Monday, August 31, 2009
Will federal intervention favor old media over indy/Internet media?
Justin Raimondo, who runs the heavily-trafficked antiwar.com website, warns of possible federal efforts to help struggling mainstream media. He worries that two days of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) "workshops" scheduled for December could lead to government intervention favoring old, corporate media like the New York Times and Washington Post over Craigslist and alternative/Internet sources of news. (The FTC was set up as a consumer protection agency aimed at preventing monopoly and fostering marketplace competition.) As a rightwing libertarian, Raimondo is skeptical of government on principle, not just the Obama administration. He is particularly irked by the dean of U.C. Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism, who told the NY Times that he is sympathetic to FTC efforts to gather experts “to talk about the crisis in mainstream journalism.”
Friday, August 28, 2009
Daily Show visits The New York Times
Correspondent Jason Jones of The Daily Show reports on his visit to The New York Times (June 10, 2009)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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