A Model Media Ecologist

During the 2008 United States presidential election we experienced the first indication of a previously unknown political media ecology. Dri...

I don't ususally post on political events, leaving that task to my betters. Less frequently do I quote Maureen Dowd who I find generally...

I've just learned that Leonard Shlain died yesterday after a long struggle with brain cancer. I was first introduced to Dr. Shlain at th...

A fantastic stop action film. And the music is pretty good too.

Turnabout is fair play as Susan Boyle turns Les Mis into Les Millions in her now famous YouTube fairy tale. The Susan Boyle video clip that...

Under the tutelage of professors Neil Postman, Terry Moran and Christine Nystrom, it was the practice in the 1970's of New York Universi...

As they contemplated Season Four, Battlestar Galactica's writers confronted the narrative mess of the previous three years and exclaimed...

An homage to the guidance and sagacity of Columbia University Journalism Professor Ari Goldman. According to New York Magazine , when addres...

What we know about the death of newspapers -or- Do 400,000 Twitters = 1 New York Times? If you still read newspapers and magazines, or watc...

Being snowed in would be much better if the weather wasn't so terrible and we could do something with the free time. After all, I spent...

Ranking blogs is so "old media". There was a time when Time Magazine was a truly national magazine, without an obvious political ...

(h/t Peter Blechman)

Film criticism prospers when time flies like a boomerang. In the current issue of The New Yorker , David Denby bemoans the decline of the Ac...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic The final season of Battlestar Galactica has begun and the teaser comme...

Has anyone ever done a cost/benefit analysis of corporate taxes? I'm sure there are accounting tools which would let us estimate how muc...