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Showing posts with label New Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Media. Show all posts

Sunday, August 09, 2020

It's About Time

I don't know - maybe there's one positive aspect that comes from Cult45's constant attacks on democratic institutions. Maybe some segments of "traditional" media are experiencing an increase in subscriptions and general support from the public, and that's why it just seems like Time Magazine's announcement of their latest online edition is a bit showy - cool and all, but showy.


Thursday, August 04, 2016

Propaganda Works


Cool story, bro.  

But wait - that's not Jacksonville, that's Cleveland.  And oh gosh, that's the victory parade for the Cavaliers when they beat the Warriors for the NBA championship a coupla months ago.

Oops.

Dang - Breitbart lied to us?  Another illusion shattered.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Some Kinda Of Sick Sense

Today's tweet, and holy fuck - this makes the whole vulgar charade into an even bigger shit show than we thought.



Here're the first few graphs from the Vanity Fair piece:
Every election cycle has its own breakout media star. In 1992, it was CNN. A few years later, it would be an e-mail blast called the Drudge Report. By 2000, the country had more or less been neatly delineated between MSNBC and Fox News households. The 2008 election introduced Politico and the Huffington Post to the adults’ table. BuzzFeed joined in 2012. 
The breakout media star of 2016 is, inarguably, Donald Trump, who has masterfully—and horrifyingly—demonstrated an aptitude for manipulating the news cycle, gaining billions of dollars worth of free airtime, and dominating coverage on every screen. Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.
Trump is indeed considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States. According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the “audience” currently supporting him. He has also discussed the possibility of launching a “mini-media conglomerate” outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC. He has, according to one of these people, enlisted the consultation of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns the The New York Observer. Trump’s rationale, according to this person, is that, “win or lose, we are onto something here. We’ve triggered a base of the population that hasn’t had a voice in a long time.” For his part, Kushner was heard at a New York dinner party saying that “the people here don’t understand what I’m seeing. You go to these arenas and people go crazy for him.” (Both Kushner and Ivanka Trump did not respond to a request for comment.)

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Meanwhile, Back At The Planet

I hate it when I get to thinking there's more truth being spoken by fictional characters on a TV show than by anybody in any position of authority anywhere here in These United States of Opinion-As-Reality.

At the same time, I wonder if this is just to see if anybody's listening. 

And I wonder if this little vignette is simply a plot device in Aaron Sorkin's devious little brain. 

And what if it's only an attempt to illustrate his other point about Crowd Sourcing and the dangers of instant reactions due to the immediacy of social media driving the mob, which is masquerading as "true democracy"?

And I wonder if the whole thing is so twisty-turny that it spins off into the infinite numbers of universes where everything that can happen does happen, and all you have to do to make it real is to say it's real.

And what about the very very very very real shit hitting the fan because of Climate Disruption?

and and and - fuck, I hate my brain sometimes.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

New Journalism

Andrea Seabrook left NPR a little while ago and has (finally) put up her first episode of DecodeDC.


You can go to Mule Radio and subscribe via iTunes or RSS for free.

And this is the tune playing in the background at the end of the piece:





Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The New News

I didn't know this bunch until today, so I don't know if they have real chops or if they're just out there with a camera and too much time and money on their hands.

Anyway, here's a taste of VICE:

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Progressive Roster

Lifted directly from Crooks and Liars, and with a hat tip to The Professional Left.

Here's a list of Progressives doing their thing in the world of "New Media":

