New Orleans Increasingly the definitions of journalism are devolving into a simple proposition: news is where you find it, and a journalist is whoever might have brought the story to you. Old school journalists, newspapers trying to hold on to their business model, and news and broadcast institutions long dedicated to acting as voices for …
Tag: David Carr
The Arrogance of Newspaper Monopolies
New Orleans Here comes another report from guinea pig land. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become ground zero for some bizarre and sometimes unfortunate social experiments, like the fact that we are the largest charter school laboratory in the country. Just because we have proven we are resilient does not mean …
Mirror Sites, Domain Hosts, and Wikileaks Cyber War
New Orleans I’ve got to admit that the more there is a bully boy, gang up on Wikileaks by governments, businesses and cowards, the more I’m sympathetic to their situation and the need for all of us to step up some way or another. My hero of the day is Toronto-based EasyDNS, a domain registration …