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Shock Jocks Video Q&A

Posted by MediaChannel on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Ethics, Talk Shows, Books

Rory O’Connor answers frequently asked questions about his new book, Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio.

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A Company Promises The Deepest Data Mining Yet

Posted by NY Times on 20 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Media Freedom, New Media, Google, Clear Channel, Books, privacy, Human Rights, Internet

By Louise Story, NY Times
The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider.

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Joseph Wilson: Novak ‘Going To Hell For His Lies’

Posted by The Raw Story on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Journalism, CIA, Books

By Nick Juliano, Raw Story
To Wilson, Novak’s “I’m a victim” defense is little more than a last resort aimed more at upping his book sales than setting the record straight.

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On The Media: War Stories (Audio)

Posted by On The Media on 23 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, Journalism, World Press, Iraq War, U.S. Military, Books

By On The Media, NPR
As a media liaison for the Marines during the early days of the Iraq War, Josh Rushing was stuck between his military superiors and reporters at Al Jazeera. Four years later, Rushing is a reporter for that very network. In his new book, he writes about his unusual career path from marine to war correspondent.

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Media Savvy: In The Field Of Journalism, Fark.com Finds The Fertilizer

Posted by The Sacramento Bee on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Fox News, CNN, US, Blogs, Politics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Pop Culture, Books, Alternative Press

By Sam McMannis, The Sacramento Bee
From both a media and an entrepreneurial perspective, the rapid evolution of Fark.com is as dizzying as it is impressive.

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The Cult of the Amateur

Posted by NY Times on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, New Media, MySpace, YouTube, Books

By Michiko Kakutani, NY Times
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which participatory sites like MySpace and YouTube democratizate the world by presenting more information, more perspectives, more everything, and most without filters or fees. Yet a prominent author warns, there is a dark side as well.

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