This passage comes from Dan Gillmor’s “Principles for a New Media Literacy,” originally published as part of the Media Re:public project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. I think it unwittingly provides a great example of why “number of followers” is a poor gauge of authority on Twitter (and any social [...]
The New York Times provides another article on the e-book industry. This one, published Dec. 23, looks at the success that the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Apple iPhone have had in pulling new customers into the e-book market. It’s a business-oriented article, to be sure, and it glosses over all of the deeper questions [...]
Correction: The title should have read that the paper was criticized for NOT publishing news of Obama’s win.
CNN reports about the 5,000-circulation Daily Herald in Salpulpa, Okla., which did not carry news of Barack Obama’s win in its Wednesday edition.
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Some townspeople, many of them African American, picketed outside the newspaper’s offices [...]
Even though I feel like my local newspaper completely dropped the ball when it came to providing timely coverage throughout election night, I have to give my respect to the staff’s work here in Gallatin County, Montana. I used to be a reporter on their staff, so I know how frustrating late nights waiting for [...]
News from the Montana political scene in Gallatin County. It looks like the line outside the county courthouse is long tonight. Wait times are expected to be at least three hours, and no election results will be released until all the votes are counted. Looks like a late night for the newspaper staff.
