Here's a really interesting column from The Week talking about how Jon Stewart could possibly be the most influential television personality after the build up to and subsequent dismantling of Jim Cramer.
It's a good read, and if you haven't watched any of the Stewart vs. CNBS/Cramer stuff, you should. Very interesting how the comedian has had to take over as the window to the deeper issues that have wrought havoc with mainstream media.
How'd all this start? Watch these below:
The Beginning
In Cramer we Trust
The Personality Clash
The Battle Previewed
Then the three-part Finale above.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Follow up post from Josh
Wanted to share a couple things that I didn't get to during my presentation.
Jon Stewart blasting away at Twitter:
And Jon completely taking CNBC to the cleaners about their "reporting" and rosy crystal ball commentary about the economy. Rick Santelli – the "reporter" that went ape on the trading floor complaining about bailouts – was supposed to be a guest on The Daily Show, but was a no show. Well, like when McCain bailed on Letterman, you don't bail on high profile talk show hosts.
CNBC didn't have a response it seems.
And one more:
Here's a blog/bitch session about Lessig's Creative Commons undermining the photography market. I can see points on both sides of the issue and still haven't decided what to really think about it. Very tricky to navigate some of them. If there are lots of "good enough" images that can be used under CC licenses why pay for images? Yet, if a art director or someone of the like needed quality work and found a photo through CC and licensed other images from a photographer for market prices the system worked, right? Still don't know...
Jon Stewart blasting away at Twitter:
And Jon completely taking CNBC to the cleaners about their "reporting" and rosy crystal ball commentary about the economy. Rick Santelli – the "reporter" that went ape on the trading floor complaining about bailouts – was supposed to be a guest on The Daily Show, but was a no show. Well, like when McCain bailed on Letterman, you don't bail on high profile talk show hosts.
CNBC didn't have a response it seems.
And one more:
Here's a blog/bitch session about Lessig's Creative Commons undermining the photography market. I can see points on both sides of the issue and still haven't decided what to really think about it. Very tricky to navigate some of them. If there are lots of "good enough" images that can be used under CC licenses why pay for images? Yet, if a art director or someone of the like needed quality work and found a photo through CC and licensed other images from a photographer for market prices the system worked, right? Still don't know...
Friday, February 20, 2009
All it takes is one
As we were talking about in class with regard to copyright, digital media is replicated so easily and nearly perfectly. And thus, we have U2's new album screw-up turned piracy nightmare. Seems the record company got all worked up over how torrents of the new album were spreading like wildfire, but it was the label that fumbled the ball at the 5-yard line.
Just for fun: DRM Self-righteousness
Still, as TechDirt’s Mike Masnick notes, there’s a lesson to be learned here. “At some point, folks in the music industry are going to (finally) recognize a rather simple fact: it just takes one digital copy of a song/movie/whatever to get out there, and it’s everywhere. You can’t stop it. No matter how annoying it is. No matter what laws it violates. It will happen.”Read the rest of the post over at Digital Daily.
Just for fun: DRM Self-righteousness
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Would you give up freedoms for safety?
Happened upon this article via the NY Times' Twitter feed today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html
Basically, it discusses the security flaws in the current iteration of the Internet and that some are expressing concern that we must scrap the entire network and start over. And in addition to starting over, abandon the ability to be anonymous for the sake of security and safety. In some respects, it's seems similar to the debate on national ID cards in an effort to stem terrorism and illegal immigrants.
What do you think? Are freedoms or safety more important?
I think that, just as is the case with freedom of speech, some will abuse freedoms at the harm of others. But everyone must learn to expect going into the arena of freedom there is an ever present possibility of being on the receiving end of another person's freedoms in the form of venom. I don't think you will be able to have complete discourse with barriers of protection. Imagine how stifled forms of tactical media and parody would be.
Does the Internet need to be improved? Absolutely. Even if the network evolved into a world of true identities and security, there would be a newly developed element of rouges and evil doers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html
Basically, it discusses the security flaws in the current iteration of the Internet and that some are expressing concern that we must scrap the entire network and start over. And in addition to starting over, abandon the ability to be anonymous for the sake of security and safety. In some respects, it's seems similar to the debate on national ID cards in an effort to stem terrorism and illegal immigrants.
What do you think? Are freedoms or safety more important?
I think that, just as is the case with freedom of speech, some will abuse freedoms at the harm of others. But everyone must learn to expect going into the arena of freedom there is an ever present possibility of being on the receiving end of another person's freedoms in the form of venom. I don't think you will be able to have complete discourse with barriers of protection. Imagine how stifled forms of tactical media and parody would be.
Does the Internet need to be improved? Absolutely. Even if the network evolved into a world of true identities and security, there would be a newly developed element of rouges and evil doers.
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