Watching the watchdogs. Wired News: New Media's Age of Anxiety

Is late better than never? Several recent documentaries and a couple of prominent news analysts take the commercial news outlets to task for uncritical coverage of events leading up to the Iraq war. Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Films critique coverage of Iraq war

When propaganda and news collide. We saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night and it really gets one thinking about what is news in our post-modern world.

"At the beginning of the conflict, there was a less critical examination of the facts because we were a nation still overcoming the 9/11 syndrome and seeking vengeance,” she says. ”You did not have a vigorous public demanding the truth. If anything, I think we tend to point the finger too quickly at the news media when the rest of us should have been putting pressure on the media and the government to provide us with a well-grounded rationale for war with Iraq other than that Saddam is evil and must go. The public accepted Bush's simplistic rationale and so the media skipped along to the same tune..”

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The real "f" word "At Cornell University, government professor Theodore Lowi now aptly describes the George W. Bush administration as 'a toxic combination of God rhetoric, money, cronyism and severe moral hierarchy that poses a real threat of fascism for our nation."' t r u t h o u t - Norman Solomon | The News Media's Political "F" Word:

No comment other than it makes me think of Franken's book title...Cheney is at it again. washingtonpost.com: Cheney Energy Documents Remain Sealed

This is breaking news. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, has reversed the F.C.C.'s deregulation proposal from June 2003. DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Business

Redefining web logging as "standalone journalism."Chris Nolan - Politics from Left to Right: It's Not Just Blogging Anymore

Ratings of video feeds by Mark Glaser. It is interesting what criteria he uses to decide what is "good" and what is "bad."OJR article: The Best (and Worst) Video Feeds Online This posting was corrected thanks to a vigilant reader.

Dem Convention pool coverage to be Hi-def on Internet. TelevisionWeek -- Daily Television and Media News: "2004 Conventions Will Be Hi-Def on Internet: The High Definition National News Consortium said it will stream on the Internet the HD broadcast pool coverage of the 2004 Democratic and Republican national conventions. Web firm Globix will handle the streaming and will provide links for the pool feeds for the Democratic National Convention in Boston (from July 26 to 29) and the Republican National Convention in New York (from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2) for Web sites that want it. Participating Web sites with Windows Media Player will be able to offer the 16:9 aspect ratio to maintain the feel of the original HDTV, Globix said. -- Daisy Whitney "

Blogging audio from NPR.Bloggers get credentialed for Dem convention. NPR : Blogging: A Web Diary Tour

Remember RFID The little wireless chips that can be embedded most anywhere and give our environment the power to customize itself for us. But at what cost to privacy? Read on.washingtonpost.com: Embedding Their Hopes In RFID

I have had a link to "Ohmynews" for about a year. It is an idea whose time is here. I think lots of mid-career journos just haven't realized it yet. MSNBC - Is This the Future of Journalism?

Online reporting and legal issues. OJR article: States' Shield Laws Might Not Cover Online Journalists

OJR article: States' Shield Laws Might Not Cover Online Journalists

E-paperupdate. It is coming, sooner than you may think. Flexible, electronic, reuseable and the way of the future for those who work in print. Not replacing paper, but replacing paper where transience isn't an issue.Digital Deliverance: More Prototypes of Rollable E-Paper

Third screen adds to morass of acronyms, functions

Newsroom researcherNewsLab Strategies: Newsroom Researcher

More on blogging software as CMS systems. Open Source, so the price is right. MediaSavvy: Top 10 free and cheap content management systems

Winer is prescient, as usual. This is such a good idea that it probably won't be realized. I will see if I can get my Nokia doing radio, and then do a point by point report. The Doc Searls Weblog : Friday, June 4, 2004

Here are two views of what modern technology would have meant for D-Day Coverage, based on David Bauder's (AP) wire story. This is an interesting discussion and speculation. It brings into perspective the difference between an "eyewitness" report and looking at an event like D-Day in context and when its meaning can be assessed. At the time, the carnage was great, however in terms of the WWII itself, the price of the battle was worthwhile. News can't always be presented as unidimensional and fixed. What might appear today as hideously brutal could prove to be vital to ending a war. AP Wire | 06/05/2004 | How Would Modern Media Have Covered D-Day? From Newsday take on the same story.