9.05.2006

The Faux Press::Do the Research/Follow the Money



In-depth analysis of the 9/11 Commission. A must-read book. Where is the media on this question? My analysis: The U.S. media has no balls.

Mainstream media's had the muscle and money forever and have fallen short. Public journalism is dead. The good news? Open Source Journalism is being born.

Jay Rosen's New Assignment has made an assignment on the subject of earmarked funds. It requires citizens to make a few phone calls and ask some questions, then report the answers. Here's more on what earmarks are.

Now that's following the money.

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Jay Rosen writes with a correction:

Thanks for the notice, but the Exposing Earmarks project is not the work of NewAssignment.Net. It's a coalition of partners including the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters and others. I simply wrote about it at PressThink and I said it's in the same spirit as NewAssignment.Net.


Duly noted, Jay. Thanks!




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  1. Thanks for the notice, but the Exposing Earmarks project is not the work of NewAssignment.Net. It's a coalition of partners including the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters and others. I simply wrote about it at PressThink and I said it's in the same spirit as NewAssignment.Net.

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  2. Thanks, Jay - duly noted. Moving too fast.

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