Local News No Easy Conquest for Trump’s War on Media
Will Donald Trump’s poisonous scapegoating of our media ‘trickle down’ to state and local coverage? Maybe not. As we gird ourselves for...
Category: Media
Trumpsters Now Claim All Mainstream Media Is “Fake News”
By Turning Their ‘Fake News’ Election Trickery on Its Head, Right Wingers Seek to Erode a Pillar of Accountability ...
Did the Media Create Their Fame Monster?
When It Comes to Ratings and Clicks, Entertainment Trumps News Every Time Just when you thought the 2016 presidential campaign...
Media Competing in Digital Landscape by Revisiting Their Roots
Some “old school” leisurely activities that involve media–watching TV, flipping through glossy magazines and keeping up with local news–are helping steer mass media through a vast digital gauntlet. It doesn’t seem...
The ‘Blurred Line’ Between Song Piracy & Subconscious Imitation
Even with the absence of malice, a ‘substantial similarity’ can get a songwriter in trouble. Two high-profile cases of song...
‘Inspirational’ Book Displays Tout Conservative Provocateurs…
…but Not a Word About Pope Francis I’ve driven the Philadelphia-State College round-trip so many times that I believe...
Tech & Music Moguls Hold Hands, Cross Fingers
Apple Buys Celebrity-Run Music Streaming Outfit Despite the phenomenal growth of downloaded song sales during his company’s 11 years in the digital...
Conservative ‘Best-Sellers’ Mostly a Work of Fiction
Take a walk through your favorite book store, turn left or right to the section probably called Current Events, and you...
Ahmet Ertegun was ‘The Last Sultan’
When Making Records Mattered A review of The Last Sultan by Robert Greenfield. Robert Greenfield has done it again! The Last...
Their Business Model Shattered, Alternative Weeklies Face Finale or Reset
Here in Philadelphia, for those of us who love and admire the truth-telling in good journalism, venturing to our local...
Community Radio: Still Viable Amidst a Multitude of Choices
By Andrew Goutman Community radio. There is actually no precise definition for it, other than its call numbers occupy the...
The ‘Liberal Media’ Are Dead; Long Live Progressive Media
If you squint into the hodgepodge of hucksterism, misinformation and occasional brilliance that make up today’s American mass media, you...
Educator Ken Robinson on ‘Thinking Outside the Box’
Ken Robinson Explores the Creative Mind By Rachel Roggio “Education is not a linear process of preparation for the future: It...
