Political blogging and community
July 23, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
I've got an essay in the summer issue of Nieman Reports on political blogs and what the traditional media can learn from them.At their worst, political blogs of the left and right do little more than ...The Globe takes the GOP's bait
July 23, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
The Boston Globe takes dictation from the Republican National Committee today, turning an innocuous remark by a Barack Obama adviser into evidence that Obama is so arrogant he's already acting like he...Foreign policy
July 22, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a look at "The Changing Newsroom," a new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and conclude that the authors get it half-right: metropolitan newspa...Style question
July 22, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
Another one for the brain trust. When I use block quotes, I do not use quotation marks. I've got an example from this morning — my post on the McCain op-ed. The indented text is a direct quote from Mc...Checking in with ethnic news
July 22, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
I've got a feature on the New England Ethnic Newswire in the new issue of CommonWealth Magazine. The NEWz, a Web site that aggregates the best of the local ethnic press, is expanding into original jou...Technology Tuesday
July 22, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
We are celebrating in Media Nation. The AirPort Express really did configure itself.I called Apple customer service, and a terrific guy walked me through it. I think what happened yesterday was (a) I ...McCain's factually inaccurate op-ed
July 22, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
The John McCain op-ed piece that was rejected by the New York Times contains at least one bit of factually inaccurate information about Barack Obama. That alone is sufficient reason to send it back fo...Keeping the heat on the heat
July 21, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
In case you missed it, Kevin Cullen has a first-rate column in today's Boston Globe on the death of David Woodman following last month's Celtics victory. Cullen speaks with a fan named John Rufo, who ...What liberal media?*
July 21, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
Check out the nominally liberal Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, who absolutely unloaded on Barack Obama in Sunday's paper in a piece headlined "The Audacity of Ego." Ouch.No doubt Obama is posse...Technology Monday
July 21, 2008 medianation.blogspot.com
Which is another way of saying all is not right in Media Nation.Got the digital box from Comcast this morning. I only had to go back once before everything was working properly.Now I am dealing with o...