Michael O. Allen's blog

Michael Kinsley must have embarked on his media criticism piece in the current issue of The Atlantic bereft of ideas when e writes that newspaper articles are "too long." Really? Write it short and readers would flood back to newspapers? Pity then all those misguided publishers in search of new platforms to peddle their wares. Read more...

Whether in Mumbai, Teheran, Havana, or in Madagascar, bloggers and other online journalists across the world are finding themselves under threats and assaults similar to what mainstream journalists often face from governments intent on choking off access to information. Read more...

News organizations and journalists make their reputations by getting the story that is difficult to get, but are we now in an age where the only eyewitness to history may be the stray academic, researcher or human rights activist, rather than a journalist?
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