In my latest for the Guardian, I continue to explore Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book — and consider why the idea of paid content draws such derision from the digital priesthood.
Tag: Guardian
An unlikely-son campaign
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a look at how a conservative Mormon named Mitt Romney managed to use liberal Massachusetts as his launching pad for a presidential campaign.
The varieties of heroism
In my latest for the Guardian, I parse recent incidents in New York and Boston that call into question the meaning of heroism. We should realize that a hero is defined by what someone does, not by who he is.
Fly me to the moon
My latest for the Guardian takes a look at why Dennis Kucinich is being treated like a raving nut for saying he once saw a UFO, while no one bats an eye at Mike Huckabee’s rejection of evolution.
Rebel with a Kos
I’ve got a second piece in the Guardian this week, and it’s on the Daily Kos, whose founder, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, gave the keynote speech at a conference last week at Boston University on “New Media and the Marketplace of Ideas.” As you’ll see, Moulitsas partied like it was 2003. Can’t we all just get along?
Good riddance to the cult of suffering
In my latest for the Guardian, I take on so-called Red Sox fans who are nostalgic for those losing days (and years, and decades) that preceded 2004. (Yes, that means you, Brian McGrory.) This actually went up on the Guardian’s Web site Monday night, so apologies for not posting earlier.
Water, water everywhere
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a jaundiced view of the campaign against bottled water.
The trouble with prior restraint
In my latest for the Guardian, I argue that Superior Court Judge Merita Hopkins’ prior-restraint decision against WHDH-TV (Channel 7) last week is part of the broader culture war against journalism.
Public speech, private forums
My latest for The Guardian takes one last look at Verizon’s attempt to ban pro-choice text messages from its cell-phone network. Verizon may have backed down quickly, but the issue — free speech in a public square that is increasingly in the hands of private owners — isn’t going away.
Blumenthal defends Rather
Earlier this week, Sidney Blumenthal wrote a long piece for Salon headlined “Dan Rather stands by his story,” based on the false premise that it’s somehow necessary to rehabilitate Rather in order to believe George W. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard service in the early 1970s.
Several Media Nation readers are using Blumenthal’s piece to attack my Guardian column on Rather. I have posted a response here.