Orion Jones

Today The Huffington Post reports that The National Enquirer will be considered for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for journalism in the categories of Investigative Reporting and National News Reporting for […]

Relative to the American sound bite, John Kerry recently gave an in-depth interview to Al Jazeera, the independent Middle Eastern news service which operates an international TV channel and a […]

Not being a subject of Her Majesty The Queen, it is difficult for me to imagine the British Broadcasting System: a public media network of radio, TV, internet, podcast, iPhone […]

Jay Leno’s primetime show will end quietly tomorrow night. A once-major newspaper editor in England joins the paywall debate. More journalists are being given cameras as the digital age continues […]

That’s what five French journalists have been living on for the last five days as they were holed up in a farm house in the south of France. The journalists […]

The law and the legal system behind it have been meditated on by thinkers from Franz Kafka to Terry Gilliam and this week in Colorado we find another instance of […]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced quarterly profits of $254 million today. It’s a sure sign that, as the industry leader plans to make readers pay for the online content of […]

This week Dan Kennedy at Media Nation castigated the late Jerome Salinger for being on the wrong side of the fair-use copyright battle over use of his work. The iPad […]

What we have of Jerome Salinger’s writings can at best be a mere introduction to his deeply felt literary world. It’s practically criminal that all the quiet readers out there, […]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and now the New York Times have publically announced plans to make readers pay for online content, but not everybody is following suit…not yet, anyway. Alan […]

Now that the dust is settling around the Berlin Wall metaphor which Hillary Clinton made during her major address last Friday on the Internet, let’s have a look at the […]

Arthur Sulzberger, the chairman of the New York Times, says his paper’s recent decision to begin charging customers for its online content in early 2011 is “a bet, to a […]

Yesterday I linked to the Becker-Posner blog which is kept by two University of Chicago professors: Gary Becker and Richard Posner. Becker is an economist and Nobel Laureate and Posner […]

The New York Times is reportedly close to charging for its online content. It is considering a model similar to the Financial Times’ which sets a limit on the number […]

Some media commentators are aghast that their colleagues would weigh the Haitian earthquake as a political event, but if politics is defined, as it famously was by Harold Lasswell in […]

After travelling through China with a local guide who was quite independent and critically minded, reports on the country from reputed American sources like the New York Times began to […]

The Nation says public subsidy can save journalism in America. The Columbia Journalism Review predicts public outcry at impending Wall Street bonuses. The U.K.’s Digital Economy Bill could grant Google […]

Within the span of a week, three polls concerning the special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy have put the contestants at wildly different standings. It has allowed political […]

Two recent news stories have begged the question of privacy: body scan technology that might have found explosives tucked into a Nigerian man’s underpants on Christmas Day and Facebook’s new […]

While there was a short-lived fear that fans of the Simpsons and American Idol might lose their TV shows at the turn of the decade, the recent deal cut between […]

Writing in the New York Times, Bono makes his case for anti-piracy legislation. For the first time in the Financial Times’ history, online and print subscribers now contribute more revenue […]

Yesterday and today I’ve departed from commenting on the media in order to raise awareness of a contemporary political injustice. The story of Don Siegelman is astounding given the facts of […]

Today and tomorrow I depart from commenting on the media in order to raise awareness of a contemporary political injustice. The story of Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama, is […]

I keep getting whiffs of Apple’s tablet computer. See what’s cooking after the jump. Wired has the most recent report. It sounds like Apple is leaking it some info. There […]

Since my first vivid political memories were of Bill Clinton, who campaigned on V-chips and school uniforms to win reelection to the presidency, I rely on others’ accounts of how […]

So as not to beat the dead horse that is the year-end top-ten list, today I wish to highlight a very short “best of” list: the year’s most distinguished misinformers. […]

Google’s scheme to dominate the world of digital book vending was dealt a legal blow yesterday by a French court who ruled that copyrights of French authors are violated each […]

When News Corporation bought The Wall Street Journal in 2007, coverage was expanded to include arts and entertainment and large color photos were placed on its front pages. While a […]

The Huffington Post will sell parts of its comments section as advertising space in order to increase add revenue. Advertisers will “create a dialogue” with readers. “Forget fair and unfair, […]

Professor Luke Timothy Johnson explores the impact of paganism and early Christianity on today’s Christians.