Fox News and White House Formalize Their Relationship

" Snow is something of a showman, having earned his living in a world in which success hinges upon being provocative. Snow, 50, to become one of the most visible faces of the administration because he...

'Red America' Blogger Resigns

" While liberal bloggers objected to the fact of Domenech's hiring and his inflammatory language, such as calling Coretta Scott King a...

Bush on Media

""'I find it interesting that the old way of gathering the news is slowly but surely losing market share,' Bush said in an exclusive interview for the new book Strategery. 'It's interesting to watch these media conglomerates try to deal with the realities of a new kind...

Where are the Pathbreakers of Narrative?

"Never before have the media been so globally aware, so technologically empowered, so strategically positioned to tell compelling stories, create coherent communities and transcend differences of time, space and culture. But two issues dominating the news this week - the...

Apple Gives Citizen Journalism a Boost

Apple has put a camera into it's new computer. Here's how it's being described at cybersoc.com: "The Apple Website says that the built in camera, another first for Apple, gives this new generation of...

NSA whistleblower asks to testify (Bill Gertz/Washington Times)

NSA whistleblower asks to testify  —  A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA...

Was Christiane Amanpour spied on - and more importantly, if so, why? (Will/At...

Was Christiane Amanpour spied on — and more importantly, if so, why?  —  "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."  —...

Key Democrat Says Spying Violated Law (Scott Shane/New York Times)

Key Democrat Says Spying Violated Law  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday that the limited Congressional briefings the Bush administration has provided on a National Security Agency eavesdropping...

Reporter defends release of NSA spy program (Andrea Mitchell/MSNBC)

Reporter defends release of NSA spy program  —  James Risen says his sources are 'patriots,' CIA calls them 'unreliable'  —  New York Times reporter James Risen first broke the...

Bush tapping journalists?

Bush tapping journalists? “As reported below, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell – based on some information she clearly hasn’t yet made public – is asking if Bush specifically wiretapped CNN’s Christiane Amanpour....

Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger

Rebecca McKinnon reports:Microsoft’s MSN Spaces continues to censor its Chinese language blogs, and has become more aggressive and thorough at censorship since I first checked out MSN’s censorship system last summer. On New Years Eve, MSN Spaces took down the popular...

2005 - Year of the Digital Citizen

The BBC is calling 2005 the Year of the Digital Citizen. I agree. In the last 18 months we have seen tectonic shifts in the media landscape. More power is in the hands of the ‘former audience’ than...

Bush Tries to Hush News Editors

President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security. The efforts have failed, but the rare White House sessions with the executive editors of The Washington Post and New York...

Journalism's Slo-Mo Suicide

Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing" column, which appears on washingtonpost.com, is a sparkling daily anthology of the deceit, disingenuousness, evasiveness, hypocrisy and lack of accountability of the W administration. What Froomkin does is artfully compile...

Trust in News Tied to Public Control

From on the commons, an analysis of why online news like NowPublic is more likely to be trusted:The journalistic convention of objectivity is precisely what is being assaulted by the new online media. The commons-based media are thriving because they are seen as more...

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