Tag: media

Better Media?

“The easiest thing in journalism is to create heat. The hardest is light. We’re in the light business.” NewsHour might be in the light business, but there are a lot of heavy hitters watching as PBS has become the network of record by booking the best and the brightest in their fields for interview and analysis.

there is hope for parts of the mainstream media: NPR is now the “you don’t treat me like i am an idiot.” on the other hand, a lot of media considers itself high quality but is total garbage, such as the NYT.

Truth to parallelism

We can speak truth to parallelism. So doofuses of the world: next time you excrete the words “NP-complete,” “solve,” and “instantaneous” anywhere near one another, brace yourselves for a Bennett-Bernstein-Brassard-Blitzirani the likes of which the multiverse has never seen.

Beirut and contradiction

I believe that the photo is stunning in the metaphor it creates about war photography. It tells us about the voyeurism of the photographer, of the act of taking photos in tragic situations: if there is a contradiction, it is in the encounter between art, beauty and tragedy. Covering a disaster in order to create a striking image is what Robert Capa did best, he became an icon for it and we, the viewers are becoming addicted to this art form.

Media Heatmap

To put things in perspective, shown data consists of the lead stories for each day of November 2004. New York was mentioned numerous times, and there was a story on Florida, hence the stretched area over US. Northern Europe was a source of several mentions also, hence the blip. Middle East was a heavy contributor and there were a couple of stories about Palestine, Sudan and Kenya, hence the stretched component over eastern Africa.

very nice. this has lots of potential

Boston Panic

The discovery of suspicious objects on bridges, near a medical center, underneath an interstate, and in other crowded public places has ignited fears across Boston, snarling traffic and sending state and local police scrambling across the city.

this is what happens if headless chickens run the news.
2007-02-09: Do you have what it takes to save Boston from the Lite Bright menace?
2007-03-01:

if it’s not an american flag, it’s probably a bomb.

heh. i wonder what happens if someone wraps a bomb in a flag? will they declare a war on flags? that would actually be neat.
2013-03-31: reminds me of their war against things with LEDs from a few years back. among their bumbling peers, boston pd are the most incompetent. so funny.

Boston Punk Zombies Are Watching You! The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city’s most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows.