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December 18, 2009

Sports & Weather

If death and taxes are the two things on which we can depend in life overall, I'd like to suggest that the two media experiences we can always trust are sports and weather. Here's why:

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Jonathan Salem Baskin, media, news, truth
July 3, 2009

The News Industry, Disaggregation of Audiences and 'Failed Truths'

by: Iqbal Mohammed

Recently, much discussion online (and offline) has centred around the impending doom of journalism and the news industry. As an enthusiastic cheerleader of all the disruptive effects of the Internet, my opinion until of late has been that the changes couldn't have come about sooner.

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information, audience, Iqbal Mohammed, truth, news, new media, mainstream media
May 14, 2009

Manufacturing Truth

by: Jonathan Salem Baskin

The Scientist magazine reported last week that pharma giant Merck had invented its own peer review medical journal in order to better hype its products; of 29 articles, almost two-thirds referred to Fosamax or Vioxx.

And we're surprised?

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truth, Jonathan Salem Baskin, ethics, experts, pharma, reviews
April 29, 2009

Boing Boing Sells Out?

by: Jonathan Salem Baskin

With the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") pondering adapting its archaic advertising regulations to cover blogs, I chanced upon some blatant commercial content posing as a blog post on one my favorite sites, Boing Boing.

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Jonathan Salem Baskin, BoingBoing, blogging, bloggers, authenticity, truth, mainstream media
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