- -: Opinion Journalism and the Politics of Language
July 17, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/07/Solutions_The_Future_Political_Landscape Talking Points Memo blogger Josh Marshall discusses the balance an opinion journalist must hold between political advocacy and informative reporting. ----- On the 60th anniversary of Orwell's Politics and the...
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- -: On Writing About Africa - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
July 17, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/07/Solutions_The_Future_Political_Landscape Award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault criticizes racist and sensationalist reporting on Africa. ----- On the 60th anniversary of Orwell's Politics and the English Language, George Orwell described p...
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- -: Old Media vs New Media on Sarah Palin
September 4, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/01/Game_Change_How_New_Media_Are_Affecting_08_Race Conservative media voices Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Tony Blankley and Peggy Noonan discusses the effects of the internet on traditional news journalism, citing rumors concerning Republican Vice P...
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- -: Porno Spam Sinks LA Times Wiki Experiment - Michael Kinsley
January 6, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/09/Michael_Kinsley_Creative_Capitalism Political journalist Michael Kinsley describes a failed LA Times experiment with posting an online editorial as an editable wiki. Nevertheless, Kinsley still believes experimentation may offer "a way out of the curr...
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- -: Can Philanthropy Save Journalism? - Jim Lehrer
April 9, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/05/NewsHour_with_Legendary_Journalist_Jim_Lehrer Jim Lehrer, author and news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says philanthropists could save the declining news industry by funding a "serious, nonprofit, major news gathering organization for eve...
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- -: Was Bernie Madoff Skyping Under House Arrest? - Rhonda Schwartz
April 16, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/04/Reporting_on_Domestic_Corruption Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News producer, describes the findings of her investigative team as they watched Bernie Madoff while under house arrest. Schwartz recalls, "He was sitting there happily, having a little Perrier, wor...
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- -: Protecting Human Rights with Flip Video and YouTube
May 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Spotlighting_Human_Rights_Digital_Photography_and_Video Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm, Executive Director of WITNESS, describes which advancing technologies are increasing the effectiveness of human rights advocacy. She foresees new technologies like vid...
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- -: Swine Flu, Pirates, and Other Media Distractions - Peter Phillips
June 11, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Censored_2009_The_Top_25_Censored_Stories_of_2007-08 Professor Peter Phillips argues that recent stories like the pirates off the coast of Somalia and the swine flu outbreak serve to distract people from truly important issues. He dissects both storie...
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- -: Outing by the Press Grounds for Libel?
July 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/23/The_Gay_Rights_Movement_Since_Stonewall Gay USA co-host Andy Humm criticizes the press for being afraid to report the sexual orientation of gay people. "Gayness is still pretty much the worst thing you can say about anybody in a newspaper," he says. W...
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- -: The Problem With Paper News - Chris Anderson
July 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how some newspapers will survive in a world of free. "There's two problems with newspapers: the news and the paper," says Anderson. ----- Ch...
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