Zero TVers
The television industry is worried about a growing new category called “Zero TVers.” Not to be confused with people who don’t watch TV at all, these viewers will watch programming. But not what’s...
View ArticleThe next step in internet TV
As a follow-up to our ZeroTV discussion, I present to your information about Aereo, a website that will stream live television broadcasts that it picks up over the free airwaves. Broadcasters and...
View ArticleMedia finally covering abortionist’s murder trial
In Philadelphia, the abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for capital murder, having killed a patient through his ineptitude and babies born alive through his cruelty. The major media has...
View ArticleNew system for our “comments”
Patheos, which hosts this blog, is going to be making some major upgrades, including moving to a higher-end server, that should decrease load times, eliminate spam, prevent a host of problems, and make...
View ArticleLuther memes
I stumbled upon He Rice Tanned (read it fast), a collection of sometimes humorous Luther memes. Samples after the jump. (If you know of others, or other Christian-related, or other good ones of any...
View ArticleJournalism & vocation
Mollie Hemingway, who shamed the mainstream press into covering the Kermit Gosnell abortion mill murder trial, is getting attention for how she pulled that off. I appreciate her plug for vocation and...
View Article“A dagger at the heart” of a free press
Maybe we need to start worrying about those black helicopters after all. The Obama administration keeps confirming the alarms over intrusive government and the violation of civil liberties. In an...
View ArticleJournalists are turning on the White House
As I predicted, the news media is turning on the Obama administration. Not just because the Justice Department, trying to trace a leak, subpoenaed phone companies for a list of calls made and received...
View ArticleMaking fun of journalists
The inimitable Lutheran journalist Mollie Z. Hemingway satirically dismantles the practice of journalism as it is practiced today. The piece defies summary or excerpt. Just read it at Intercollegiate...
View ArticleIs the internet worth it?
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson argues that the internet is not worth it. Yes, it’s nice to get e-mail, watch YouTube, and have access to all this information. But, he maintains, the internet...
View ArticleThe media’s “delicious story”
According to Rem Rieder, writing in USA Today, the media constructed a story about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin that captured the public’s imagination but couldn’t stand up in court. Thus the...
View ArticleBreakthrough in implanting false memories
Scientists have successfully implanted false memories into mice. The researches are excited at prospect of applying the same processes to human beings, which they say holds promise for treating...
View ArticleBuying up the old-guard media
Jeff Bezos, the founder and owner of Amazon.com, has bought the Washington Post. That was just days after the New York Times unloaded the Boston Globe to the owner of the Boston Red Sox. But those...
View ArticleNews costs money
I like to read newspapers. Those big floppy papery things.* (*Who can catch that allusion?) I am aware, though, that fewer and fewer people share my affection. Among the young adults I know,...
View ArticlePay per emotional response
Chris Taylor at Mashable discusses how Google Glass (a set of glasses connected to Google) will change advertising. According to the patent application, the technology will track gazes, charging...
View ArticleLacking any sense of proportion
Mark Steyn tells about a dad who asked his 15-year-old son to hold his beer for a second so he could take a picture. Whereupon he got busted by the cops for giving alcohol to a minor. Mr. Steyn puts...
View ArticleStorming Wikipedia
Wikipedia depends on readers and volunteer editors to write, edit, and correct its entries. Theoretically, the vast network of contributors will make for an online encyclopedia that is accurate,...
View ArticleDefining who gets Constitutional rights
A Senate committee approved a “media shield” bill designed to protect journalists from having to reveal their sources and giving them protection from government surveillance. In doing so, the bill...
View ArticleVirtual evil in video games
“How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be?” That’s the title of a provocative essay for the New Yorker by Simon Parkin. When you read a work of literature featuring an evil person, you are in the...
View ArticleTop news stories of 2013
The Associated Press released its list of the top 10 news stories of 2013, based on polls of American editors and news directors. See the list after the jump. What would you add? What do you think...
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