How good is your political information?

I love this column in HuffPost by Peggy Drexler: The High Cost of Low Information . With so much information out there, sometimes it's e...

Random links on journalism, research, and news

New video game lets players kill Woodward and Bernstein . Is this part of the anti-media conspiracy, or what? In New Yorker. Top 25 Web 2.0 ...

The new Red Menace

When things aren't going well, Americans need to find a bogeyman to blame it on. The 'communists' were an easy target in the 195...

Catching up

I've been out of town and hoped to update the blog during my trip but didn't see anything to blog anyway. I've been avoiding po...

Some useful stats sites

For lovers (and seekers) of statistics, Shirl Kennedy has put together a nice list at Resourceshelf of Niche Statistics . Among the unusual ...

Some depressing environmental news for Florida

Ocean Conservancy Releases Report On Reef Management: How Florida and National Park Service Marine Reserve Policies Undermine Efforts to Pro...

"Trained Democracy Superheroes"

That's what this MSNBC report calls librarians, specifically librarian (and former newspaper reporter) Carol Kreck, who was ticketed for...

Following up

Great discussion by Jay Rosen on the Jessica DaSilva flap (yesterday's post) at Pressthink: Big Daddy Newspaper Has Gone and Left Journa...

New vs. old journalists and the 'mediasphere'

On the journalism front, there's a little flurry of discussion over how news organizations need to rebuild themselves, leading to this m...

Gas myths and help, and waterboarding

Swiss Army Librarian , a nice blog from a Mass. reference librarian (now on my bloglist ), compiles a good set of links to sites about gas ...

Who gets the news? And a disturbing development

Joel Achenbach is watching the blogs who claim to get the news the 'mainstream media' don't: News we remembered to report . And,...

A few research links

A couple of these may have been posted before, but worth a reminder: The Mike Wallace Interview , from the 1957-58 TV program, archived at U...

Herald layoffs

This memo has been forwarded, I suppose, to lots of people, but luckily, one of them was Bob Norman, who posted it on his Daily Pulp blog: t...

Dereliction of duty

Haven't posting anything here for a few days. Just haven't seen anything I wanted to link to. But if you'd like some pictures fr...