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Getting Web design critiques
You may have noticed below that I'm looking for feedback on this site's redesign. I still am, but it's great to know that there's a community of designers out there who are willing to offer critiques, too. All you have to do in return is look at some of their sites. Web Designer Depot rounds up some of the options.
Sometimes I think the Huffington Post stretches things
Screenshot below from their home page this evening: I thought that was precisely their job description, but I guess it could also mean SCREAMING HEADLINE. (Here’s the story in question, with the more moderate headline “Supreme Court Justices Breyer And Scalia Explain Their Opposing Views.”)
Robert McChesney on press subsidies
I have lots of respect for Robert McChesney (see his “Labor and the Marketplace of Ideas: WCFL and the Battle for Labor Radio Broadcasting, 1927-1934”) but his recent interview on PBS’s NOW is almost embarrassing. He’s on the show to argue in support of increased subsidies for the press — which isn’t a terrible argument [...]
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Washington Post: Speak only when spoken to
We discussed some institutional legacies of journalism in one of my classes today, such as the idea that the newspaper or the broadcast anchor holds authority over what’s important in the world; the idea, as Walter Cronkite might have put it, that mainstream media control “the way it is.” Wouldn’t you know it? That view [...]
Also posted in Journalism Tagged arrogance, authority, Journalism, objectivity, reporters, washington post Leave a comment
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