(The Gutenberg Parenthesis) – its an idea that everything after Gutenberg and the printing press was an interruption to the ‘original’ form of communication, word-of-mouth. In Megan Garber’s blog post ‘ The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Thomas Pettitt on parallels between the pre-print era and our own Internet age’ she quotes Thomas Pettitt, a professor at the […]
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Let’s face it, the average person doesn’t care about another history figure from the time of Jesus. Peter the first might as well be Peter Pan. It’s an unfortunate reality, but understandable when we’re inundated with information. Overwhelmed or not, there is one man that’s bound to show up in trivia that you need to […]
Every night millions of Americans turn to their local news station to watch the evening news. According to Conan O’Brian though it seems all these stations say the same thing. ( video produced by TBS) Of course it is not really true that these news stations are saying the same thing, but rather they are […]
Watchdogs. Honest. Gatekeepers. Objective. We have a lot of different words to describe journalist, but some how “trustworthy” never seems to be one of them. It seems the integrity of journalist has been questioned by the public for longer then many of us might realize — since 1648 (at least). In twenty first century journalism […]
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Tags: 1648 george mason university, 1st time journalist was called a liar, abolished lines, average joe vs journalist, CNN, conservative, conservative news, FOX, gatekeepers, gioia, gioiahm, gmu, Google, have we ever trust journalist, heather, honest, honestly, intergrity, janet cook, journalism and freedom, journalist, murdoch, news and opinion, newspapers have prospered for one reason: the truth, objective, rupert murcoch, search results, steven glass, technology, the public does not trust journalist, trust, watchdog, we can select the news we want to hear and hear it, with the speed of access to the truth comes the speed in spreading lies