"I wonder if the machinery of Clinton-world, the layers of staff and '90s-era wise men, are prepared to deal with the next generation of Instagramming journalist, social media natives who fetishize authenticity," he said.
Laura Gottesdiener is a journalist, social justice activist, and author of A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, published this month by Zuccotti Park Press.
Yet, at the same time, this country has some of the most interesting journalists, social activists and politicians I have met in the Arab world.
DAVID CARR put his finger on something in his column last Monday, which dealt with the tension between individual journalists' social media expressions and their employers' established standards.
It should be seen by doctors, nurses and medical students, but it should also be seen by poets, philosophers, journalists, social workers, legislators and historians.
These included the documentary photographers dispatched by the federal government's Farm Security Administration, who wound up creating most of the familiar images of the Depression, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, journalists, social reformers, artists, and filmmakers.
Instead, a half-dozen states from parts of the country with different civic traditions should experiment with the practice, and observers — journalists, social scientists, citizens' groups and elected officials — would monitor the consequences.
But on Tuesday, for the first time in the 25-odd years since they formed, the group -- which includes academics, journalists, social agency administrators, a former parks commissioner (Henry Stern), and a political consultant (Sid Davidoff) -- convened at City College itself.
This domestic tale of destruction has been well chronicled by journalists, social scientists and addicts-turned-memoirists. What sets Feiling's book apart is his analysis of how America's insatiable appetite for narcotics and its zealous determination to quash those cravings have spread misery and violence across the globe.
My class, which graduated in 1959, produced the first female secretary of state (Madeleine Albright), the first African-American female judge on a federal Court of Appeals (Amalya Kearse), as well as dozens of lawyers, doctors, teachers, scholars, journalists, social workers and at least one theater director and one farmer.
The consequence, in the case of journalism, is that journalists produce news that accords representation to the social order that maintains journalists' social position as professionals.
