by David | Jan 24, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
The Teleprompter is Us Tonight’s State of the Union address is being billed as “the most interactive political act ever.” Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read...
by David | Jun 19, 2011 | Politics & New Media
This is a short clip from the recent “Town Hall” type meeting that brand-new Rep. Karen Bass had with her constituents here in Cal-33. This has got to be one of the most diverse districts in California, if not the entire U.S. in these Gerrymandered...
by David | Apr 19, 2011 | Online Video, Politics & New Media, Ukraine
200,000 deaths. Could Fukushima get this bad? This video was produced by my students at the University of Mohyla’s Institute for the Digital Future of Journalism in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s in Ukrainian, so my English-speaking audience won’t be able to...
by David | Sep 30, 2010 | Amusing Nonsense, Online Video, Politics & New Media, Video
A while back, I was asked to give me take on “The Emerging Visual Language of Online Video” as part of Rosental Alves’ amazing yearly journalism conference in Austin. I made the room laugh when I showed parody videos like the “SoulWow”...
by David | Nov 5, 2009 | Blogging, Conspiracy Theories, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Under the guise of “protecting citizens from terrorists and porn,†the government in Kazakhstan is eliminating freedom of speech and of the press via a particularly toxic cocktail of Old Stalinist School beatings, jailings and intimidation – and cutting-edge...
by David | Feb 9, 2009 | journalism, new media, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Hire this director and have him start whipping Christian Bale into shape. This video had my class rolling with laughter – it’s slightly NSFW (mainly with the cussing in the subtitles, although if your office has Russian speakers, they might object). This...
