i swing both ways. i am really really tired of being over mediated, for example, by the kind of alarmist 4-6 p.m. local broadcast news which features "consumer" reportage such as how many germs there are on toilet seats, and how many pedophiles have moved into the neighborhood. their intent is to maintain the 40 per cent profit margin of TV stations, and to lead into the evening news. in other words, what is being purveyed is not news, but train wrecks you can't stop watching. my mother, who suffered from dementia, was much distressed in her last days by the same techniques used in weather reports, of exaggerating -- oh, let's say, the threat of the japanese tsunami to the virginia suburbs of d.c.. here 'tis:
been reading recently about foundation-supported hyperblogs who move into small unmediated communities where the town council has run unopposed for the last 67 years, without any kind of coverage or transparency, and the effect is revolutionary. it's the kind of journalism every j school grad thinks they're too good to cover, which is a big problem. i'll get you the very interesting url on the hyperblogs.
here 'tis:
http://www.kcnn.org/nv_whatworks/pdf
i say good riddance.
been reading recently about foundation-supported hyperblogs who move into small unmediated communities where the town council has run unopposed for the last 67 years, without any kind of coverage or transparency, and the effect is revolutionary. it's the kind of journalism every j school grad thinks they're too good to cover, which is a big problem. i'll get you the very interesting url on the hyperblogs.
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