’American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,’ by Bernard-Henri Lévy - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
►http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/29keillor.html
’American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,’ by Bernard-Henri Lévy - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
►http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/29keillor.html
Wikipedia serves as essential Internet news source on the Virginia Tech shootings - The New York Times
►http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/americas/23iht-wiki.1.5405005.html?_r=2
Latest Wall Street Innovation: Twitter Trading | Center for Media and Democracy
►http://www.prwatch.org/node/9875
#Wall_Street computers are beginning to analyze and trade on a wide array of media sources –- without human intervention. Graham Bowley from the New York Times has done a series of articles recently on high-speed trading that are a must read. From the Times:
“Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages – and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets.”
:-(
(j’essaie de faire chuter la Bourse)
#Design de #livres sur #écran
►http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-simpler-page
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The inconsistency in which the physical page is mimicked on a tablet leaves readers disoriented, unaware of their position in the context of the greater whole, and unable to easily scan back.
U.S. Air Force blocks NYT, Guardian over WikiLeaks | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BD6CI20101214
The U.S. Air Force has blocked employees from visiting media websites carrying leaked WikiLeaks documents, including The New York Times and the Guardian
The media’s authoritarianism and WikiLeaks - #WikiLeaks - Salon.com
►http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/10/wikileaks_media
Beyond the need to destroy this pervasive zombie lie about WikiLeaks’ conduct in the diplomatic cables disclosure, the broader point here is crucial: the media’s willingness to repeat this lie over and over underscores its standard servile role in serving government interests and uncritically spreading government claims. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has an excellent analysis today documenting how, in the wake of 9/11, they dropped all pretenses of checking those in political power and instead began explicitly proclaiming — as The New York Times’ chief stenographer and partner-of-Judy-Miller, Michael Gordon, suggested — that “capturing the dominant view within the government was the job [of journalists], even if that view was wrong.” As Rosen writes, “our press has never come to terms with the ways in which it got itself on the wrong side of secrecy as the national security state swelled in size after September 11th,” and thus: “To understand Julian Assange and the weird reactions to him in the American press we need to tell a story that starts with Judy Miller and ends with Wikileaks.”
That’s why this cannot-be-killed lie about WikiLeaks’ “indiscriminate” dumping of cables has so consumed me. It’s not because it would change much if they had done or end up doing that — it wouldn’t — but because it just so powerfully proves how mindlessly subservient the American establishment media is: willing to repeat over and over completely false claims as long as it pleases the right people — the same people to whom they claim they are “adversarial watchdogs.” It’s when they engage in such clear-cut, deliberate propagandizing that their true function — their real identity — is thrown into such stark relief.