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Posts on ‘January 25th, 2007’

Swampland, Indeed

Time Magazine has launched a Washington political blog, where at least one of the staffers posting to the site shows how he doesn’t get the medium at all — and perhaps needs remedial work in basic journalism, too.
In this posting, entitled “The Clinton Playbook,” Jay Carney wrote, among other things:
In late 1994 and early 1995, [...]

More Voices for Conflict Resolution

Sanjana Hattotuwa: The promise of citizen journalism. Often, this new age of citizen journalism lacks the grammar of age-old diplomacy and socio-political norms – the conversation is raw, visceral, impatient, irreverent, pithy, provocative. In Sri Lanka, it is a conversation that’s largely still in English, and also limited to urban centres.
The potential of citizen journalism, [...]