Light at the end of the media tunnel
:: these guys are definitely on the ball
Friends and relatives will tell you and I openly admit it: I am a news junky. I used to consume tremendous volumes of financial and business news magazines and publications during the [old nostalgic] new economy.
The Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek were at the base of my voracious business news diet and the other food groups consisted of all kinds of sweets such as Fast Company, The Industry Standard [RIP], Business 2.0 [hated all the articles discreetly placed among my favorite stack of useful [not] dot.bomb adverts] and Wired magazines only to be topped off with snacks such as fuckedcompany.com [so passe]and multimedium.com [RIP]...
Well, if anything, the event that changed our sector is the dot.com meltdown of March 2000. With the dot.bomb depression [remember pets.com ads on adcritic - Whazzup?!] and the precipitous fall of the bull market [remember Nortel at $120], I guess our attention had to be shifted from bad economic news, to worse bad news...
So naturally, my news diet has had to include a bit more world politics because financial news is just pretty desperate. Going through all the major news sources and tightly strangleheld world media, I have stumbled on a few competent foreign correspondants that I truly respect.
Naturally, my keen interest in world news and obviously due to my background, I am often asked about my opinion on world events. My answer: you should not care about my opinion because I am truly not experienced enough to have one in the complicated deceptive intertwined field of world affairs. However, I do suggest that people look for competent sources: foreign correspondants who have lived and covered the struggles that shape the current state of world affairs. Not the debutant and neophyte journalists that do not dare to ask tough questions. Journalists should challenge their minds and preconceptions.
Ultimately, freedom of press was intended to be fully practiced in order to challenge potentially authoritarian regimes. The Fourth Power was not meant to be abused and concentrated. Maintain l'esprit critique: dare to question motives, consequences, legitimacy and logic of the ruler.
So in recent months, I have identified the following journalists that I truly admire. In my humble opinion, they are fountains of light in this dark age of gullibility.
Robert Fisk
Eric Margolis
Gwynne Dyer
:: these guys are definitely on the ball
Friends and relatives will tell you and I openly admit it: I am a news junky. I used to consume tremendous volumes of financial and business news magazines and publications during the [old nostalgic] new economy.
The Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek were at the base of my voracious business news diet and the other food groups consisted of all kinds of sweets such as Fast Company, The Industry Standard [RIP], Business 2.0 [hated all the articles discreetly placed among my favorite stack of useful [not] dot.bomb adverts] and Wired magazines only to be topped off with snacks such as fuckedcompany.com [so passe]and multimedium.com [RIP]...
Well, if anything, the event that changed our sector is the dot.com meltdown of March 2000. With the dot.bomb depression [remember pets.com ads on adcritic - Whazzup?!] and the precipitous fall of the bull market [remember Nortel at $120], I guess our attention had to be shifted from bad economic news, to worse bad news...
So naturally, my news diet has had to include a bit more world politics because financial news is just pretty desperate. Going through all the major news sources and tightly strangleheld world media, I have stumbled on a few competent foreign correspondants that I truly respect.
Naturally, my keen interest in world news and obviously due to my background, I am often asked about my opinion on world events. My answer: you should not care about my opinion because I am truly not experienced enough to have one in the complicated deceptive intertwined field of world affairs. However, I do suggest that people look for competent sources: foreign correspondants who have lived and covered the struggles that shape the current state of world affairs. Not the debutant and neophyte journalists that do not dare to ask tough questions. Journalists should challenge their minds and preconceptions.
Ultimately, freedom of press was intended to be fully practiced in order to challenge potentially authoritarian regimes. The Fourth Power was not meant to be abused and concentrated. Maintain l'esprit critique: dare to question motives, consequences, legitimacy and logic of the ruler.
So in recent months, I have identified the following journalists that I truly admire. In my humble opinion, they are fountains of light in this dark age of gullibility.
Robert Fisk
Eric Margolis
Gwynne Dyer
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