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The Return of Idealism
New Republic
Good Lord. Just actually uses the Georgia-Russia war analogy without irony, failing to note that, in fact, Georgia started that war and has a leader not nearly as liberal as his supporters ... More »
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06/23/2009 |
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Wrong Way on Health ’Reform’
Washington Post
There is no health-care reform package on the table yet. Samuelson is a smart guy, and surely has some ideas for what real reform might look like. Instead, he criticizes what he guesses ... More »
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06/17/2009 |
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The Iranian People Speak
Washington Post
Ballen and Doherty make some important points. But poll analyst extraordinaire Nate Silver has noted some flaws in their commentary, and I have added Silver's views to the Links.
see Dan's links
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06/15/2009 |
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Wishful thinking from Tehran
The Guardian
No numbers, so no proof that the Iranian election was or wasn't stolen. But Barzegar explains the context in which Ahmedinejad could have won in a provocative and compelling way.
see Dan's comments
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06/15/2009 |
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Just Like Bush
New Republic |
06/06/2009 |
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Sotomayor Faulted Over Missing Memo
Wall Street Journal |
06/06/2009 |
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U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases
New York Times |
06/06/2009 |
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Israel papers: new era in US ties
BBC News |
06/06/2009 |
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Democracy seen threatened by new authoritarianism
Reuters
A very thin story that makes no mention of the fact that the worldwide plunge in oil prices has greatly diminished the influence of three of the countries mentioned: Iran, Venezuela, and ... More »
see Dan's links
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06/04/2009 |
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The rebirth of news
Economist |
05/19/2009 |
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Free the Kazakhstan Internet
Media Nation (Dan submitted this story)
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04/27/2009 |
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In Iran, Roxana Saberi sentenced to eight years in prison
Committee to Protect Journalists
The CPJ is doing important work in shining a light on repressive regimes that see journalism as a threat.
(Dan submitted this story)
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04/18/2009 |
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A local take on global coverage
Media Nation (Dan submitted this story)
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04/11/2009 |
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Times Co. threatens to shut Globe; seeks $20m in cuts from unions
Boston Globe |
04/05/2009 |
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The New York Times on the Precipice
Vanity Fair
Dauntingly comprehensive, but Bowden unfairly blames Sulzberger for problems that were beyond his — or anyone's — control. I riffed on Bowden's piece in The Guardian this week, and ... More »
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04/04/2009 |
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Betsy McCaughey Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia - Feb. 10, 2009 (Research) (Pending)
In 1994, McCaughey (as she was then known) vigorously criticized the health care reform package proposed by Bill Clinton in a widely read article in The New Republic. The ...
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Class v. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges of a North Tehran Fallacy
Informed Comment - Jun. 15, 2009 (Opinion) (Pending)
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Free the Kazakhstan Internet
Media Nation - Apr. 27, 2009 (News Report)
(Blog Post) During my brief time in Kazakhstan, I got the impression that the government is trying to move beyond its repressive past. The country, a former Soviet republic, also seems to ...
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In Iran, Roxana Saberi sentenced to eight years in prison
Committee to Protect Journalists - Apr. 18, 2009 (Advocacy)
An Iranian court convicted journalist Roxana Saberi of espionage and sentenced her to eight years in prison today following a closed, one-day trial earlier this week, ...
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A local take on global coverage
Media Nation - by Dan Kennedy - Apr. 11, 2009 (Review)
(Blog Post) Even as we lament the ongoing collapse of the newspaper business as we've known it, there are reasons to be optimistic about the survival of journalism. I thought I would take ...
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Freeman Dyson speaks with Salon
Salon - by Onnesha Roychoudhuri - Sep. 29, 2007 (Interview)
Such broad-spectrum thinking, particularly for a scientist, usually puts you in one of two camps: quack or genius. Dyson has been called both. Yet his penchant for challenging ...
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Next steps for the shrinking Boston Globe
Media Nation - by Dan Kennedy - Mar. 26, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Blog Post) Working harder isn't going to do it once the Boston Globe has finished with its current round of 50 reductions to the newsroom staff. Once that process has been completed, the ...
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For The New York Times, the digital future is now
CNET News - by Daniel Terdiman - Mar. 10, 2009 (News Report)
By now, just about everyone who follows the media industry has heard of the deep fiscal troubles of The New York Times. But even as the paper does its best for all the news ...
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Forget Britney; Media Outrage Hits Big Spenders
New York Times - by Brian Stelter - Mar. 13, 2009 (News Report)
It could be called “To Catch a Rich Guy." The celebrity Web site TMZ and TV shows like “Extra” and “Inside Edition” are expanding their coverage of starlets and ...
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About that newspaper ‘doomsday' list
Reflections of a Newsosaur - by Alan D. Mutter - Mar. 12, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) Don’t lose too much sleep over the list of 10 supposedly doomed newspapers that made the rounds in the last couple of days.... The hit list, which was produced by Douglas A. ...
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How Newspapers Must Change to Survive
ABC News - by Michael S. Malone - Mar. 13, 2009 (Opinion)
What the history of technology tells is that at some point, the slaughter stops. What remains are a handful of survivors. Some, like the handful of companies that still make ...
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Brawl Street: Get Read to Buy Low! And Sell Die
Daily Show - by Jon Stewart - Mar. 13, 2009 (Interview)
(Video - streaming) The weeklong feud of the century finally comes to a head.... Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to fraud, while Jon and Jim Cramer finally face off.
