“We also spent a great deal of time analyzing how we utilize and deploy photojournalists across all of our locations in the U.S. […] We looked at the impact of user-generated content and social media, CNN iReporters and of course our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and pro-sumer technologies are simpler and more accessible. Small cameras are now high broadcast quality. More of this technology is inthe hands of more people. After completing this analysis, CNN determined that some photojournalists will be departing the company.”
—Jack Womack, CNN’s SVP of domestic news operations, in a memo to staff announcing 50 layoffs at the news organization. Among those fired were about a dozen photographers. Womack suggests that User Generated Content via iReport, and improving cameras used to capture images, made the photojournalists obsolete.
November 2011
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And that's when I clicked the 'Close' tab
Politically motivated lines I like from Lupe Fiasco's new mixtape, Friend of the People
- while we waitin’ on that compromise / proceed with that conscious side / new game alert / hashtag: occupy
- imagine a life that revolves around shoppin’ / conspicuous consumption / that means it serves no other function / than to show off to someone
- actin’ like they the man up in here / it don’t count when your only real fan is a mirror
- bought a bag at american rags / a small chinese-made american flag / took a dolla’ bill then split it in half / the picture that she bought wouldn’t fit in a cab
- this is dedicated to the soldiers / who throw a peace sign in the face of bulldozers
- only time i wrestle’s / when i’m wrestling with settling / only way i’ll settle’s / when we wrestle over everything
- look at all the friends that marketing makes / how much more fries can these arteries take / i’ll give mcdonald’s a lil’ help here / i think they should expand into healthcare / and get all ends covered / even make caskets keep it all umbrella’d
- ask rush limbaugh / to return my calls
Click through to listen.
“It wasn’t complicated.”
—Herman Cain’s alleged mistress, who the non-candidate’s campaign says will go public with her allegations tonight.
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The deficit that should most worry us is a deficit of reasonableness. The problems the United States confronts are large but not insoluble. Yet sensible solutions that are broadly popular can’t be enacted.
Why? Because an ideological bloc that sees every crisis as an opportunity to reduce the size of government holds enough power in Congress to stop us from doing what needs to be done.
” —E.J. Dionne, Jr., on why the radicalized Republican movement needs to be defeated. (via wisconsinforward)
Undercover Probe Finds Lax Academic Standards at Some For-Profit Colleges →
chronicle.com
An undercover investigation by the Government Accountability Office has found evidence of lax academic standards in some online for-profit programs.
The probe, which is described in a report made public Tuesday, found that staff at six of the 12 colleges that enrolled the investigators tolerated plagiarism or awarded credit for incomplete or shoddy work.
The release of the report, “For-Profit Schools: Experiences of Undercover Students Enrolled in Online Classes at Selected Colleges,” comes roughly a year after the accountability office revised an earlier report on recruiting abuses at for-profit colleges, acknowledging errors and omissions in its findings. A coalition of for-profit colleges has sued the office over that report, accusing its investigators of professional malpractice.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
“If there is such a thing as going on strike from one’s own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it’s flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left.”
—Matt Taibbi on Occupy Wall Street. (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
Clothes should have words on them like fish should have clothes on them.
“On nearly every count, the deal favors the owners, who had sought an overhaul all along. The players made significant concessions, including a reduction of up to $300 million year in salaries, $3 billion over the life of the agreement.”
— N.B.A. and Players Reach Deal to End Lockout - NYTimes.com
Do not really like — that the compromise does not favor those performing the actual labor that makes the NBA my favorite professional sport — but I’ll take it anyways. Can’t wait for Dec. 25.
“The things you own end up owning you.”
—A Black Friday reminder from Tyler Durden (via thegreg)
