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.
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Is the old media sustaining the old politics?
Somehow I found this link to a really interesting video from the Bill Moyers Journal program. I think it was on Twitter, but I can't remember. Too many RSS and Twitter feeds anymore to keep them straight, really.
The video isn't embeddable, regrettably. But it features NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discussing how the media and the politics of Washington are still going to be the same old game, despite the hopes of "change" from a new administration. There is some great insight and explainations of how much of a fixture the Washington Press Corps is and how they maintain the direction of the narrative.
I really reccomend watching this half-hour show.
The video isn't embeddable, regrettably. But it features NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discussing how the media and the politics of Washington are still going to be the same old game, despite the hopes of "change" from a new administration. There is some great insight and explainations of how much of a fixture the Washington Press Corps is and how they maintain the direction of the narrative.
I really reccomend watching this half-hour show.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Journalism and Objectivity outdone by Letterman?
David Letterman took former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to task on his show the other night. A blogger at a Tampa Bay newspaper was able to point out something that we have been talking about: Journalists having to hide behind the veil of objectivity.
Pretty interesting to see this bubbling up more and more in the journalism world.
Read the rest here.
"I've said this before about Jon Stewart; the power of non-journalists in these situations is that they don't have to pretend they don't have a point of view, and they can ask questions where the answer is almost beside the point. Letterman is essentially saying over and over to Blago, "I think you're a weasel," in a way that few traditional news anchors could manage without serious criticism."Eric Deggans
Pretty interesting to see this bubbling up more and more in the journalism world.
Read the rest here.
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