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April 14, 2008

"Bias" At The New Newseum

Below is a draft of a piece of mine that may show up in Mother Jones. Any comments are appreciated.

Never mind. Now it's over here.

—Jonathan Schwarz

Posted at April 14, 2008 09:16 PM
Comments

I'm not getting your point.

What is the newseum? Some bastion of truth and history, or a reflection of media consolidation, a shameless celebration of the public manipulated? Subtlety is a waste, which is why we love HD graphics with our breaking news.

Next field trip discovery -- presidential libraries aren't impartial arbiters of history. And shockingly, they're funded by not-so-clean money seeking favor.

Posted by: angryman@24:10 at April 14, 2008 11:02 PM

Yeah, go ahead, Jon - appreciate that comment if you're so goddamn smart.

So - how did they caption Alterman's book? And is there any discussion at the Newseum about the institutional nature of media organisations i.e. that they're profit-seeking corporations selling audiences to advertisers? I'm not suggesting any of that should go into the piece - I mean, I'd probably put it in, but I'm a boring sod who can't write - I'm just asking out of interest.

Posted by: RobWeaver at April 15, 2008 01:08 AM

is there any discussion at the Newseum about the institutional nature of media organisations i.e. that they're profit-seeking corporations selling audiences to advertisers?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

No.

Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at April 15, 2008 01:11 AM

Yeah, it's the way I tell 'em. :D

Posted by: RobWeaver at April 15, 2008 01:55 AM