ATTENTION REMIXERS!

ATTENTION REMIXERS!

If you haven't seen Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism yet, and you've stopped on Fox News this year to do anything other than gawk at their gall, you might want to give it a watch. Jim Gilliam has conducted a serious amount of research, and created a fairly airtight (and pretty entertaining) thesis about how and why American cable news got ugly over the last 20 years.

And now, Jim is giving away the full recordings of all the interviews he conducted, for your listening and remixing pleasure.

Listening to these interviews scares me as much as anything. It shows how inadequate our checks and balances are in the media these days, how an awful lot of people seem neither a clue about, nor desire to hew to, the standards of journalism, and where that steep decline began. The first step to changing the tone of what we see and hear, and what's being reported or ignored, is to spread the word. So go forth and multiply the message, brothers and sisters, and send me your best stuff. I'll have the opportunity to play it at some very influential parties over the next few weeks.

(Speaking of which: I'm playing a show tonight. Come on down.)

[via Devoter]