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Journalism construction set
When I wrote about Jay Rosen's Columbia Journalism Review piece below, I failed to mention that Rosen is keeping a good blog going himself. Then, in one of those wonderful circular link trails, I was reading, on Geoff Cohen's consistently stimulating blog, about metaphors for programming and is computer science a science?, when I stumbled on Cohen's link to this fine piece on Jay's blog, about "Master Narratives in Journalism." Worth reading for its insight into the rarely acknowledged role journalists play in not only "covering" the political story but in "constructing" it. Rosen writes about this concept from postmodernist literary theory in an entirely approachable way; far from drowning in the jargon, he extracts useful meaning from it.
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The perils of the paperless ballot
If you haven't been keeping up to date on this stuff, as Salon's Farhad Manjoo has, you will find his interview today with voting-machine whistle-blower Bev Harris a must-read.
It seems that the people who built Diebold's electronic voting systems just didn't think security was critical, nor did they think maintaining the integrity of auditing was a big deal. Well, gee, they're just elections, right? They're not, like, something important.
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