links for 2010-03-22

Says Fallows, "you cannot look at this "news" coverage and consider it other than outright political activism... For the sake of sanity, precision in language, self-respect, and any other desirable quality we can think of, let's drop the pretense about what's coming across on Fox."

Steve Safran: Affiliates will get their programming directly from production studios. You used to need syndicators for this process, and now you don’t. Can you think of any reason why a local affiliate shouldn’t be able to program its own lineup? Radio stations do it. Newspapers aren’t beholden to a master plan. It’s only TV, with its ancient DNA, that doesn’t take advantage of the new opportunities.

Surprisingly good early results from trial using cell phone in math class in rural north carolina.

FINANCE REFORM IS COMING: financial markets move quickly and democracy moves slowly. The crash of 1929 happens in 1929 in Glass-Steagall, which reforms Wall Street in a radical way, doesnt happen until 1933. There aren't even proper hearings on Capitol Hill about the crisis of '29 until I think late '32.