this week comes the news that CBC’s Brave New Waves has been cancelled. At least that’s how I got the news. Jamie and I are exactly the same age – I might be a couple of weeks older – and I remember that even in Ottawa, BNW seemed like it was coming from Mars it was so different than the early-Muchmusic, Video school dance environment I came from. The show has always been an oddball on CBC Radio 2, but still, it’s a sad development at the Corpse that they couldn’t find a spot – in the middle of the night – for such innovative – after all this time – programming.
Craig Silverman,
journalist and writer extraordinaire and long-time friend of mikel.org, has just published his annual roundup of the year in errors: Crunks 06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections at his great Regret the Error site.
Salon today is running
an extended excerpt of the new book, “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush,” by Eric Boehlert. It’s a scathing critique of the media’s handling of the run up to the Iraq war. Well worth a read, particularly the parts about Judith Miller at the NYTimes.
Nice start:
yesterday Hugh McGuire introduced his new project – Collectik – to the world. I haven’t looked at it in detail yet, but what I have seen looks really great. Collectik is “like mixtapes for podcasts” as they say in their tagline.
The intersection of blogs and newspapers
is still a fascinating subject, though if anything the newspapers appear to be moving even further away from “getting it” than ever. Alan Rusbridger is the editor of The Guardian and has some important thoughts on the subject that he delivered in a speech on the 16th of March in London. Jeff Jarvis has posted a detailed summary with quotes on his blog, BuzzMachine.
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