As the Sun-Times Media Group prepares to sell, employees at Indiana’s Post-Tribune try once again to buy.
Tag: Media
Posted inNews & Politics
A Short Story in the Palm of Your Hand
Punk Planet’s Dan Sinker believes you really do want to read on your phone.
Posted inNews & Politics
Future of Media: The Young Turk Edition
Among the conclusions at last week’s Chicago Media Future Conference: professional journalism is an anomaly, nobody’s ever really paid for news, and if you see a helicopter, you can surmise for yourself that the president’s in town.
Posted inNews & Politics
Here Comes the Judge
The anything-goes era on the Internet won’t last forever if local federal judge Frank Easterbrook has anything to say about it.
Posted inBlogs
Is Oprah bad for your health?
Newsweek takes on the Queen of All Media’s medical advice, while Pandagon argues it’s especially dangerous to vulnerable women.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Punishment We Deserve
A review of Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, by Anne-Marie Cusac (Yale University Press)
Posted inBlogs
Oprah taps Jenny McCarthy for talk show and blog
Food paranoia from a former Playboy model, brought to you by the Queen of All Media.
Posted inBlogs
Retro manifesto
A look back at when the Reader was the free, money-losing, not-paying, hyper-local, zeitgeist-riding, media model of the future.
Posted inBlogs
Lapdogs at the gates
These days there are more networks than there were Stooges, but otherwise the resemblance is striking.
