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.

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.

"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.

Facebook's BIG Obama Day

The blend of CNN and Facebook Connect generated over 1.5 million status updates related to the Inauguration Day festivities.

Could this be a step towards the model we were talking about in class with the blend of the two different notions of news sharing? Maybe, maybe not. But I think it sure is one step closer to convergence of the two and convergence of media platforms.

A hilarious remix

Here's a link to a video mashup about a girl that has never seen the original Star Wars trilogy but is asked to explain the plot based on what she has learned of the series and bits that she has seen. It's absolutely hilarious and creative but loaded with copyright infringement.

After reading the final section of the "Networked Publics" book and the observation that artists do not "really 'create' anymore, they reorganize" by Bourriaud (pg 151) jumped into my head.

Have a look.

Wikimedia from Wikipedia

Looks like Wikipedia is installing terabytes of server space to allow for more audio, video and other media files to be added to the growing resource site.

How will this effect the "communal construction" of reference information?

Video as a reference tool

This is a little off topic for right now, but I found this really interesting.

Here's an article from the NY Times highlighting how younger users of digital content are adapting and changing early notions of how information is found and consumed.

Do you think of searching YouTube for reference info first rather than using Google? Sounds like 9-year-olds are going through that process. The article highlights the fact that searches on YouTube have surpassed Yahoo! as the second most searched site, of course with Google in first. Funny thing, Google owns YouTube.

Lawrence Lessig vs. Stephen Colbert

Really interesting argument about copyright from a recent show. It's funny as hell.

I see aspects of both sides of the battle. I'm not sure that one side or the other is absolute, the future is most likely a blend of something in the middle. And it will be based on the type of the content and the content producer.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Lawrence Lessig

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Found this via a photography business blog that is hellbent on copyright protections. Take a read of John Harrington's freak out if you like.