PressThinkPressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen.What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press- May 29, 2008 I never expected McClellan to write a book about being the jerk at the podium for Bush, or to make connections between his experience and the larger wreckage of the Bush presidency. But he's done just that.http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/05/29/mcclellan_regrets.html Looking for the Mouse in Media: Clay Shirky on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus for Public Good- May 7, 2008 "The imagery is geological: the release of trapped deposits. He thinks we can reverse the time sink for people once marooned on the receiving end of a one-way system that didnt care what you thought or brought to it, since it couldnt afford the costs of interacting with you."http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/05/06/mouse_media.html |