They Say / I Blog

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Muhammad Ali? Oh yeah, he was a great boxer, right? Said a lot of outrageous stuff. Boasted a lot. Dave Zirin remembers more and adds to the story. Zirin is sports editor for The Nation and author of several books about the political history of sports. This article was published in the Los Angeles Times in January 2012.  

Read it here: Zirin, "Muhammad Ali at 70: What He Meant, What He Means"

 

How Nutritious Is Your Information Diet?: Frugal Dad Investigates Media Consolidation

Many of us have intense and intimate relationships with our media sources, and we enjoy the sensation of the world at our fingertips. How many corporations mediate our access to that world? Do you know? Should we care? The blogger known as Frugal Dad argues that we should, and he expresses alarm that our media experiences are in increasingly fewer hands; his infographic was published in November 2011 on the Frugal Dad blog. 

Read it here: Frugal Dad, "Media consolidation: The illusion of choice"

 

Not Wanting to Face It: Jenna Wortham Investigates "Facebook Resisters"

Despite all of the hype that Facebook receives, including the success of the film that tells its story, some college-age people—Facebook’s bullseye demographic—are consciously rejecting the site. Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter for the New York Times, where this article was first published in December 2011.

Read it here: Wortham, “The Facebook resisters”