Filed under: SUSSMAN
(Film still from "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control")
Welcome back to Carpe Media...and if this is your first time on the site, then just plain welcome!
I’ll say it straight: the quality of CM depends on you. Not a vague, universal “you,” as in, “your vote makes a difference.” (Although, come to think of it, in this election, it most certainly will.)
Specifically, CM depends on your comments. So if you see a post here that you liked… or that you thought was lame… or worse yet, that you read and had no reaction to whatsoever… I’d love hear about it in all its gory, ad hominem (er, make that ad Emily) detail. One word would be great; ten words would be great; even a book-length missive would be great.
Essentially, I’m greedy for your input, no matter how big or small. (more…)
Filed under: HEFFERNAN
by Brian Heffernan
Look familiar? Jesse? Joey?
I have a fantasy about flying to a new city carrying only a wallet and a toothbrush. I’d be wearing a suit. And sunglasses. Nothing else. Damn, that would be so Brad Pitt. I had my chance earlier this month, but good sense got the better of me.
I uprooted from mid-Missouri and headed to San Francisco. A job made me do it. An offer from a big-city mag trumped staying with a smaller regional magazine—standard food chain politics. (Besides, sticking around Missouri is so summer-of-’08.)
Filed under: PAINTER
by Chad Painter
Barack Obama held a four point lead over John McCain in Sunday’s Gallup poll of “national voter preference for the presidential election.” The good news for McCain is that he had closed the gap since Saturday, when Obama led 50 percent to 44 percent. The bad news for McCain is that he led the poll by two points on Sept. 14.
At the time of Sunday’s poll, the election—the only poll that actually matters—was still 44 days away. This horse racing of the campaign is way too early to matter. (more…)
Filed under: GIAMMONA
by Craig Giammona
From where I sit, John McCain is winning this thing. I guess the post-convention miasma of goodwill and press coverage will eventually dissipate, but Obama still seems lost, perpetually on the defensive and facing an uphill battle for the White House.
Thanks, Governor Palin. And thank you, America.
I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around this election. The last eight years have withered my fortitude, and living in Alaska, I’ve felt fairly detached from the whole circus show—a kind of “you can’t get there from here” effect. In the wilds of southeast Alaska, there are mountains to climb and islands to explore, and all this nasty election business can seem extremely abstract, even abstruse. I don’t have the stomach for the daily catcalls and recriminations. Increasingly, I find the whole process broken and depressing.
Filed under: SUSSMAN
(Crude video-slideshow: Emily Sussman)
It’s “slice of life” month at Carpe Medium, meaning that all through October we’ll be showcasing films—in the loosest sense of the term, that is—that CM contributors have captured while going about their everyday lives. Think cinema-verite-meets-community-journalism.
…And if you didn’t like this particular piece, here’s your chance to improve on the SOL theme: If you’ve got a video function on your digital camera, or if you have a photo slideshow with some sort of narration, please send along any and all contributions to ews8tb@gmail.com. Submissions should be no longer than five minutes.
Thanks so much for your support as CM continues to experiment with multimedia journalism.
—Emily Sussman
Filed under: PAINTER
Clyde Bentley speaking at the Missouri Centennial (Video: EWS)
By Chad Painter
The Missouri School of Journalism celebrated its 100th birthday last week with three days of panels, symposiums and barbecue. What follows is a semi-coherent wrap-up of what one person learned by attending. I haven’t figured out a way to clone myself yet, so I could only be at one event at a time. If you gained some wisdom that you don’t see here, please post it to the “Comments” section. Enough of my yapping; let’s boogie.
Filed under: SIEBERT
By Zachary Siebert
The Unknown. (Photo: Zachary Siebert)
Recently a colleague Facebooked me with this scintillating question: who are the greatest photographers in all of history? I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time obsessing over just that question, AKA the “Impossible to Answer Because I Am Merely a Simpleton and My Opinion Would Be Unsatisfactorily Subjective” question. (While we’re at it, buddy, who are the greatest musicians and/or Secretaries of Transportation of all time?)
Still, my colleagues and I are qualified to answer this adorable gremlin of a question because we are the most noble of newsroom types—photojournalists.
Filed under: HENDEL
Beware of losing your head to political spin this election season.
by John Hendel
The media’s feeling some heat these days. Particularly partisan heat. A fireball of controversy has exploded in the last few weeks and centers primarily around Governor Sarah Palin and her appearance at the Republican National Convention.
First, we had the repeated swipes against the media at the Twin Cities convention. Then we had accusations over the media’s sexism and its “unfair” coverage of Gov. Palin. When CNN’s Campbell Brown asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds some tough questions on Palin, McCain cancelled an appearance on Larry King. And now, aside from the now-infamous Charles Gibson interview, the McCain camp is playing politics over allowing Palin any press access. So what’s new?
Filed under: PAINTER
The Missourian is losing money. One million dollars worth, in fact. With the amount of brainpower coming together for the journalism school’s Centennial, it’s high time to put our heads together and come up with a solution.
By Chad Painter
The people behind the past and present of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism are taking time this week to give themselves a well-deserved pat on the back. Missouri’s journalism program is celebrating its centennial September 10-12 with a series of events, symposiums, and gatherings, but will anyone mention the white elephant in the room? The school’s flagship daily newspaper, the Missourian, is sinking in the red faster than the Titanic sank in the Atlantic.
Filed under: SUSSMAN
To the MU journalism community:
Welcome to the Missouri School of Journalism’s 100 year celebration — and of course, welcome to Carpe Media. Thank you so much for visiting our fledgling site; we appreciate the supportive reception we’ve gotten from all the alumni, faculty members, and fellow J-students we had the chance to chat with today, the kickoff of our Centennial.
As co-editor and publisher of Carpe Media, I wrote last week about the genesis of the project. Here’s the short version:
