{"id":270856,"date":"2010-02-03T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64996"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:00:19","slug":"grittv-live-whose-news-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270856","title":{"rendered":"GRITtv Live: Whose News is It, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_left'><script src=\"http:\/\/static.livestream.com\/scripts\/playerv2.js?channel=lauraflanders&#038;layout=playerEmbedDefault&#038;backgroundColor=0x0066ff&#038;backgroundAlpha=1&#038;backgroundGradientStrength=15&#038;chromeColor=0x000000&#038;headerBarGlossEnabled=true&#038;controlBarGlossEnabled=true&#038;chatInputGlossEnabled=false&#038;uiWhite=true&#038;uiAlpha=0.5&#038;uiSelectedAlpha=1&#038;dropShadowEnabled=true&#038;dropShadowHorizontalDistance=10&#038;dropShadowVerticalDistance=10&#038;paddingLeft=10&#038;paddingRight=10&#038;paddingTop=10&#038;paddingBottom=10&#038;cornerRadius=3&#038;backToDirectoryURL=null&#038;bannerURL=null&#038;bannerText=null&#038;bannerWidth=320&#038;bannerHeight=50&#038;showViewers=false&#038;embedEnabled=true&#038;chatEnabled=true&#038;onDemandEnabled=true&#038;programGuideEnabled=false&#038;fullScreenEnabled=true&#038;reportAbuseEnabled=false&#038;gridEnabled=false&#038;initialIsOn=false&#038;initialIsMute=false&#038;initialVolume=10&#038;contentId=null&#038;initThumbUrl=null&#038;playeraspectwidth=4&#038;playeraspectheight=3&#038;mogulusLogoEnabled=true&#038;width=400&#038;height=400&#038;wmode=window\"\ntype=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Discussions on the future of journalism are happening so often now that they&#8217;re almost trite. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertmcchesney.com\/\" >Robert McChesney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/directory\/bios\/john_nichols\" >John Nichols<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themediaconsortium.org\/about\/\" >Tracy Van Slyke<\/a> and Kate Giammarise are not only interested in saving journalism; they&#8217;re interested in having all of us have a say. They&#8217;ll join us at noon to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols and McChesney have a new book out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1568586051?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lauraflanders-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1568586051\">The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lauraflanders-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1568586051\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> that documents the decline of the commercial press and makes the case for publicly-funded media, and Van Slyke has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondtheecho.net\/\" >a book <\/a>out as well, co-authored with Jessica Clark, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1595584714?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lauraflanders-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1595584714\">Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lauraflanders-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1595584714\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, documenting the rise of a new media culture. Giammarise is featured in Nichols and McChesney&#8217;s book and since being laid off from the <em>Toledo Blade<\/em> has founded <a href=\"http:\/\/rustwire.com\/\" >Rustwire.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get enough of this discussion, and you&#8217;re in New York, come see Laura with Nichols, McChesney, Pamela Newkirk and David Carr at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysec.org\/2010\/02\/03\/the-death-and-life-of-american-journalism-feb-3-10\/\" >Society for Ethical Culture TONIGHT<\/a> at 7 PM. It&#8217;s free! (If you&#8217;re not in New York, don&#8217;t despair, we&#8217;re taping the event and it should show up on GRITtv soon!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lauraflanders.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64996&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64996\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions on the future of journalism are happening so often now that they&#8217;re almost trite. But Robert McChesney, John Nichols, Tracy Van Slyke and Kate Giammarise are not only interested in saving journalism; they&#8217;re interested in having all of us have a say. They&#8217;ll join us at noon to discuss. Nichols and McChesney have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}