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Even the Nieman Report seems to have noticed. In the Spring 2001 issue, Robert Jensen reviews legendary journalist Arthur Rowse’s latest book, “Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know.” Rowse, according to Jensen, bemoans the increasingly self-interested behavior of American media, which he sees as paradigmatic of the replacement of “citizen democracy” by “corporate democracy.” Nonetheless, Rowse’s proposed societal reforms all center on the media itself. “When it comes...
...Here, Jensen and Rowse part ways. “Rowse’s prescription for improving the health of our political system primarily through media reform misses the point,” Jensen argues. “Media reform is crucial, but it has to be part of a larger social movement that addresses illegitimate structures of authority and unjust concentrations of power throughout the society, in private and public arenas.” Jensen worries that Rowse puts too much faith in journalism as both a concept and an institution...
...else in cinema ever imbued rubber and fur with the lifelike feel O'Brien achieved in "King Kong." The only other man who came close was Ray Harryhausen. But as Paul Jensen notes, "[Harryhausen] worked hard to make good, imaginative pictures, but he never worked with a person who could take him further than he might go alone, as Merian C. Cooper did for Willis O'Brien." Harryhausen was the aging animator's apprentice on his last great picture, "Mighty Joe Young," for which O'Brien won the Oscar. One of the lessons he learned was not to do things...
...Made the Monsters," Paul M. Jensen New York: Twayne Publishers...
...they might just take in the breathtaking views. Bill Jensen and his wife Carol moved to Sequim from Long Beach, Calif., to get away from traffic, crime and smog, something Bill never forgets when he looks outside and gazes on the Olympics. "Every day when I eat breakfast, I sit facing those mountains," he says. "Three years, and I'm still not tired of looking at them." --By Todd Murphy/Portland...