The primary role of journalists on the front lines is to do your best to tell a story in a situation when truth is not always readily available. It's also vital to tell what you see and question what you don't see, as well as to provide context to complicated issues. Some journalists might take too many risks, but risk and danger are inherent in combat reporting. We have to know the difference between calculated risk and foolish risks. The outcome of media fecklessness is self fulfilling prophecy via Sam Vaknin Author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited
The Blog, The Press, The Media: A formula for unchecked power
The government is bigger and stronger than ever.
The media are fragmented. It's a perfect formula for the government's divide-and-conquer strategy. So the state can curl its fist anytime it wishes, confident it can smash any single one of us, one by one by one
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• Live your life so that whenever you lose, you're ahead Federal government rises as mainstream media clout drops [The yahoo show has gotten a little newsier now, a little harder, a little less tabloidy - No more searching dozens of sites to find the jobs that you want. We've already collected jobs from the major web sites you know, and also the hard-to find ones you may have been missing Hot Jobs ; What is it with job seekers who also write blogs? Bloggers Need Not Apply ; Like it or not, TV is the 800-lb. gorilla of popular culture. And 'American Idol' is the most-watched program on TV. We can't and shouldn't ignore it Why does WP write about "American Idol," other TV shows? ]
• · Why it’s time for the press to stop cowering before its critics; I revealed in yesterday's taping of the McLaughlin Group that Time magazine's e-mails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury Ask not for whom the turd blossoms... ; Wired magazine, the bible of the tech set, may have its finger on the pulse of all that's cool. But the San Francisco publication has been using decidedly uncool tactics when it comes to getting some people to renew their subscriptions Wired subscriber gets a jolt
• · · It just feels like a day when nobody really won ... My God, how did it come to this? Miller's first hours of confinement strike her as surreal ; Has Miller committing an honorable act of civil disobedience? or Miller is in jail because she pledged confidentiality to a rat ; Putting reporters in jail for reporting is wrong
• · · · Lawrence E. Walsh, independent counsel in the Iran-Contra probe of Reagan administration officials, says he never considered taking action against reporters and couldn't imagine a justification for it. "I felt it was up to me and my associates to conduct our own investigation and not force a reporter to do it for us - I don't see why Fitzgerald needs to mess with journos A Prosecutor Who Didn't Back Down; Questions Remain on the Leaker and the Law ; Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony Power to the mogul
• · · · · In an amber-lit auditorium tucked away in New York's Greenwich Village, several world-renowned writers gathered a couple of months ago to discuss how literature might determine the shape of Europe after communism Freedom fighter ; Blogs seen as powerful new tool in U.S. court fight ; We’re on a road trip this summer to meet our members, get great stories, and promote citizen journalism iTalk
• · · · · · How much can happen in 10 years? A lot. The biggest changes have been in personal communication - the internet, the mobile phone and pay TV. Graeme Philipson looks at how technology has changed our lives The big bang ; Is journalism a profession, or more a craft or trade? Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press...that cannot be limited without being lost Is Journalism A Bona Fide Profession?; Press monitors: We never sleep And a Silence Fell Across the Land ; Max Hansen suggests that bloggers are gonna have to be journalists If Blogging Isn’t Journalism, It Will Be