Archive for August, 2009


28
Aug

What’s the Right Response to Hate Speech in the Media? (Audio)

What exactly qualifies as hate speech? And when hateful words go viral online, do broadcast regulations still matter?


26
Aug

Join the Journalism Clubs — “Members Only”

Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to “monetize” their “content.” Now they’re desperately trying to “monetize” their “journalists.”


14
Aug

As I Was Saying…

Before I was so rudely interrupted by a vicious hack attack that took down all the MediaChannel sites, including this blog…


06
Aug

Declaring Victory, Going Home

So who’s right — the military and political forces that want to prolong our long national nightmare in Iraq as a means of extending American presence and leverage there, or the expert analyst who literally wrote the book on the U.S. Army’s history in Iraq?


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