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I made a contribution to Public Television a couple of months ago and specified that the $500. be paid in monthly installments. It was charged to my Discover card last month in the amount of $500. It appeared again on the bill from Discover this month. Can you please correct this?. I could not find a telephone number that was correct. I received a message from the person who answered to your number as Pepsi something

I am so upset with the situation with Sarah Palin. Has anyone out there, thought of the fact if MacCain cannot continue in the job of president, that Ms. Palin would become the president.

One of her admirers said that she is just for Herself and anyone who disagrees with her, they are out.......

Is this what we want in the WhiteHouse???? After all McCain is 72 and will be about 77 when he finishes his Presidentceny and he also is not a well man...... Think about, all you Republicans out there........

It seems like there has been a concurrent growth in interest in national and global issues with the growth of the up to the minute global media infrastructure and the internet, with the interest in local issues diminishing at the same pace. The perpetual presidential campaign of the last 18 months being a case in point, while political races in towns across the country are almost completely forgotten, and the interest in hyperlocal issues treated almost as a dying hobby.

What really causes this trend, and will it continue? How can new media help people engage with the local again?

will there be an updated verison that will work with vista and windows media player 11. It would be nice if would replace audicity software that come with an usb turntable

Where do you see the industry turning in regards to software piracy? There is speculation that this new "Web 2.0" isn't going to do very much in terms of protecting company's intellectual property from continuing to spread through the internet. There will always be backwards compatibility built into each O/S so customers can still run their existing hardware and software. If they released a new operating system without backwards compatibility there would be an uproar and people would not upgrade or switch to a different platform in retaliation. These backwards compatible doorways into the new technology create a hole that software pirates and hackers use to tunnel into and get around new security technologies. So, I guess my question to you is, just as I began, where do you see the industry turning, that is... what do you think they are going to do in both the near and distant future about security holes and leaks in order to better protect their intellectual property?

Mark, long time reader first time commenter :-)

What do you think the next big innovation in news and information delivery is going to be? I get invited to all kinds of social networking sites and it's just a mess to go through it all.

Hi:
My inquiry is a basic one, what is news? The 5:00 o'clock, and 6:00 o'clock [Eastern] news on CBS is very different from The Lehr Newshour [sorry about the spelling -if]. Where is there a list of new words in Media e.g. vett, mojo, bully pulpit etc.]?

Thanks, Guarionex

Thanks for sending me an invitation to obtain membership
in WHYY of PBS. I used to give $1000 a year to the Owings Mills Maryland PBS station. I no longer support CPB, PBS NPR or any affiliate because of the left wing political bias that now pervades your programming. I feel that since you are also getting taxpayer's funding, you have a responsibility to be fair and respectful of all political ideas and the political allegiances of all Americans, even Republicans.

Be fair and get my money again!

Mark,

I'm pretty sick of the state of online journalism. Regurgitated press releases and shallow reporting. But I've been impressed to see you take the extra mile with interviews and multiple sources. Is it difficult to keep up with a blog as a real journalist? Is that why so many places eschew quality for say timeliness.

- LP

Hi Mark. Theoretically one of the best things about new media is that the thousands of bloggers are constantly chacking facts and keeping people honest.

Seems to me that the facts are having limited effect and that people either like a candidate and see probing questions as attacks, or already hate him or her and see each new "revelation" as proof of what they already know.

Could it be that all of the fact checking and noise is making people stop listening critically to new information as it is revealed? Is there too much information?

Fredbird

When do we get beyond advocacy blogs? Can new media make a difference the political sphere's focus on argument over problem solving?