{"id":46,"date":"2006-08-10T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2006-08-10T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T15:49:47","slug":"state-contractor-files-federal-lawsuit-against-me-maine-web-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me \u00bb Maine Web Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me \u00bb Maine Web Report<\/a><\/p>\n

So, I keep thinking that I need to get back to reading about media literacy and working on my bibliography.\u00a0 Then, I take “just a second” to check my rss feeds on netvibes and some media story captures my attention.\u00a0 Today, Andy Carvin pointed me in the direction of Lance Dutson, who was sued by the advertising agent for the state of Maine.\u00a0 What did he do?\u00a0 He published a copy of their ad that includes a 1-800 number that goes to a sex site.\u00a0 I missed this when it first broke in April.\u00a0 Grad school does that to you.<\/p>\n

Stories like this illustrate the fact that the curriculum for a media literacy course is happening right now.\u00a0 What are the issues here?\u00a0 If a print or online newspaper like the NY Times published the ad along with the news story, I don’t think the ad agency could do anything but hang its head.\u00a0 So, why go after the blogger?\u00a0 Because he isn’t a “real” journalist?\u00a0 He does belong to the Media Bloggers Association<\/a>, and pressure from bloggers and others led to the lawsuit being dropped.<\/p>\n

This is old media versus new media.\u00a0 Once again, as in the case of Wikipedia, old media resorts to the courts while new media resorts to public opinion.\u00a0 Old media thinks it can own stuff, particularly software, so a seemingly cutting edge company like Blackboard, which even though it operates on the web really acts like old media, uses the patent system to put pressure on competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me \u00bb Maine Web Report So, I keep thinking that I need to get back to reading about media literacy and working on my bibliography.\u00a0 Then, I take “just a second” to check my rss feeds on netvibes and some media story captures my attention.\u00a0 Today, Andy Carvin pointed … Continue reading State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me \u00bb Maine Web Report<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media","category-old-media","category-paradigm-shifts"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}