Lizzie Gets Posted

After numerous nights sans sleep, I’m proud to announce the release of NYC24: BODY, the online news magazine I helped edit and build.
Check it out!
Here’s our press release:
NYC24.com Launches The Body IssueReal stories, reported from New York City
Feb. 15, 2008 — The New Media Workshop at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism announces the latest [...]

Poor Jessica Simpson (Really)

I’m not Jessica Simpson’s biggest fan. In fact, her (father’s??) strategy of dumbing herself down in order to sell her persona makes my blood boil. But I have to draw the line somewhere.
In my opinion, Terrell Owens can go screw. He’s the one being the most vocal about blaming Jessica for the Dallas Cowboys loss [...]

Breaking News: Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement

WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter “Buck” McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women’s rights. . . .
“All the feminist movement needed to do was bring on someone who had the [...]

November 23 is Buy Nothing Day!

Come all ye fair and tender shoppers
Be careful how you spend your dough
It’s like a puddle after a rainstorm
It first appears, then there’s no more
Tralala, it’s Buy Nothing Day! If you’re in the US or Canada, that is; in other countries it’s November 24. Buy Nothing Day was founded in 1992 to help us think [...]

Blogging through the Culinary Underbelly

This year, for the second time in my writing life, I thought about participating in Nanowrimo.
When I did Nano before, in 2003, I wrote an awful 50,000 word genre novel. I didn’t pretend it was serious work, but I was proud of the accomplishment. There’s something intimidating about a novel–all that time, and all those [...]

Post office: another chance for small journals!

I’ve written before about the U.S. Post Office’s misguided (read: guided by TimeWarner) plot to raise postage sky-high for small periodicals and simultaneously lower it for huge ones. The Postal Regulatory Commission voted to put these new rules in effect on July 15; a massive petition effort has caused them to hold hearings on the [...]

How Mainstream Media Broke Its Contract With Readers, part II

In my last post I discussed the way main stream media (MSM) inevitably ran the small press out of business, and now I’m going to finish up my critique through a discussion of how I think MSM actively broke its trust with readers.
The press should operate as the fourth estate — a check on government [...]

How Main Stream Media Killed the Small Press

During a recent Critical Issues lecture, the professor asked me if I thought the growing popularity of web communities was evidence that the public had lost faith in mainstream media. I believe I sputtered something at the mic, but the question got me thinking and I would like to respond to it more fully [...]