Archive for March, 2008
The News about the News: Jay Rosen
This seems to be the moment in which the death of the American newspaper can be foretold with some authority — by Eric Alterman in this week’s New Yorker; by the new local owners of the great old papers (“The news business is something worse than horrible,” says Sam Zell, in what sounds like buyer’s …
Real News: Ethan Zuckerman & Solana Larsen
A short course in the transformation of media -- by bloggers of the world at Global Voices Online.
Speaking of Race: John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon
Novelist John Edgar Wideman plumbs the audacity of both rage and hope in black America.
Cuba in Our Ears (IV): Ned Sublette
Revolutions come and go, but something about Cuba's music is forever. With Ned Sublette
Cuba on our Minds (III): David Kaiser’s JFK
Who Killed JFK? In David Kaiser's authoritative history, Oswald was the killer but it was a Cuba-centered conspiracy that set the stage.
Cuba for the Long Run (II): Adrian Lopez Denis
Cuba after Fidel will run, as it always has, on transnational family networks and an 'informal' economy, in the view of social historian Adrian Lopez Denis.
What’s Coming in Cuba (I) Patrick Symmes
Cuba on the edge of a Velvet Revolution? or a civil war? The Patrick Symmes version of the Castro Revolution and its aftermath now.
London: The News about the News
Does the new "news" of Web communities have a credibility problem? Is it half as bad as the diseases afflicting "old media?"
The Post-Imperial Historian: Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm, the global historian, considers how the Iraq War has moved power in the world and changed the agenda of the 21st Century.
