A media roundup
By Chris Daly –First, let’s pause a moment and let this sink in: Eastman Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. This is the company that ruled photography in the 20th Century, the company that...
View ArticleG.P.S. and Y-O-U
By Chris Daly Phew! The Supreme Court (finally) got one right today. Ruling in a critical case that involves (among other things) your freedom to control who knows what about you, the Court said the...
View ArticleJournalism 101: Read the whole opinion
By Christopher B. Daly It comes down to this: two major news organizations (CNN and Fox News) blew their initial coverage of the most important Supreme Court ruling this decade. They did so because...
View Article“Wait, wait”: Would someone please impose an embargo on the news media
By Christopher B. Daly Kudos to the SCOTUSblog for this remarkable tick-tock on what went wrong in the initial reporting about the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health care plan back on June 28....
View ArticleMonday morning roundup
Odds & Ends: –Here’s David Carr on the “British invasion” of the high end of American media. (Why don’t they ever try to take our unpaid internships and crummy starting jobs?) –Here’s the Times’...
View ArticleSCOTUS does not understand freedom from religion
By Christopher B. Daly In its latest ruling on the role of religion in public life, the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong (again). The court issued a ruling this week written by the narrow majority of...
View ArticleSCOTUS: If you make journalists criminals, then only criminals can be...
by Christopher B. Daly It’s no surprise, I suppose, that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a New York Times reporter who has been seeking to avoid being sent to jail for his refusal...
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