CULTURAS IN VITRO
Movielink will be another Internet flop
12 novembro 2002
ECO-TERRORES
Les otages de Moscou en enfer durant deux jours et trois nuits: Leur cauchemar commence le 23 octobre, quand un commando tchétchène se rend maître des 800 spectateurs d'un théâtre. Deux rescapés reconstituent les heures du drame.
Les otages de Moscou en enfer durant deux jours et trois nuits: Leur cauchemar commence le 23 octobre, quand un commando tchétchène se rend maître des 800 spectateurs d'un théâtre. Deux rescapés reconstituent les heures du drame.
11 novembro 2002
VITAMEDIAS
Election 2002's Exploded Myth: While the Republicans and conservatives continue to pour billions of dollars into building a national media infrastructure – from talk radio and Fox News to print publications and sophisticated Internet operations – the Democrats and liberals continue to do next to nothing.
Election 2002's Exploded Myth: While the Republicans and conservatives continue to pour billions of dollars into building a national media infrastructure – from talk radio and Fox News to print publications and sophisticated Internet operations – the Democrats and liberals continue to do next to nothing.
ECO-TERRORES
9/11 Tape Raised Added Questions on Radio Failures: For much of the last year, New York City has said the devastating breakdown in fire communications at the World Trade Center was largely caused by the failure of an electronic device in the complex called a repeater, which was designed to boost radio transmissions in high rise buildings.
Now, however, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's analysis of its 78-minute tape of firefighter communications from Sept. 11 flatly contradicts the city's version of what went wrong. It also raises questions about the thoroughness of the city's investigations into the worst loss of life any fire department has ever experienced — 343 men.
If the Port Authority's position is correct, it raises the possibility that different factors — failure of other equipment, design of communications consoles in the tower lobbies, or a simple mistake made at a moment of high stress — might have accounted for the communications breakdowns. Many firefighters believe those breakdowns contributed to the department's staggering losses.
9/11 Tape Raised Added Questions on Radio Failures: For much of the last year, New York City has said the devastating breakdown in fire communications at the World Trade Center was largely caused by the failure of an electronic device in the complex called a repeater, which was designed to boost radio transmissions in high rise buildings.
Now, however, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's analysis of its 78-minute tape of firefighter communications from Sept. 11 flatly contradicts the city's version of what went wrong. It also raises questions about the thoroughness of the city's investigations into the worst loss of life any fire department has ever experienced — 343 men.
If the Port Authority's position is correct, it raises the possibility that different factors — failure of other equipment, design of communications consoles in the tower lobbies, or a simple mistake made at a moment of high stress — might have accounted for the communications breakdowns. Many firefighters believe those breakdowns contributed to the department's staggering losses.
VITAMEDIAS
Good photo, but readers didn't see it: Even though they willingly gave their names, thereby indicating permission to use the photo, the woman and her son had second thoughts. They sent a message through the police asking -- no, pleading -- that the photo not be used. The son explained that his mother feared for her safety and that a photo, combined with the angst of the attack, would be too stressful.
Could the paper still have used the photo, even without permission? Yes. Privacy protection was lost because the woman and her son were in the public domain; they were visible from the street.
Was this the best photo of the day? No question.
Still, you didn't see it.
Good photo, but readers didn't see it: Even though they willingly gave their names, thereby indicating permission to use the photo, the woman and her son had second thoughts. They sent a message through the police asking -- no, pleading -- that the photo not be used. The son explained that his mother feared for her safety and that a photo, combined with the angst of the attack, would be too stressful.
Could the paper still have used the photo, even without permission? Yes. Privacy protection was lost because the woman and her son were in the public domain; they were visible from the street.
Was this the best photo of the day? No question.
Still, you didn't see it.
VITAMEDIAS
Anonymous Sources, Bad Information: Citing anonymous sources, Bill Olds' Privacy column last Sunday on Page H3 proclaimed that "The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Library". The headline alone sounds like front-page news. But then there were those anonymous sources, whose allegations evidently weren't thoroughly discussed and challenged by Olds and his editors before being published. The story slipped through and so did inaccurate information.
Anonymous Sources, Bad Information: Citing anonymous sources, Bill Olds' Privacy column last Sunday on Page H3 proclaimed that "The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Library". The headline alone sounds like front-page news. But then there were those anonymous sources, whose allegations evidently weren't thoroughly discussed and challenged by Olds and his editors before being published. The story slipped through and so did inaccurate information.
CONTAMINANTES
PopSci's Brilliant 10: [S]cientists who are shaking up their fields and whose work will touch your life.
The scientists you're about to meet aren't famous. Yet.
PopSci's Brilliant 10: [S]cientists who are shaking up their fields and whose work will touch your life.
The scientists you're about to meet aren't famous. Yet.
VITAMEDIAS
Global Media Mahem: Representations of violence are not necessarily undesirable. There is blood in fairy tales, gore in mythology, murder in Shakespeare. Not all violence is alike. In some contexts, violence can be a legitimate and even necessary cultural expression. Individually crafted, historically inspired, sparingly and selectively used expressions of symbolic violence can indicate the tragic costs of deadly compulsions. However, such tragic sense of violence has been swamped by "happy violence" produced on the dramatic assembly-line. This "happy violence" is cool, swift, painless, and often spectacular, even thrilling, but usually sanitized. It always leads to a happy ending; it must deliver the audience to the next commercial in a receptive mood.
Global Media Mahem: Representations of violence are not necessarily undesirable. There is blood in fairy tales, gore in mythology, murder in Shakespeare. Not all violence is alike. In some contexts, violence can be a legitimate and even necessary cultural expression. Individually crafted, historically inspired, sparingly and selectively used expressions of symbolic violence can indicate the tragic costs of deadly compulsions. However, such tragic sense of violence has been swamped by "happy violence" produced on the dramatic assembly-line. This "happy violence" is cool, swift, painless, and often spectacular, even thrilling, but usually sanitized. It always leads to a happy ending; it must deliver the audience to the next commercial in a receptive mood.
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