I’m tired, and the sweat is running off of me in tiny rivers. The house we live in, built over 150 years ago, does not have air conditioning. It’s never bothered me before, but, tonight, as I lay here in bed, with a red-hot laptop balanced across my mountainous belly, and my sweat pooling in […]
Tag Archives: State of the News Media
The Gang of Six are serving their corporate masters, who don’t, by the way, create jobs
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Rants | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate profits, corporatocracy, deadly pet snacks, debt ceiling, Extreme Makeup Hoarders, Fortune 500, Gang of Six, Goldman Sachs, Good Morning America, job creation, lobbying, Matt Taibbi, Paris Hilton, pet killing, pet snacks, sarcasm, tax holiday, tax policy, tax repatriation, tax the rich, the sad state of journalism | 24 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, Pew Research Center, Ponzi, Ponzi hydra, Ponzi scheme, Poynter Institute, ratings, reporting, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism | 14 Comments