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Iraq & Afghan Wars: Just Give Me Some Truth

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - When it came to the war in Iraq, “I should have been the canary in the coal mine,” Alissa Rubin wrote this week in the New York Times. “But like so many others around me, I did not want to believe what I saw.”

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Will Mainstream Media Journalists Fail on Afghanistan War the Way They Did on Iraq?

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - The “’forgotten war’ in Afghanistan, as news outlets once called it, is suddenly very visible. NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel – who made his name covering the war in Iraq – put it well when he spoke to the New York Times from Kabul this week: “It’s like the Baghdad class of 2003 is now the Kabul class of 2009.

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NFL to Rush Limbaugh: You’re a Dead Man Talking!

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - It was obvious from the start that Rush Limbaugh’s bid to buy into the NFL was doomed. But why do NFL owners hold themselves to higher standards than the rest of us?

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Just Say Yes Men

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Sep. 21 (Opinion) - The Yes Men’s latest elaborate media hoax/heist blanketed Manhattan early Monday morning with a fake “truth-telling tabloid” about climate change and how it will soon affect New York City – and the rest of the world…

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Happy 40th Birthday, Mr. Internet!

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - Its relative initial obscurity was key to the success and adoption of the Internet, as experimentation was readily fostered and the ideal of an open network became a reality. But with more than a billion people now online, a few caveats (at least) are in order

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Join the Journalism Clubs -- "Members Only"

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to “monetize” their “content.” Now they’re desperately trying to “monetize” their “journalists.”

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Your Message Here: Salons, Sponsors, Pay-to-Play & Journalism

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - if, like so many others, you are currently ‘consuming’ most of your media diet at low-or-no cost, while operating under the notorious Internet dictum that “Information wants to be free,” should you really be quick to criticize the beleagured poor publisher of The Washington Post for sponsoring salons in hopes of keeping the doors open and the news flowing?

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Personal Democracy

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 30 (Other) - With half of the members of Congress now running their own YouTube Channel, and many of the rest Twittering their time away, no one questions any longer the primacy of the Internet and its attendant technologies. Instead, attention is now shifting toward how best to use these emerging media — and the social networks that power them — to transform the body politic in ways that are actually useful and meaningful to ‘ordinary’ citizens like you and me.

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Censoring Pro-Palestinian Political Messages?

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - Was it policy or pressure that led Lamar Outdoor Advertising to tear down billboards featuring a pro-Palestinian political message? Judge for yourself.

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Patrick Fitzgerald\'s Private Jihad Against Peter Lance\'s Triple Cross

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - "To put it plain and simple,” Fitzgerald wrote, “if in fact you publish the book this month and it defames me or casts me in a false light, HarperCollins will be sued.”

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Prairie Home Torture Companion

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - May. 20 (Opinion) - “I think the American electorate knew who they re-elected in 2004,” Keillor helpfully points out. “ Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney did not run on a human-rights platform, they ran as rough men who would guard our sleep. So go talk to the voters of Ohio about war crimes.”

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Times to Globe: It’s hard out here for a pimp!

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - "From the moment The Times Co. purchased The Globe in 1993 it has treated New England’s largest newspaper like a cheap whore."

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The Daily We

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - The conventional wisdom about social networks is that people filter out dissonant news and opinions, and instead flood themselves with news and views that merely confirm their prejudices. But new evidence suggests that in seeking information online, just the opposite happens. Many people are already using new media tools as trust filters in a truly sophisticated way.

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The New Breed of New Media Researchers

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Feb. 24 (Special Report) - He says that unlike face-to-face, ‘offline’ social networks, online social networks lend themselves to easy group formation. The resultant looser, more extensive social ties then lead to more diverse, and ultimately more trustworthy and credible news and information delivery.

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Embedded Business Press Misses Story of the Century

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - Just as our mainstream news reporters failed to do their job in alerting us an impending and fairly obvious disaster prior to the war in Iraq – and then ‘embedded’ themselves with the very people they were supposedly reporting on during the invasion and subsequent occupation — so too did our complaisant business press

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Web 3.0: Apture

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jan. 28 (Review) - The dream of the so-called ‘ semantic Web’ is to use ‘smart programs’ to tag and link to information across media while providing context and depth to stories without human intervention. Such a deep “Web 3.0” experience is said to be just a vision on the horizon, still years away from becoming a reality. But the future is now...

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Twitter Journalism

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jan. 19 (Interview) - The first report of the miraculous rescue of 150 passengers from a US Airways jet floating in the Hudson River also provided the latest evidence – if indeed it was still needed – that emerging social media are not only supplementing but supplanting the legacy mainstream media.

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Facebook Journalism

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jan. 14 (Interview) - The concept of “the trusted referral” is integral to the success of content sharing on Facebook. We’ve found that it is tremendously more powerful to get a piece of content – an article, a news clip, a video, etc – from a friend, and it makes you much more likely to watch, read, and engage with the content.

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Free the New York Three!

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - I must protest – even at the risk of having my press credential arbitrarily and summarily revoked – the latest undemocratic decision by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Fresh on the heels of having abrogated the decision of the people at the ballot box regarding the matter of term limits, Hizzoner’s current controversy revolves around a boneheaded decision by his Police Department to deny official ‘working press’ passes to three men, Rafael Martínez Alequin, Ralph E. Smith and David Wallis, all of whom work for online or nontraditional news outlets — such as this one!

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Media Change We Can Believe In

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - Whatever the story is, the “other story” is always the media story. Should we be surprised, for example, that our recently deregulated media system totally missed the story of what impact deregulation would have on our financial system? Of course not – and that’s why, in order finally to see true media “change we can believe in,” we’ll need an even more robust and active media reform movement

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Seeds of Hatred

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - John McCain was right in August when he called John Lewis one of the “wisest people” he knew. So when Representative Lewis — a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement – recently denounced the McCain/Palin campaign for its use of divisive rhetoric and said the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminded him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Governor George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s, he was calling it like it is.

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Rest In Peace, Gil Rossellini

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - It was always inspiring to hear Gil’s raspy voice rattling across the ocean, but never so much as in recent years, for whenever we would speak, he would inevitably punctuate his remarks by exclaiming, “Rory, every morning when I wake up, I thank God I’m alive!”

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Rachel Maddow: Progressive Media's Next Mainstream Star

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - That's right -- a woman who calls herself "a supplicant who worships in the Temple of Journalism" - but whom others have described as "Amy Goodman with animal noises" - is now firmly ensconced in the upper echelon of the political punditocracy.

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The Whole World is Watching: China's Media War

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - if the world's media and citizens acquiesce in the face of the Chinese media offensive, what pictures of China - or of Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen Square - will that watching world be permitted to see?

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Cultural Learnings of Kazakhstan

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:52:30 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - It's not everyday an American like me gets to attend a media conference half a world away featuring the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran - not to mention Russia's ex-prime minister and the two Richards of American foreign policy, former Assistant Secretary of State Holbrooke and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Perle, along with assorted representatives of NATO, the National Security Council and the OSCE. Nor is it common to have a television personality from Al Jazeera International, also known as (in the USA at least) the "terror channel," as the Conference Chair. Even less familiar is the conference's location - Almaty, the largest city in the Republic of Kazakhstan, heretofore unfortunately best known in the West as the butt of Borat jokes... Kazakhstan, it turns out, is the ninth largest country in the world -- actually bigger than all of Western Europe -- although its population is estimated at just over fifteen million people. Bordering on Russia, China, and the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the country stretches over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia and is also partially located in eastern-most Europe, west of the Ural River.

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