Category: Media

RJ Mitte: For Once, His Disability Was an Advantage

RJ Mitte by Benjo Arwas

Published in March 2, 2008 and boy he did :

Maybe one day, RJ Mitte will just be RJ Mitte. Actor. Talented, funny and handsome.

Maybe one day, he’ll be many other things before he is RJ Mitte, the kid with cerebral palsy.

From the Guardian :

My mom and grandparents always said to me: you can do whatever you want. Can’t wasn’t an option for my grandfather. If I told him I couldn’t do something, he’d tell me I was going to do it. He’d say: because you told me you couldn’t do it, I’m going to force you to do it. If you want it enough, it can be done. He helped to make me who I am today.

→ Los Angeles Times

Social Media Was Made For This

It’s easy to say that the technology companies can do better. They can, and should. But ultimately, that’s not the problem. The problem is the media ecosystem they have created. The only surprise is that anyone would still be surprised that social media produce this tragic abyss, for this is what social media is supposed to do—what it was designed to do: to spread the images and messages that accelerate interest, without check, and absent concern for their consequences. It’s worth remembering that “viral” spread once referred to contagious disease, not to images and ideas. As long as technology platforms drive the spread of global information, they can’t help but carry it like a plague.

→ The Atlantic

The Making of the Fox News White House

Tyler Comrie

Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”

→ The New Yorker