The “Gates-gate” episode in Cambridge has been called a “teachable moment.” Might I suggest that it’s a moment that has gone on too long? We get it. It’s a moment whose time has passed.
–Anita M. Harris
Category: Media
CBS News Chief Lauds Obama, predicts stronger newspapers
CBS Evening News Exec: At the recent G20 Summit, “when [Obama] stood up, it was a proud moment for America.”
Boston/NY Newspaper War: Pulitzer Winners Face off
Was surprised last night when two Pulitzer prize winning journalists locked horns on WGBH-TV’s Greater Boston over NYT
Joining Blog Rally to help the Boston Globe
The New Cambridge Observer is pleased to join Beth Israel Hospital’s Paul Levy et all in the blog rally to help the Boston Globe.
Look back, move forward
In his 3-05-09 post “Probe the Past to Protect the Future,” Washington DC business-advocate-re-turned investigative journalist Andrew Kreig says it’s “nonsense”for the country to look forward without addressing the “wrongs” of the recent past “nonsense”….I’m not anxious to delve back into the murky recent past. By temperament, like Obama, I would rather let it all go. But as George Santayana said, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” I don’t relish the possibility of investigations, indictments or imprisonments. But I do think it’s important to find out why things went so wrong in hopes that we never have to go through times like those–or these–again.
Rating Social Media Marketing Webinars
This post briefly reviews three January 2009 Webinars on how blogs and other social media tools can best be used to grow businesses.
For a free press–please pay!
“Please support the free press–by paying for it.”
Report on Nieman Foundation's 70th Anniversary Convocation, Nov 7-9, Cambridge, MA
The overall meeting was both a discussion and demonstration of the state of journalism–much of it focused on traditional versus new media standards and practices, and the problem of finances. The most dramatic moments involved interchanges between traditional and new media journalists.