Truth Lies Here
How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts?
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Oliver Munday Closing the Digital Frontier
The era of the Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology—that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral— suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media—and of the Web itself?
Jason Schneider The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade
The Future Is Cheese
Why the networks are surrendering prime time to Jay Leno and the Lord of the Dance
Dee Conway/Lebrecht Music and Arts End Times
Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?
He Saw It Coming
The forgotten filmmaker who anticipated our modern media madness
Only Connect
The digital age demands that political candidates be authentic and accessible. But please—hold the carrots.
The Revolution Will Be Televised
TV can avoid the music industry’s fate and survive the digital age, but only by beating the Internet at its own game.
The Pleasure Principle
Newspapers should try giving readers what they want, not just what editors think they need.
Fallen Stars
Can celebrities survive the age of too much information?
