We Want Media

So we've all been hearing a lot lately about the internet and its effects on our media culture. It's supposed to be a great agent for democratic expression, knocking down the barriers to entry and transforming Joe Everyman into a reporter, a filmmaker, an expert.

The war on Iraq and Google's "master plan" have been brilliantly summarized by UK artists. Google could be Orwell's worst nightmare.

As widely reported, Jennifer Aniston & Co. have sued gossip blogger Perez Hilton over topless photos taken from "The Break Up." Consequently, she is slowly but surely showing the world why Brad dumped her.

I have to admit, I feel bad for Britney. She is obviously going through some series issues, but she can’t catch a break from the tabloid media.

I always thought that there was one way to read a book. Start to finish. Cover to cover. It was painful. And I never remember anything. There has to be another way to be knowledgeable without slaving over every last little word.

Famed Ren & Stimpy animator John Krisfaluci uses his blog as a way to train future cartoonists.

Yes, you heard it here first (or to be more accurate, it was here when I found it.)

When I began my TV reporting class (The Beat: NYC TV) last semester, one of the first lessons that our professors grilled into our heads was to always strive for objectivity (even though it isn’t necessarily attainable), and to keep our opinions or conclusions out of our stories.

Regardless of what you think about the event, the NYU College Republicans' "Find the Illegal" game sure got the coverage they were hoping it would. Matt Drudge picked it up yesterday. So did Fox News and MSNBC.

In a country plagued by state censorship, blogs have become a “lively alternative to mainstream media,"

I absolutely love WNYC. I love waking up to the scholarly voice of Soterios Johnson.

A cartoon published in the New Yorker is under heavy criticism from residents of the predominantly Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

What happened to the good old days when interns were the face-less workers behind magazines?

Gawker is quick to swoop in like the aging bird of prey it is and make a few choice remarks over its own He Who Must Not Be Named

I'll admit that celebrity news is extremely entertaining, and anything Britney Spears related is even more so. However, how appropriate or newsworthy is Spear's shaved head?

NBC’s “Today Show” informs us that one in eight Americans are addicted to technology. That would make Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale the poster child for phantom addictions (“I had physical symptoms [of withdrawl].”).

The Wall Street Journal's paygrade feature on blogging slaughtered any inkling I might have had previously regarding my future and blogging.

Legendary music producer Phil Spector’s U.S. murder trial will now be televised, as reported by the BBC.

I want to work in talk radio. Most will tell you that radio is a dying form of media—they have been saying that since the creation of television. But radio is still alive and kicking, thanks in part to talk radio personalities that keep the medium fresh and thought-provoking.

After watching the “leaked” clip that from earlier this week I decided that I had to break out the single greatest tool a blogger can use.