Marshall McLuhan

‘Trust and integrity in the modern media’ - Chris Cramer’s speech to Nottingham Trent University

This is the full transcript of a speech given by Chris Cramer, global head of multimedia for Reuters’ news operations, at Nottingham Trent University last night. Journalism.co.uk’s report on the address can be read at this...

Rescue our ABC

John Carmody | November 19, 2008 Article from: The Australian I HAD thought that the dogma of postmodernism was dead and that its odour had disappeared. Regrettably, this has not happened in the atavistic world of ABC radio...

Moving beyond the

By Simon, Front PorchIn his seminal speech on race in Philadelphia in March, while expressing gratitude for the ministry of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama lamented his now former pastor's stat...

Worshipping the Obamas while the going is good

Sunday Morning on CNN, Howard Kurtz, host of Reliable Sources, the media-discussion program, opened with this: ''Obamamania. From the covers to the hip-hop music to Michelle as a fashion icon, are the media getting swept away...

Letter To CEOs of Fortune 1000 Companies

Dear Chief Executive Officers, We, the shareholders of your companies, have held an extraordinary Internet meeting. We know that government oversight is burdensome, and is after all, an intrusion into affairs that you believe...

Mark Vernon: Kierkegaard saw why it's hard to talk religion on the net

What can a blog about belief and unbelief hope to achieve? If Marshall McLuhan was right, and the medium is the message, what impact does the nature of a blog have on the content of a blog, as it were? Central to his discussion...

Obama's first online address to America

The owners of Facebook and similar social networking sites are struggling desperately to find ways to ‘monetize' their businesses. And while they come up with one self-serving scheme after another, people continue to use them...

Jesuit tattoos

I have fun memories of hanging out with the Jesuits at Fordham back when noted author & fellow Russian class member Andrew Krivak was a Jesuit in training. Tonight, getting back to the BofG after an intense week of...

A million discoveries now

Apart from pilgrimage, travelling for pleasure was not much on middle-class India’s agenda. With plenty of money to spend, that is changing fast as they discover anew the pleasures of mobility and the many Indias within India.

Marshall McLuhan on the information age

What would Marshall McLuhan, who came up with such terms as "the global village" and "the medium is the message," think of YouTube? I think he predicted this would happen more than forty years ago. Clips and quotes from the...

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