Rebecca Adelman on the photos of drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, questions of ethical spectatorship, and how much of the debate surrounding the images obscures the complexities inherent in any act of looking at casualty photos.
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Tags: Aylan Kurdi, clicktivism, journalism, photography, spectatorship, Syria
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This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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Tags: crime procedural, journalism, Serial, seriality, The Wire, This American Life
Posted in Radio, Technology | 12 Comments »
With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Tags: cable news, CNN, journalism, Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, technology, television, TV
Posted in Global, Perspectives, Technology, Technology, TV, TV | Comments Off on Only Marginally More Unreal: Reconsidering CNN’s Coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370
Wednesday morning left both the electoral map and Republican politicians feeling a little blue, yet there was another group in need of collective introspection: political journalists, commentators and pundits.
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Tags: election, Fox News, journalism, journalistic methods, Mitt Romney, Obama, public sphere, pundits
Posted in Current Events, Politics | 3 Comments »
Antenna introduces a new series on the mediation of Middle Eastern politics, edited by Matt Sienkiewicz and articulated through the side-by-side perspectives of bloggers and academics.
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Tags: blogging, journalism, Middle East, politics
Posted in The Middle East | Comments Off on The Middle East: Inside, Outside, and Online
Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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Tags: Alex Blumberg, Apple, celebrity, Ira Glass, journalism, Mike Daisey, NPR, radio, This American Life, This American Life LIVE!, WBEZ
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 2 Comments »
On Radio is a new Antenna column dedicated to contemporary radio programming and other issues surrounding the medium in all its forms. Here, in the series' first entry, Andrew Bottomley offers a critical appreciation of the radio feature Radiolab.
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Tags: All Things Considered, documentary, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, John Biewen, journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NPR, Public Radio Exchange, radio, Radiolab, Robert Krulwich, This American Life, WNYC
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: Radiolab and the Art of the Modern Radio Feature
Thoughts on the retirement of one of America's great journalists, Bill Moyers.
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Tags: Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, journalism, television news
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Tags: 3D, Blockbuster, Bollywood, box office, copyright, DVD, Facebook, failures, Google, independent, journalism, Miramax, movies, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, Redbox, social media, television, transmedia, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 2 Comments »
Last week Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention not to run for reelection (big) if and when a vote is held. This isn't the forum to discuss the political significance of this move, but I thought I'd throw out some quick observations on the international media side of the story.
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Tags: internet, Israel, journalism, Mahmoud Abbas, New York Times, Palestine
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