New MediaTheory

A friend sent me this YouTube clip of Father Pfleger a colleague of Obama pastor Reverend Wright being interviewed by a Fox News reporter in late March after the initial controversy over Reverend Wright had received a lot of negative publicity particularly from Fox. If you are in a hurry, you can get the flavor […]

The Second Draft asked me to look into a story by Ray Stoss at Pajamas Media about something called Accountability Journalism at the AP. It’s being introduced by their new Washington Bureau chief, Ron Fournier, over the objections of his predecessor Sandy Johnson.
Stoss bases his discussion of  accountability journalism on an article Fournier wrote last […]

The Second Draft asked me to comment on a story they are developing about a  report by CNN’s Ben Wedeman on recent events at Nablus in the West Bank. Yaacov Ben Moshe of The Breath of the Beast makes the case against Wedeman and CNN in two posts. The first entitled Nablus, Trashed or Staged? […]

Richard Landes calls my  attention  to this post at Augean Stables by his colleague Lazar reporting on how a desperate Zimbabwean mother fooled the New York Times by faking injuries to her son and claiming that they were caused by Mugabe’s thugs. They put it on their front page top and center. The details of […]

 
I love the smell of fauxtography in the morning and I will believe that the Grey Lady is really interested in exposing it when she beats Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs to the punch. Well done..again..Charles and hat tip Augean Stables and to Charles at LGF for the image.
But there’s more. One could take […]

In an absolutely true to form old media screw up CNN fired an up and coming news producer, Chez Panienza, because they discovered him blogging. He asked the HR flack who canned him here, exactly what he did wrong.
Right before I hung up, I asked for the “official grounds” for my dismissal, figuring the information […]

I was recently happily surprised to see a US presidential candidate - any candidate would do - show an awareness of the nature of the new media environment created by the Internet and in particular its darker side. I ran into this exchange near the end of this Pajamas Media interview of John McCain by […]

Today dramatic footage is often the primary goal, not the byproduct, of combat. The reality created by the media is what determines the outcome in the information war - not the reality on the ground. As Richard Landes of the Augean Stables asserts media really is a theater of war and has been since the […]

In response to discussion of this post on the subject of nuclear targeting Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club is explaining why he is “cautiously optimistic that the War on Terror can be won without recourse to large-scale bloodshed.”
On September 12 we were probably not very much weaker in a purely kinetic sense than […]

In my recent post Stirling Silver Button I talked about the particularly absurd conspiracy theory that asserts President Bush caused the 2004 tsunami by setting off a nuke in the Sumatra trench. Richard Landes picked it up and asked me from some links to it. I found a collection of links here and Richard wrote […]