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Currently ReadingRecently Read | There’s plenty of problems plaguing the press, particularly the mainstream media. The digital and social media world seem to have preempted or seriously damaged the traditional press. But I found this a real shock: the United States fell from 20th to 47th in the annual Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders. Twentieth was bad [...]            Tim January 31st, 2012 | Tags: censorship, First Amendment, Media | Category: Media | Leave a comment |  Print This Post |  Email This PostBob Mercer put it well: “A newswoman like no other.” That was the headline of his blog post today in which I learned Tena Haraldson is leaving her position as the Associated Press bureau chief for the Dakotas and Nebraska. Tena probably is a 35-year veteran of AP. I’m proud to say I’ve known her [...] Tim January 19th, 2012 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This PostNo one disputes the impact the digital age has had on journalism, particularly newspapers, so there’s a variety of ideas floating around to keep newspapers alive. The Federal Trade Commission’s staff just released a draft discussion report as a result of the FTC saying last year that it wanted to consider the challenges faced by [...] Tim June 15th, 2010 | Tags: copyright, journalism, Media, newspapers | Category: Media | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism today released its seventh annual report on The State of the News Media. While it covers all variety of media, it certainly bears out the concerns about my old stomping ground — newspapers. (I’m old enough to remember the transition from typewriters to word processors in [...] Tim March 15th, 2010 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostYou would think I would automatically hail the advent of a new interweb book review site, especially one created by a well-respected national magazine. But I can’t say The New Republic did much to entice me when it announced its new online book review, The Book. In an online letter to “Friends of Books and [...] Tim January 14th, 2010 | Tags: blog, Books, Internet, journalism, Media | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIndex on Censorship bills itself as “Britain’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression.” So it isn’t surprising it would be interested in the decision earlier this year by the Yale University Press to publish The Cartoons That Shook the World, an account of the uproar and riots that occurred in September 2005 when a Danish [...] Tim December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: censorship, Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWe hear a lot lately about the struggles of traditional news media in the Internet age. But it seems a lot of people believe the damage may be self-inflicted. A new study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicates the fewest number of people in more than two decades believe [...] Tim September 15th, 2009 | Tags: journalism, local media, Media, television | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostNever a big fan of MJ myself, his death again shows our culture in all its glory. A few examples: C’mon, Michael, aren’t you carrying this stunt a bit too far? Of course, the news almost brought that interweb thingy and Twitter to their knees. You know even you wondered about this: A legal scramble [...] Tim June 26th, 2009 | Tags: Culture, Media, Michael Jackson, Music | Category: Culture, Music | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostAs a former newspaper reporter, I’m one who is still addicted to and tends to bemoan the disappearance and struggles of daily newspapers. That’s despite the fact that a lot of newspapers aren’t what they once were (and who am I to really judge whether that’s good or bad.) U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D.-Md.) has [...] Tim March 25th, 2009 | Tags: Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI missed it when it was published last Friday but the NYT gave Jon Stewart some well-deserved love in a lengthy article asking, Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?. He is in my book and the article makes clear I’m not alone. It notes that in a 2007 poll by the Pew [...] Tim August 20th, 2008 | Tags: Daily Show, Media, Politics | Category: Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |       The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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