Public Please

So far, the computational journalism symposium at Georgia Tech has been thought-provoking. It has provided an opportunity for me to provoke the corporate media with democratic theory.
Chrisopher Barr, a senior editor at Yahoo offered his dream list of information innovations. [...]

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Change or experience?
Change We Can Believe In. I Believe In Words. Our Words Inspire. We Can Do Better America! Participate. Hope. Dream. I Need You. We Need Each Other! We Are Many And [...]

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To sustain the citizen journalism movement and end the corporate media’s censorship of public opinion, we need a sound model for public finance. By public finance, I do not mean the largely involuntary and undemocratic form of funding often given the [...]

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The distinction between citizen journalism and professional journalism is historical, but not conceptual. It is possible to have professional citizen journalists and unprofessional corporate journalists.
By “professional”, I do NOT mean the business of reporting; I mean the manner [...]

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I am very concerned that the Obama Campaign is using the YouTube comment approval mechanism to censor criticism of the way the campaign is being run. I submitted the following comment to the campaign’s YouTube movie of Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama:

In [...]

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In his endorsement of Barack Obama at American University, Senator Edward Kennedy announced that “with Barack Obama we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion”, but this is not my experience with Obama’s campaign staff. On [...]

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When we think of Dennis Kucinich’s recent announcement to end his bid for the White House to return home and fight for his seat in Congress, we cannot help but reflect on the fact that he returned home, in large part, because [...]

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Personally, I dislike the cheerful format of the Kucinich Weekly Update, especially the music in the theme song and the polished communication style of the news anchor, but within this packaging, the Kucinich campaign actually makes some substantive points. In its interviews, [...]

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I was shocked and awed at the latest reversal of political censorship on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer said that “the Democratic candidates” would be at the next debate. This was breaking news and I had to call the CNN Headline News [...]

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I just payed $3.95 for a bit of political voice at Congress.org, a political website run by non-partisan and for-profit Capital Advantage. They call it a soapbox commentary, and it’s a pay-per-comment service that advertises your political perspectives to those [...]

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