine Media Law
The Argentine parliament passed a new media reform law last week that caused alot of controversy throughout the country and is also of interest for national media policy throughout the world. The stated purpose and provisions of the law are not altogether unfamiliar ones, though in this era of dying newspapers and hyper consolidation of... »
European News Values from West to East (podcast#317)
Sitting in as far East as geographic Europe goes, questions about where we are and how things here differ from things over there arise. While in Western Europe issues regarding climate change are high on the public agenda, how does that issue fair in the East? On this particular night in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, I... »
Future of Television, Ahem
One of the fun parts of working as part of a freelance journalist collective in a city filled with creative minds, sometimes you get invited to something interesting and unexpected. Sometimes its just the opposite. Today some of my ambitious colleagues asked if I wanted to sit in and give my 2 cents at a... »
Testimony on the State of the Media
In a recent post you might remember me pointing to the words of The Wire creator and former Baltimore journalist David Simon as he was interviewed on Bill Moyer’s program. You might also remember that I’m a huge, let’s be honest, FAN, of Simon as I find the Wire to be one imperfect and... »