This doesn’t go very deep into the idea, but I already agree with what Jason Silva is saying here about why targeted marketing might be a good thing. It gets rid of the crap and only shows us what we might be truly interested in or persuaded by. Sure it’s not perfect, but it can [...]
I really want to see this. The Newseum in Washington, D.C. is home to “JFK: Three Shots Were Fired”, an exhibit that wholly dedicates itself to the way news media covered the assassination of President Kennedy on the day and the days that followed. It was, as Newseum notes, one of the earliest forms of [...]
VHX PSA – The State of Distribution from VHX on Vimeo. An interesting video about how traditional media distribution cannot be directly applied to digital media distribution (despite what some companies are trying). [via]
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT, Kottke posted this video from a few years back of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe dissecting how news media reports on mass killings like this. Reminds me a bit about a section in the book It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off [...]
TRAILER: Black & White and Dead All Over from Lenny Feinberg on Vimeo. This is the trailer/teaser for the documentary film by Lenny Feinberg and Chris Foster called Black and White and Dead All Over. It’s about the major shift in recent years from traditional journalism to internet news reporting and how the proliferation of [...]
