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Senator Wendy Davis Versus Texas Republicans; Internet Versus 24-Hour News Networks

Justin Davis — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:03:47 +0000

Moments ago, a riot and a revolution almost happened in Texas over women’s reproduction rights. According to TV news, there was nothing worth reporting. Thousands of people viewing the live feed of the proceedings, the people reporting on social media like Twitter and Facebook, and throngs of people numbering in the high hundreds to lower […]

After Sandy Hook School Shooting, NRA Is MIA On Facebook

Rick Diehl — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:54:19 +0000

In these days following the brutal massacre of six adults and 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association, America’s original gun lobby, has been unusually quiet. The lobby’s highly professional website sits without updates, its Twitter feed remains untouched, and the Facebook account reduced to a single image of the NRA logo and […]

FIRST! CNN Blunders With Obamacare Ruling Coverage

Matt Algren — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:20:55 +0000

Dan Gillmor, author of the book Mediactive, wrote an increasingly relevant post in 2009 after botched reporting of the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, in a call for what Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman calls a “Slow-News Movement.” Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of […]

Fox News Reporter Notices What Most Of Us Did Ages Ago

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:34:48 +0000

It looks like Fox News reporter Shepard Smith has discovered what most cell phone power users have known for some time now. Namely, that just because your cell plan says it’s unlimited doesn’t mean it actually is. The TV personality’s home WiFi is down, so AT&T went and throttled his data connection. Check out the […]

Amazon Reviews As Protest Against Pepper-spraying Police Officer

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:37:00 +0000

As society and technology push forward, protest takes on different forms reflective of who and where we are. While the Occupy Wall Street movement has been more typical of historic protests – marches, sitting while linking arms – a new form of protest recently sprung up. After the pepper spray incident at UC Davis, protests […]

Segues: Night Of The Living Tech

Justin Davis — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:00:13 +0000

Can we find immortality? It looks like technology might be catching up to this long sought-after goal of not kicking on to the afterlife (or absence of one).