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Huffington Post by Kimberly Butler | Mar. 8, 2010 (Interview)

Is the Medium the Message?

(Video) In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan suggested that a given medium was more important than its message. In 2009, I sat down with Dan Rather, Geraldo Rivera, Tim Zagat, Amy Goodman, Rachel Sklar, Carol Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Bob Simon, John Ziegler, Juan Williams, Kevin Macdonald , Mary Alice Williams, and Stephen Cannell to see what they had... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 8, 2010

Interesting video about the changing news media landscape by independent journalist Kimberley Butler. This short video segment features interviews with a number of TV and print journalists about the rise of opinion news and how it is affecting the way we perceive the world. While the interviews are insightful, the author does not provide much analysis or context, and I did not learn much from this piece. Still, it's an important topic and I applaud this effort to bring all these viewpoints together.

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