We never thought we’d find ourselves siding with Fox (except on matters pertaining to Family Guy), but we are nevertheless pleased that a federal court has tossed the FCC’s profanity rulings against said network, after determining that their current “fleeting expletives” policy qualifies as “arbitrary and capricious.”
According to the court’s 2-1 decision, the FCC’s policy was deemed inadequate primarily because the commission had failed to “to articulate a reasoned basis for its change in policy.”
In other words, by removing any wider-reaching First Amendment issues from their immediate consideration, the court is essentially saying FCC lost on a technicality.
Predictably, the FCC Chairman was rather agitated by the court’s decision, however Fox spokesperson (and HuffPo’s melodramatic blogging staff) were overcome by celebratory cheer.
“It does my democratic heart good to see the system work,” begins overly effusive blogger Jeff Jarvis, in an understated piece entitled, “The First Amendment Wins One.”
NYT Co. advisor, CUNY prof, media blogger, and regular MSNBC guest Jeff Jarvis has some words of advice for, uh, MSNBC:
You know that Democratic presidential debate they aired last night?
Rumor has it, there might be some added value there. And it wouldn’t cost a penny! Oh, this Web 2.0 stuff is such a brain teaser…
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It’s been minutes since we’ve heard from Buzzmachine blogger and CUNY bigshot Jeff Jarvis opining on blogger ethics. We thought if we watched a little less MSNBC, perhaps the gods would smile upon us and bring less frequent ramblings better suited for a Jason Calacanis type. But alas, Katie Couric’s peeps had to book somebody to discuss blogger ethics, and even Robert Thompson has to draw the line somwhere.
Enough with “schoolmarms presuming to tell me how I should behave.” And down with requisite blogger civility!
Jon Friedman isn’t just tackling new territory like blogs, but now he’s ahead of the curve with a champagne room-style circus for Jeff Jarvis.
In the brave new world of blogging, shrill seems to be the watchword. Sadly, many of the misguided practitioners act as if the louder they yell or the more they criticize someone, the wittier they look.
Well, at least he’s reading our little website.
Jarvis is the thinking man’s blogger [Jon Friedman, MarketWatch]
So, apparently we did not receive the memo in regards to the David Carr/Bonnie Fuller/Jeff Jarvis CNN appearance yesterday. Unlike the Screen Actors Guild awards, this is something we actually would have watched.
And while some big shot web publishers and movie stars might have TiVo and DVR, us lowly writers out in the boondocks of Brooklyn don’t even know if those two things are the same or different. Hell, our cable package doesn’t even include Bravo!
However, our uber internet savvy skills aligned to dig up the CNN transcript from yesterday’s episode of Reliable Sources, which so fittingly portrayed a Bonnie Fuller truthiness versus James Frey truthiness, all while attacking Oprah.
We’re not really sure if David Carr is just nodding, and asking himself “why am I on this show?” or not, but Howard Kurtz interviewing bloggers and tabloid queens about Oprah’s reliability is almost too much to take. Choice quotes, plus the link to the transcript, after the jump.
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As Howard Stern signs off from FM airwaves today en route to Sirius – with a parade through Times Square complete with Sheryl Crow concert and Martha Stewart MCing – BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis is on the scene to do what he does best: media whore.
LIVE: It is insane on 56th Street. Thousands upon thousands of fans are jamming the street from west of 6th avenue to east of 5th avenue. Bigger than any megachurch.
I????????m sitting in a Starbux on 56th and 7th, watching the show on Yahoo and listening on the radio and telling you about it. I have my Howard poster, which I????????ll proudly carry around New York today, and my Howard sticker and my Howard Id card. Laugh if you want, but thousands upon thousands of us are here doing the same thing because we belong.
If there’s one man who can meta-media-multi-task, it’s Jeff Jarvis.
The king of all media [BuzzMachine]
Howard Stern says farewell to terrestrial radio [AP]
Howard Stern Walks [Yahoo]
(No, that photo is not from today. It’s from 2004, in fact.)
After all his online pushing and postering, Jeff Jarvis finally winds up with some Howard Kurtz handshaking in the Washington Post. Much of what we know about Jeff comes from his MSNBC webcamming (and a $99 webcam at that) and his packed conference scheduling he once hoped to achieve and now laments.
All this leaves some gaps to be filled in our intimate level of curiosity usually saved for Maureen Dowd, but we’re rested after the long weekend and have plenty to go around.
Jarvis, of course, hobbled over to the New York Times‘ newest playground, About.com, leaving behind his comfy position as Advance’s online operations head. So who is this Jeff Jarvis, able to make liberal blogs sound worth reading while swapping spit with Bill Keller in the same breath?
He describes himself these days as “an obnoxious evangelist for the idea that what people have to say has value.” In his most grandiloquent formulation, he sees blogs as the rise of a new “citizens’ media,” in which ordinary folks can not only sound off but report, put up video and otherwise gather information without the imprimatur of big media companies.
“Journalism is impersonal, blogs are personal,” he says. “Journalism is dispassionate, blogs are passionate.”
Yep, passion. It’s what those blog things are all about. Ego and the pleasure gained from reading your own posts has as much to do with blogging as the Miss Universe pageant contest has to do with IQ points.
(Image via Gothamist)