We Want Media

Last Thursday, Pamela Newkirk, author, media critic and professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at New York University, visited a class of mine to give us her thoughts on media, race and the newsroom.

It's a sad thing when issues of race obvuscate matters of justice.

Claria Company, a marketing and personalization software company, will soon be releasing PersonalWeb, a tracking software that will tailor web pages for internet surfers based on their online viewing habits.

As stated in my most recent post, Apple and other vendors of digital music and technology are in a bind in France.

This past Tuesday, French lawmakers passed legislation requiring companies to produce digital music files compatible with any digital music operating device.

Here's an interesting website. In 2002, a man named Russ Kick started a site called The Memory Hole -- dedicated to "rescuing knowledge and freeing information."

I subscribe to a conservative website called Human Events Online. No, I'm not a conservative, but I have nothing against them. No, really--I don't.

In his January 29th New York Times op-ed, newsroom veteran Ted Koppel, perhaps for the first time to date, identified the true enemy of America's rich journalistic tradition of democracy: big business.