"Mr. Stewart also promised to supply the crowd with signs if they did not bring their own, including as examples, “I Disagree With You, But I’m Pretty Sure You’re Not Hitler,” and “Take It Down a Notch, America."
#media
#politics
#satire
#usa
"You can say this for the technological revolution; it’s cut way down on television.” So writes Rebecca Christian in a column for the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque. She’s not alone in assuming that the increasing amount of time we devote to the web is reducing the time we spend watching TV. It’s a common assumption. And, like many common assumptions, it’s wrong. Despite the rise of digital media - or perhaps because of it - Americans are watching more TV than ever."
#media
#television
"In order to really thrive, in order to have the kind of committed, excellent, well-educated, media-engaged audience that we’ve always had — and to build that audience — we had to do something more than just 1,500 word pieces, and more than just explainers."
#journalism
#media
"For some damn reason or other there’s this lingering idea out there that the Internet is somehow fostering a global utopian democracy where everyone participates, no one is left out, and the right decision is always reached through reasoned debate and consensus."
#crowdsourcing
#social_networks
#media
"In the apparent interest of balanced reporting, equal voice is too often given to those whose opinions have no demonstrable basis in fact. Journalists owe it to their readers to subject the claims of climate skeptics to the same scrutiny that they apply to mainstream science."
#media
#journalism
#climate_change