PART 1


  • All Power To The Positive—Featuring Sensei Gregory C. Lewis and Jacob “The Jacobin” Brown (radio)
  • Alternet Radio Hour—With Joshua Holland (radio)
  • The Anonymous Show—With Mr. X aka John Smith (radio)
  • BearMan Radio Show—Featuring the BearMan (radio)
  • Blacking It Up—Featuring Elon James White, L. Joy Williams and Aaron Rand Freeman (radio)
  • The Blatant Minority—Featuring Greg Hanson (radio)
  • Bob and Chez Show—Featuring Bob Cesca and Chez Pazienza (radio)
  • The Breakdown—With Richard Eskow (radio)
  • Brookland CafĂ©—(radio)
  • Captain Jack Show—With Captain Jack (radio)
  • Clearing the FOG (Forces of Greed)—With Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers (radio)
  • Coffee Party Radio—Featuring Annabel Park and Coffee Party volunteers (radio)
  • Create the Change—(radio)
  • The DC Sports Beat—With Mitch Malasky (radio)
  • DC Voice’s Education Town Hall—With Thomas Byrd (radio)
  • Democracy Now—With Amy Goodman (video/radio)
  • Digital Politics Radio—With Karen Jagoda (radio)
  • The DMZ at BloggingHeads.TV—With Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis (video)
  • Earth Radio One—Featuring Doctor Drake and Doctor Truth (radio)
  • Equal Time Radio—With Frank Blair, Traci Kelly, Andrew Bacon (radio)
  • The Matthew Filipowicz Show—Featuring Matthew Filipowicz (radio)
  • Filter Free Radio—With Jacob Dean (radio)
  • Fireside Chats at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)
  • The Flaming Sword of Justice—With Ben Wikler (radio)
  • Foreign Entanglements at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)
  • The Richard Fowler Show—With Richard Fowler (radio)
  • The Frank Factor—With Frank (radio)
  • Friedersdorf at BloggingHeads.TV—With Conor Friedersdorf (video)
  • The Glenn Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Glenn Loury (video)
  • The God Above God—Aeon Byte (radio)
  • GoLeft TV—Featuring Mike Papantonio (video)
  • Green Power—Featuring Akili West (radio)
  • GRITradio—With Laura Flanders (radio)
  • The Thom Hartmann Show—Featuring Thom Hartmann (radio)
  • ill doctrine—Featuring Jay Smooth (video)
  • In Deep and Live From the Left Coast—With Angie Coiro (radio)
  • In Your Face Radio—With JD & Greg Zollo (Radio)
  • The Inside Scoop—With Mark Levine (radio)
  • Leaning Left—With Rutherford Lawson and Sandi Behrns (radio)
  • Left Jab Radio—Featuring Mark Walsh and Dave Goodfriend (radio)
  • Liberal Oasis Radio Show—Featuring Bill Scher & Traci Olsen (radio)
  • The Josh Lopez Show—Featuring Josh Lopez (radio)
  • The Luv Lounge—Featuring Jamal Muhammad, aka Dj One Luv (radio)
  • Majority Report—Featuring Sam Seder (video)
  • The Leslie Marshall Show—Featuring Leslie Marshall (radio)
  • Media Matters Radio—With Bob McChesney (radio)
  • The Stephanie Miller Show—With Stephanie Miller (radio)
  • Moment of Clarity—Featuring Lee Camp (video)
  • MOMocrats—Progressive mom bloggers writing about politics from a mom's perspective (radio)
  • The Shannyn Moore Show—Featuring Shannyn Moore (radio)
  • The More Me Show—With DJ Downtown and Eddie Herradura (radio)
  • Moyers and Company—Featuring Bill Moyers (video)
  • The Nation Conversations—With various hosts (radio)
  • One on the Right—Maine politics with Gerald Weinand (radio)
  • The Other Side—With Ron Moten (radio)
  • The David Pakman Show—Featuring David Pakman (radio)
  • The Posner Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Sarah Posner (video)
  • Power To The People—With Mike (radio)
  • The Power To The People Radio Program—Featuring The Bedouin (radio)
  • The Bill Press Show—With Bill Press (radio)
  • The Professional Left—Featuring Driftglass & Blue Gal (radio)
  • The Professor Rex Show—Florida politics with Professor Rex aka Kenneth Quinnell (radio)
  • Progressive Blend Radio—On Radio or Not (radio)
  • Progressive News Network—Florida politics (and beyond) with Richard W. Spisak Jr. (radio)
  • Ring of Fire—With Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder (radio)
  • Roots Radio—(radio)
  • The Nicole Sandler Show at Radio or Not—With Nicole Sandler (radio)
  • The Ed Schultz Show—Featuring Ed Schultz (radio)
  • The Sara Schulz Show—Wisconsin politics with Sara Schulz (radio)
  • The Scream Cafe—With Grobeck and Monkeyhead (radio)
  • The Nancy Skinner Show—Featuring Nancy Skinner (radio)
  • Soulful Green Living—With Vicki Blues (radio)
  • SpeakEasy—With Kymone Freeman and Ron Pinchback (radio)
  • Take Action News—With David Shuster (radio)
  • Talking Left—With Danielle, the Left Neck Chick, and Shane-O (radio)
  • This Week In Blackness—Featuring Elon James White (video)
  • The Trees Radio—With Stone Kawala (radio)
  • True Blue Talk—With Steve M. (radio)
  • Turn Up the Night—With Kenny Pick (radio)
  • Virtually Speaking—Featuring Jay Ackroyd, Stuart Zechman, Alan Boyle, Tom Levenson and various other hosts (radio)
  • Washington Squares at BloggingHeads.TV—With Michael Brendan Dougherty (video)

  • PART 2
  • A World of Progress Radio—(radio)
  • Worldwise at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)
  • The Wright Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Robert Wright (video)
  • The Young Turks—Featuring Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, Brian Unger, Wes Clark Jr., RJ Eskow (video)
  • Your World News—From the University of Maryland (radio)

  • AFGE "Inside Government" — From the American Federation of Government Employees (radio)
  • The Alyona Show — Featuring Alyona Minkovski (radio)
  • America's Workforce — With Ed "Flash" Ferenc (radio)
  • Julian Assange on RT — Featuring Julian Assange (radio)
  • At the Chalk Face — Education with Shaun Johnson and Tim Slekar (radio)
  • The Big Picture — With Thom Hartmann (video)
  • The BradCast — With Brad Friedman (radio)
  • Building Bridges — Labor-themed show (radio)
  • Cognitive Dissonance the Podcast — With a heavy emphasis on critical thinking (radio)
  • The Tim Corrimal Show — With Tim Corrimal (radio)
  • Democratic Talk Radio — Featuring Stephen Crockett (radio)
  • Electric Politics — With George Kenney (radio)
  • The Norman Goldman Show — With Norman Goldman (radio)
  • The Green News Report — With Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen (radio)
  • Heartland Labor Forum — Radio show about working families from Kansas City (radio)
  • The Keiser Report — With Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert (radio)
  • Labor Neighbor Radio — Labor-themed radio show from Washington state (radio)
  • Local Edge Radio — North Carolina politics and beyond featuring Blake (radio)
  • The Mike Malloy Show — With Mike Malloy (radio)
  • The News Dissector — Featuring Danny Schecter (radio)
  • Progressive Radio Network — With various hosts (radio)
  • Revolution Boston — With hosts including Jim Lowenstern, Jeff Santos, Samantha Clemens, Brad Bannon and others (radio)
  • The Randi Rhodes Show — Featuring Randi Rhodes (radio)
  • RT TV — With various hosts (video)
  • The Lifeboat Hour — With Michael Ruppert (radio)
  • The Rick Smith Show — Featuring Rick Smith (radio)
  • This Is Hell — Featuring Chuck Mertz (radio)
  • Where Is the Outrage? — Featuring Errington C. Thompson, MD (radio)
  • Workers Independent News — With various hosts (radio)
  • Working Family Radio Network — With various hosts (radio)
  • Your Guide To Natural Living — Featuring Gary Null (radio)