Coverage of the Beijing Olympics has a strangely ambivalent feel. On one hand, the media is busy drawing attention to China’s massive pollution problems, human rights violations, and architectural coverups of Beijing’s endearing everyday shabbiness. But the corporations that bring us all these messages, via the corporate-owned news media, are also furiously serving […]

New York Media Guide is your one-stop shop for links to New York newspaper websites (both daily and weekly). Seems like a highly useful resource, even if it does bear somewhat of a visual (not political) resemblance to the Drudge Report. Take a look.
Syracuse B-4 is a blog that digs up old Syracuse […]

Outgoing Newhouse School dean David Rubin on local media:
“In Syracuse we have one provider of information about the city, the Syracuse Post Standard newspaper. Local TV got out of the serious news business a long time ago and citizens can’t hope to get serious information about how the city is governing itself from TV or […]

Some thoughts on blogging’s prehistory, and on current local practices.

Includes a discussion about New York State’s prison system.

And discovers that the Creative Class was in his own backyard all along.

Huh?!

What would Hollywood think?

Another CNY blogger is leaving. Also: racism and online discussion boards.

Interesting notice in today’s PS:
Today marks the launch of “Upstate Focus,” an editorial project that links newspapers from the Hudson Valley and the Southern Tier through Northern, Central and Western New York. Our goal is to provide readers with a concerted focus on issues of concern to Upstate citizens and taxpayers. We are […]