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PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen.en-us2008-05-06T22:15:49-05:00Looking for the Mouse in Media: Clay Shirky on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus for Public Good
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"The imagery is geological: the release of trapped deposits. He thinks we can reverse the time sink for people once marooned on the receiving end of a one-way system that didn’t care what you thought or brought to it, since it couldn’t afford the costs of interacting with you."
Jay Rosen2008-05-06T22:15:49-05:00The Presses Stop But the Press Goes On: Capital Times Lives on the Web
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The Cap Times was re-born to Madison on Saturday. Ambivalence was felt about the lost authority of print-on-paper news. Generational blues were sung, a flying leap taken. Now a progressive newspaper must make real progress on the Web.Jay Rosen2008-04-28T01:08:15-05:00"Where's the Business Model for News, People?"
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/04/22/business_model.html
our reporters if you guys don’t want to pay for our news?”]]>Jay Rosen2008-04-22T00:04:59-05:00From Off The Bus to Meet the Press
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In between there is uncharted territory. Mayhill Fowler's report quoting Barack Obama at a fundraiser ("It's not surprising then they get bitter") was posted at OffTheBus Friday afternoon. By Sunday morning Tim Russert had it top of show. How it happened. Why we did it. Jay Rosen2008-04-15T14:14:47-05:00The Love Affair Between McCain and the Press Sprains the Brain of the Liberal Blogosphere
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/03/31/developing_as_m.html
"Though I await further reports, talk of some blogospheric war makes little sense to me. We're in a dynamic situation here. And one of the biggest unknowns is: will Obama match McCain in radical openness with the press?"Jay Rosen2008-03-31T01:18:26-05:00Just How Did John McCain Obtain What He Has in the Bank with the Press?
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Iran is training Al Qaeda is McCain's way of signaling that he intends to pick up where Bush and Cheney left off in discarding the whole reality-based approach to policy-making and public communication."]]>Jay Rosen2008-03-26T00:57:21-05:00Obama tells the Best Political Team on Television: You Have a Choice
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/03/18/obama_to_the_be.html
In Wolf Blitzer's instant analysis, Obama's big speech on race in America boils down to a "pre-emptive strike" against attacks yet to come. In fact it was a speech aimed right at him and other makers of political television. Jay Rosen2008-03-18T13:55:50-05:00Getting the Politics of the Press Right: Walter Pincus Rips into Newsroom Neutrality
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The important thing is to show integrity-- not to be a neuter, politically. And having good facts that hold up is a bigger advantage than claiming to reflect all sides equally well.Jay Rosen2008-03-14T10:36:23-05:00"An Attractively Against-the-Grain Enterprise..."
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/03/04/three_stories_f.html
When editors try to provoke and newspapers dance in front of the mirror: the perils of misguided contrarianism. "If the Post is willing to smash idols like that--women's equality--it must be a pretty broad-minded place, right?"Jay Rosen2008-03-04T01:11:49-05:00Three Vetting Stories Went Awry at the New York Times: Find the Pattern.
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drug use. Hillary's marriage. McCain's lobbyist. The New York Times made weird decisions in all three. So what gives? ]]>Jay Rosen2008-02-28T13:47:34-05:00Public Editor to Bill Keller: "You Haven't Got it."
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require them to think politically or risk terrible missteps."]]>Jay Rosen2008-02-25T01:03:34-05:00Cliff Notes Version of the Q and A with New York Times Readers About the McCain Investigation
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Here is my condensed, re-aranged version of the Q and A with readers that ran in the New York Times Feb. 21. It was meant to explain the decision-making that went into its article on John McCain's involvement with lobbyist Vicki Iseman.Jay Rosen2008-02-25T01:01:00-05:00For the New York Times, Too, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Risks
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its story--and its ethics--in the court of public opinion, but this is not something the Times is ever comfortable doing..."]]>Jay Rosen2008-02-21T10:15:32-05:00The Campaign Press is a Herd of Independent Minds
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tomdispatch.com (and at Salon.com). My attempt to move beyond lamenting horse race journalism to explain why it persists. "Campaign reporters tend to be massively other-directed. The reality-check is what the rest of the press is doing."]]>Jay Rosen2008-01-20T22:38:46-05:00"Most of them are not ideologically driven; they just want to get on the front page."
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2007/12/29/conservative_el.html
Huckenfreude is one case. "Like the social conservatives who deserve a seat on the bus but shouldn’t be allowed to drive it, the yahoos who think the press is a tool of the Democratic party are needed but should not be heeded by conservatives in power."]]>Jay Rosen2007-12-29T01:01:40-05:00