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Is Silicon Valley Racist?
In one of those remarkable ironic coincidences, I found myself reading Violet Blue’s latest post to her Pulp Tech blog on ZDNet, “Silicon Valley’s Race Problem,” shortly after I began reading Michael Tomasky’s latest contribution to The New...
Soledad O’Brien Host of CNN’s “In America” to Deliver Opening Keynote Address At PRSA 2011 International Conference
Soledad O’Brien, an award-winning special investigations correspondent and host of CNN’s “In America” documentaries, will deliver the opening keynote address at the PRSA 2011 International Conference, Oct. 15–18, in Orlando, Fla. O’Brien will...
Beyonce’s Unreleased Recording of “God Bless The USA” Now on the ITunes Store
Moved by recent news events and the re-opened wounds of 9/11 families, Beyonce has announced the release of her recording of the Lee Greenwood-penned “God Bless The USA.” Both artists and Columbia Records are donating their proceeds to New...
I Want My Al Jazeera!
I began last month by supporting the case Alessandra Stanley made for providing Al Jazeera English as a channel option on American television on the ArtsBeat blog of The New York Times. I concluded with a Post Script providing a hyperlink to the Al...
Abhishek Bachchan: Glad To Be Part Of A Cause
It seems that Bollywood hero Abhishek Bachchan was pleasantly surprised by a nine-year-old girl. Abhishek Bachchan had recently attended an award ceremony that felicitated sixteen people for taking up a cause. Abhishek was the chief guest of the program.The...
Terror Pornography
Last month, in posing the “inconvenient hypothesis” that there was a pornographic quality to the propaganda photographs that Dorothea Lange took of the destitute victims of the Great Depression, I drew upon Plato’s “Republic”...
Advances in the Cohabitation of News And Advertising
There is nothing particularly new about the close relationship between the reporting of news and the advertising that pays institutions to do the reporting. Some of it is a matter of common sense: One does not run an advertisement for an airline...
Entertainment Wins More Ground on Television
The first time I had a cable feed delivered to my home (a condominium in Stamford, Connecticut), the thing I enjoyed most was the Headline News channel run by CNN. This was before HBO offerings were particularly interesting; and, while “A&E”...
