Thursday, April 18, 2002
Today's personalized press is more accurate (and better looking) than it was a century ago, but it fails to do the most important thing newspapers used to do -- empowering citizens by immersing them in a common news culture.
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Kevin Barnhurst and John Nerone, who assert that the redesigned Wall Street Journal is the last signal that the era of broadly shared experiences are over in American culture.
Posted: 1:11 PM
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I do have regular Americans who write me complaining about the concentration of the media and viewpoints, certainly. But I also have a lot of neighbors who yawn at the whole thing. ... If anything, I think we feel a tad besieged that we live in all-consuming media environment every second. ... I think to the average consumer this is too sublime a concept for a lot of them to be agitated by.
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Michael Powell, the Federal Communications Commission chairman, on media power being consolidated in the hands a few large companies.
Posted: 1:00 PM
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Sunday, April 14, 2002
If the goal is to formulate policy that is based on science so that it is made effective, then this program is a way to ensure that the next generation of scientists are in the pipeline.
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Dr. Daniel I. Rubenstein, chairman of the ecology and evolutionary biology department at Princeton, on a fellowship program for graduate research in the environmental sciences that the Bush administration is eliminating.
Posted: 1:11 PM
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Saturday, April 13, 2002
The problem with Shapiro's view is that nobody really knows what kind of news he wants to see on TV or read about in the morning paper. News is, by definition, the stuff we didn't know yesterday (or 10 minutes ago).
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John Levesque of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with a point in the debate over whether news organizations should give the public what is important or what it wants.
Posted: 1:08 PM
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