This simple tweet was too much for the twits at Twitter to take: Full link. Of course I stand by the comment, because it’s right. And of course I will end up deleting the tweet because I’ll be banished otherwise. So be it. It’s their platform and if censorship is their thing, it’s nothing to…
Category: Media
The Morning After
Quite an interesting presidential election. President Trump has 267 electoral votes locked up, by my count. That leaves him 3 short and he must come from behind in either Michigan or Nevada to keep the presidency. My prediction is that will not happen and Joe Biden will become president. Given the vast inaccuracies in pollsters’…
Why Net Neutrality Matters
(Originally posted as a comment on the Huffington Post) In contrast to the title of Dave Winer’s post, Net Neutrality is an important issue for all users of the Internet, for exactly the reasons he details. Can you imagine being charged more for when using a telephone to talk about politics and less when discussing…
Ron Paul Kills on WikiLeaks
@RonJeffries “Ron Paul’s questions listed here are as good a defense of WikiLeaks as I’ve seen.” http://bit.ly/f8HrmT These are great questions that deserve answers, answers we almost certainly never get. Why? Because no one in power wants to pay the high price of setting the principle bar high enough to require the transparency we both…
Amazon Taking Heat for Doing the Right Thing
Amazingly, Paul Carr of TechCrunch has come out against Amazon’s decision to remove a pedophiliac’s handbook from its e-shelves. His rationale? The same information is available elsewhere. This is exactly the sort of unprincipled non-think that has would-be intellectuals second-guessing the Cold War now that it’s over. Principles matter, Paul, and people in the media…
Little Green Footballs Take Bad Bounces
Charles Johnson, proprietor of Little Green Footballs, is someone who used to make some sense, particularly with regard to the dangers of Islam. Sadly he’s recently dropped the ball and is now running like a headless chicken toward the wrong end zone, all the while shouting, “I’ve left the right! I’ve left the right!” Johnson’s…
The Tragedy of the Week
With Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne passing on this week you might think this article is about one of them but you’d be wrong. No, the real tragedy of the week is the end of Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow, the PBS show the Roots and Star Trek star used to pass on his love of…
Jury Runs Amok Fining Woman over Bootleg Songs
A federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas-Rasset of illegally downloading 24 songs and fined her an eye-popping $80,000 PER SONG in the re-trial of the first such copyright infringement case in the United States.
Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.
The Travails of Citizen Journalism
I attended the Houston tea party on April 15th and came away with some nice pictures of the protesters signs/messages, some good audio clips that I’ve now posted, and a new respect for field journalism when it is practiced well.
Of course journalism isn’t always done right, as CNN’s Susan Roesgen showed us in no uncertain terms. So how did my venture into the field go?
Misunderstanding Want and Need in Media, Life
Jane Hamsher’s busy keeping that lefty blogger no-one-wants-to-pay-us-for-our-hard-work theme going. News flash – if a customer can get your services for free then they’re going to do that. Unhappy? Try to charge them for your services. If your work is valued then they’ll meet your price. If not, well, you don’t have a sustainable business model, do you? That’s what the AP will find out if they keep going down the road they’re going.