With all the talk of banking reform in the news today, I thought that now might be a good time to remind folks about Lawrence Lessig’s attempts, through his organization, Fix Congress First, to rally support for the Fair Elections Now Act. As I suspect many of you know, regulating Wall Street, while critical, in […]
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It’s not just a matter of fixing Wall Street
Posted in Corporate Crime, Other, Politics | Also tagged call to action, campaign finance reform, campaign funding, Chamber of Commerce, corporate money, Fair Elections Now Act, Fix Congress First, get the money out of Washington, Lawrence Lessig, lobbying, money in politics, Scott Brown | 17 Comments
The state of journalism today
The folks at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center just issued a new report entitled, State of the News Media 2010, and, as you might guess, based on the fact that I’m writing about it here, it doesn’t paint a very rosy picture… Here’s a clip: …The numbers for 2009 reveal just how urgent these questions […]
Posted in Media | Also tagged 2010, advertising, AnnArbor.com, Detroit News, investigative reporting, new revenue models, news media, Ponzi, Ponzi hydra, Ponzi scheme, Poynter Institute, ratings, reporting, State of the News Media, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism | 14 Comments