The ‘Blurred Line’ Between Song Piracy & Subconscious Imitation
Even with the absence of malice, a ‘substantial similarity’ can get a songwriter in trouble. A handful of high-profile cases...
Category: Media
Apple Shutting Down iTunes! Well, Kind of, Maybe…
Nothing changes for Windows users. For Mac fanatics, a paywall looms. It’s official! At last week’s World-Wide Developers Conference in...
Trump Attacks on Media Having Opposite Effect on Aspiring Journalists
Journalism educators like Temple’s David Mindich are inclined to emphasize truth, accuracy and non-partisanship. Another day, another Trump attack on...
By Topic: Favorite Websites of One Learned Progressive
There are countless sources of progressive political information on the web. I narrow it down by topic. As you can...
Bite of the Apple: First iPods, Now iTunes?…All Gone
Is Spotify the spoiler in Apple’s U2 victory dance? $165 per share. That was the opening price for Spotify’s Initial...
Community Radio: Music With That Personal Touch
Good News! Public radio remains viable as it competes with a multitude of platforms Community radio. Also called public radio....
James O’Keefe’s Bad Faith Efforts to Embarrass Liberals Usually Go Down in Flames
Still waiting to hold this fraud accountable for ACORN’s demise. I’m sure you’ve heard of this guy. His specialty is...
Sinclair Broadcasting: A Much Bigger Threat Than Fox News
Trump TV? Pending television merger would have right wing provocateur Sinclair infiltrate 72% of American households Just when we had...
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...
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 Perhaps...
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...
‘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...
Educator Ken Robinson on ‘Thinking Outside the Box’
Ken Robinson Explores the Creative Mind… “Education is not a linear process of preparation for the future: It is about cultivating...
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...
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...