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Many Would Shrug if Their Local Newspaper Closed
Pew Research - by Andrew Kohut - Mar. 12, 2009 (Poll)
As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community “a ...
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Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
Associated Press - by Hamza Hendawi - Mar. 12, 2009 (Breaking News)
The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, provoking ...
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Life, online, after the Rocky Mountain News
Online Journalism Review - by Robert Niles - Mar. 11, 2009 (Interview)
When Denver's Rocky Mountain News closed last month, hundreds of journalists found themselves looking for work. Some of them, though, aren't waiting for another newsroom to ...
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Google News Archive Search Shows Promise for News Organizations
Poynter Institute - by Amy Gahran - Mar. 11, 2009 (Comment)
(Blog Post) News is never just about what's happening today — it's also about context, including what led up to this moment in time. That's why lately I've been intrigued by the Google ...
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The MinnPost Model: Is it sustainable?
City Pages - by Matt Snyders - Mar. 2, 2009 (News Report)
Last week, MinnPost announced that for the first time it had garnered one million pageviews in the last 31 days — triple what it had achieved just 12 months earlier. But ...
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APIs: The new distribution
Buzzmachine - by Jeff Jarvis - Mar. 10, 2009 (Comment)
(Blog Post) The Guardian just announced that it is releasing all its content through an API as well as making available many different data sets through a data store, all of which can be ...
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Defogging the Economic Crisis
American Journalism Review - by Jamie McIntyre - Mar. 11, 2009 (Review)
The radio show that caught the ear of Baucus and Geithner is "This American Life," aired on 500 public radio stations and heard by some 1.8 million listeners each week. ...
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Why is Jim Cramer shouting at me?
Salon - by Gabriel Winant - Mar. 11, 2009 (Review)
On Monday, at 8:30 a.m., I turned on CNBC and started watching the business channel for the first time in my life. Twelve hours later, a long stare through the peacock-colored ...
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CPJ calls for Iranian president's intervention in Saberi case
Committee to Protect Journalists - Mar. 9, 2009 (Advocacy)
With an American journalist now in an Iranian jail for more than five weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for the charges against her to be made public and for ...
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Behind the Incredibly Shrinking Media
Business Week - by Paul Armstrong - Mar. 11, 2009 (Comment)
What changed? What went wrong? Nothing. The audience's attention capacity has not shrunk, but the demands on it did — exponentially.... This "new world" brought us massive ...
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Globe, Sox sale could help NYT raise $1.2B - Boston Business Journal:
Bizjournals.com - Feb. 16, 2009 (Pending)
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Preaching Ethics, D.C. Pol Threatens To Squash Tiny Paper
Washington Post - by Marc Fisher - Mar. 9, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) [G]oing after a tiny, non-profit paper's advertisers when you don't even accuse the paper of a single error is pure bullying. [D.C. city councilor Harry] Thomas should pick on ...
About Dan
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Assistant professor of journalism, Northeastern University |
| Publications | The Guardian, Boston Phoenix |
| Interests | media, politics |
| Affiliations | Unitarian Universalist; otherwise, I steer clear of affiliations that would compromise my independence. |
Background
| Journalism | More than 20 years |
| Education | Post-graduate school |
| News | 60-90 minutes a day |
| Internet | 90 minutes a day or more |
| Languages | English-only |
| Politics | Left |
| Age | 50-64 |
| Gender | Male |
Favorites
| Topics | Media, New Media, Media and Politics |
Contact Info
| Web Page | medianation.blogspot.com |
| Address | Boston, MA, 02115, US |
| Last Visit | Jun 23, 2009 - 3:57 PM PDT |
| Last Edit | Nov 19, 2008 - 7:04 PM PST |
Ratings Given to Members
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To Dwight Rousu | for Doctor's Orders? | 03/03/2009 |
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To Norman Rogers | for Doctor's Orders? | 03/02/2009 |
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To Walter Cox | for Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan | 02/11/2009 |
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To Patricia L'Herrou | for Mandate for What? | 12/06/2008 |
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To Dennis A. Abbott | for Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat | 12/03/2008 |
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To Kaizar Campwala | for Darkness at Dusk | 11/11/2008 |
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To Mark Monday | for Darkness at Dusk | 11/11/2008 |
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To Kevin Plumley | for Are the Banks Scamming Us? | 11/10/2008 |
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To Chris Finnie | for Are the Banks Scamming Us? | 11/10/2008 |
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To Chris Finnie | for Republicans rebranded | 11/09/2008 |
Ratings Received from Members
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From Dwight Rousu | for The Iranian People Speak | 06/20/2009 |
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From Fabrice Florin | for The Iranian People Speak | 06/15/2009 |
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From Derek Hawkins | for Just Like Bush | 06/06/2009 |
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From Walter Cox | for Democracy seen threatened by new authoritarianism | 06/04/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Times Co. threatens to shut Globe; seeks $20m in cuts from unions | 04/11/2009 |
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From Ben Ross | for The Civil Heretic (profile of Freeman Dyson) | 04/01/2009 |
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From Peter L. Combs | for The Civil Heretic (profile of Freeman Dyson) | 03/31/2009 |
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From Walter Cox | for The Civil Heretic (profile of Freeman Dyson) | 03/31/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for The Civil Heretic (profile of Freeman Dyson) | 03/30/2009 |
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From Kristin Gorski | for How Newspapers Must Change to Survive | 03/14/2009 |
