Big Media Fuels Crime's Flames

Mona Charen writes convincingly here how irresponsible news media are guilty of promoting horrible anti-social behavior. Stoking the fire of murderers' inextinguishable lust for fame, news media unhesitatingly report names, photos and identities of crime perpetrators.

Anti Elitism Devices: Start Your Emancipating

Electronic Readers change the way books are created, manufactured, distributed and consumed. An article here by Steven Levy does well in explaining the implications on the future of books and their authors.

Media Free-Fall From Power

Technologically produced transparency and decentralization of power are causing an uncomfortable shake-up inside institutions and felt by individuals that have heretofore been less accountable for their actions. Those with things to hide, or holding position by title or name authority only (as opposed to moral authority), or those arbitrarily or subjectively placed in markets without accompanying value, may find transparency considerably disturbing.