Here's the ad that CNN refuses to air: CNN's Lou Dobbs Problem:
In the past this sort of corporate use of its control over a press or an outlet made some sense: it stifled the message. Nowadays, with so many channels on TV and the Internet besides, all it does is add fuel to the fire. If I were CNN I'd take Media Matters's money and laugh all the way to the bank.
I'm off to the South Eastern Associations of Law Schools (SEALS) 2009 conference today, but it's only a short visit as I'm back tomorrow. The conference is held in a swanky hotel in Palm Beach Florida, just up the road, so it's nice not to have to fly for a change.
I'll be speaking on a panel this afternoon entitled “Why to Visit Blog Sites? Which Ones?” (I did NOT pick the title!). I'm going to talk about a big blog-related project I'm planning, and which I'll write about here very soon, when I have more time.
When I was first invited we thought we'd make a family holiday out of it, as Caroline is speaking there later in the week. But then we decided to be away much more than usual this summer, so we shelved that, and we're going in shifts.
Interestingly, my panel is much transformed from its original group: several speakers had to bail because their schools cut their travel budgets.
Lifehacker lists its Top 10 Computer Hardware Fixes and Upgrades – Hardware.
I give myself seven out of ten. In my defense, I don't want a Hackintosh, by the time my laptop screen died (2 laptops ago), it was a computational relic in every other way, and it's not that I don't ever solder, I'm just not that good at it.
Yet again, Glenn Greenwald not only anticipates what I was going to say, he does it better: GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com deconstructs today's NYT article reporting that GE & Murdoch News got together and agreed to clamp down on blowhards O'Reilly and Olbermann.
It's especially amazing that nowhere in Brian Stelter's article reporting that a pair of owner/publishers of news/opinion TV shows agreed secretly to muzzle them is there any hint that there might be an journalism ethics issue. No one from a J-school is quoted.
Who muzzled the New York Times? And is the most depressing answer that it muzzled itself.
(Bonus amazement: Charlie Rose either lied about the events he witnessed or didn't understand their significance any more than did Brian Stelter.)
Florida A&M University (FAMU) law has received full ABA accreditation — a notable turnaround after a rocky patch.
For reasons unknown, iraqbodycount.org has started serving a popup instead of its civilian casualty count, so I've disabled that part of the sidebar at least temporarily.
In general there's a fair amount of cruft in the sidebars — should I go on a sidebar diet to speed load time and looks?
UPDATE (8/1): Looks fixed?
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