In my latest for the Guardian, I offer an update on a proposal to crack down on the Internet in Kazakhstan, which I earlier wrote about here and here.
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Obama and the media at 100 days
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a look at 100 days of the media covering the Obama presidency.
Guardian column nominated for award
My online media column for The Guardian has been nominated for a Syracuse University Mirror Award for the second straight year.
The categories have been changed around a bit since last year. This time I’m in the category of “Best Commentary — Digital,” along with Eric Alterman of the Center for American Progress, Megan Garber of the Columbia Journalism Review, Rachel Sklar of the Huffington Post, Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher and Clive Thompson of Wired.
The awards will be presented in New York City sometime in June.
The trouble with charging for content
In my latest for The Guardian, I gather together some thoughts on why newspapers can’t charge for online content.
The Washington Post versus George Will
In my latest for The Guardian, I take a look at the insurrection with the ranks of the Washington Post over George Will’s repeated mischaracterizations of the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming.
What we know about the Globe thus far
In my latest for The Guardian, I try to compress four days’ worth of blogging and tweeting on the fate of the Boston Globe into one 900-word summary.
Hard times for the Times
In my latest for The Guardian, I take a look at Mark Bowden’s exceedingly tough Vanity Fair profile of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Bowden may be right in arguing that Sulzberger is not up to the job. But given the implosion of the newspaper business, would better leadership have made all that much difference?
Daring to be dull
In my latest for The Guardian, I argue that media coverage of last night’s news conference represents the normalization of the Obama presidency. By daring to be boring, Barack Obama hopes to lower expectations for himself, if not necessarily for what he wants to accomplish.
The ties between journalism and community
In my latest for the Guardian, I argue that a new survey showing that people don’t make much of a connection between their local newspaper and civic life gets it exactly backwards. In fact, folks have lost interest in journalism because they’ve lost interest in democracy. For newspapers and Web sites to succeed, they’re first going to have to re-establish a sense of community.
Whole Foods in a time of recession
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a look at Whole Foods’ settlement with the Federal Trade Commission — a nostalgic artifact from a time when we could actually afford to worry about one high-priced natural-food store gobbling up another.