Over on my blog, I have a request for applications in the following areas: (yes, I'm also googling for these, searching Sourceforge, etc., but if anyone has recommendations I'm interesting in hearing them)
I've figured out the problem I've been having with comments on my
From PressThink, talking about James W. Carey:
Carey thinks we should "value the press in the precise degree that it sustains public life, that it helps keep the conversation going among us." We should "devalue the press" in the degree that it seeks only to inform us or, worse, "turn us into silent spectators."
PoliPundit has, on the left-hand side of its site, the following blurb:
Elections and politics with a Conservative bent. If you're a political junkie, get your fix here!
Every once in a while, I'll come across something online I feel a compulsion to share or comment on. Every once in a while, I'll come across a thought I feel a compulsion to share. Sometimes I do that by posting a journal entry. Sometimes I do that in some other way.
I think the idea journalists have been defending when they talk about ``objective [sic] journalism'' is what I am tentatively calling ``factoid journalism''. That is, they simply want us to know the events, the facts, etc. This does not square with ``speaking truth to power''; I leave resolving that discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.
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