I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The first Internet presidency is realized, more than a concept now that President-elect Obama has given his first weekly radio address via YouTube.
To those of us who “live” online, this is not at all unexpected; we’d be more surprised if Obama had not posted his address online in both audio and video formats. But the world of radio is shocked and disappointed, apparently not realizing that a “radio address” doesn’t actually mean exclusively on radio. You can hear disappointment and even indignation in the voices of National Public Radio’s Susan Stamberg and Andrea Seabrook as they discuss their surprise at Obama’s move to YouTube.
Print media appears somewhat less shocked and disappointed, if the Washington Post’s new column, The Clickocracy, gives any indication. Perhaps print has more fully come to grips with the fusion of print and digital media than radio has; there is a note of je ne sais quoi, though, even to WaPo’s post regarding the first video address via YouTube.
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