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  • by Jason Pramas, Aug-27

    It may seem odd to some of our viewers that a relatively small online community news weekly like Open Media Boston helped organize an event at WGBH like last Saturday's Public Media Camp Boston. But it shouldn't. Times are changing. As ever. The once mighty American mass media - including both its commercial and public wings - is in trouble to some extent. Commercial media, especially news media, isn't able to sell as many ads as it could prior to the rise of the internet; so there is less money around for them. This has badly hurt the bottom line of traditional print news publications and broadcast news shows.

Arts

  • by Shirley Moskow, Aug-05

    “Art for All, British Posters for Transport,” the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT is aptly named. Certainly, posters are the most democratic form of art. Plastered on walls in public places, they’re available to everyone, as is the Yale Center for British Art, which charges no admission.

    Posters are decorative eye-candy. And this is one sweet show. But posters are also a powerful economic, social and political tool. The image is the message. Its appeal is basic. It can be understood quickly and by anyone.