A Distinctive Taste
A collection and interpretation of media and influences. Designed for the mindset that appreciates style, substance, and creativity.
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Instead of asking whether WikiLeaks is journalism or not, we should ask ‘what kind of journalism is WikiLeaks creating?’Charlie Beckett, founding director of POLIS at the London School of Economics, WikiLeaks As Journalism. (via futurejournalismproject)
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Despite many well-intentioned people in the so-called media reform movement, reform measures via government agencies have rarely worked at the federal level. This is why we must all be the media, we must create and share our own transparently sourced, fact-based news, and we must support independent voices that are doing the same. We cannot depend on those that have created the problems of the news media, contributed to problems of the news media, and benefited from those conditions to take heed and go about fixing said problems in the public interest. That has not, and likely will not happen.
Mickey Huff, Director, Project Censored, to Truth-Out.org: Is the Corporate Media Still Censoring Stories?
For 35 years, Project Censored has released its list of the year’s most important underreported — or “censored” — stories by traditional media. Research was originally conducted by students at Sonoma State University in California but now includes research from students and faculty from 30 universities around the country.
Censored 2012 will be released in later this month on the Project Censored Web site.
(via futurejournalismproject)
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Mexico’s drug war has killed over 35,000 with violence spread throughout the country.
Last week, the bodies of Ana Marcela Yarce Viveros, founder of the political magazizine Contralinea, and Rocio González Trapaga, a freelance reporter, were found just outside of Mexico City.
The murders bring the media death toll in that country to 10 this year. Yes, small numbers compared to the overall total but significant in that it makes Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists.
Via the Guardian:
Two female journalists were found dead on Thursday in a Mexico City park. They were naked, with their hands and feet bound, and it appears that they were strangled…
…Their killings follow a pattern of murders by organised crime gangs and drug cartels. But they are the first such killings of media workers in the nation’s capital city.
shout out to:futurejournalismproject
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How to Get Around the New York Times Paywall, a 49 Second Tutorial
The one sentence summary: Go to the article you’d like to read and delete everything in the address bar from the question mark onward.
