Indimellem overgår virkeligheden fantasien, og det er tilfældet i det følgende tre True Crime-podcasts, der alle undersøger eller forsøger at opklare gamle kriminalsager.
West Cork er produceret af Audible og handler om mordet på den franske filmproducer Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Eller i virkeligheden er det historien om manden, der bliver mistænkt for at myrde hende. Det er den vildeste historie om jantelov, egoer, inkompetance og justitsmord(?).
Taget 5. november 2016, få dage før valget, hvor mantraet Trump! Trump! Trump! genlød foran Trump Tower i New York.
Hvis man skal finde én god ting ved valget af Trump, så er det opblomstringen af politiske podcasts: De forklarende, de underholdende, de nørdede.
Flere af de studerende på vores radiohold på SDU har spurgt, hvilke podcast jeg selv lytter til – og med næsten 800 uafspillede podcast-afsnit på min telefon, kan jeg konstatere: ikke særligt mange. Men det er bestemt ikke, fordi der mangler god lyd, tværtimod, der findes så mange utroligt fede udsendelser og eksperimenter, at jeg abonnerer på langt flere podcasts, end jeg når at høre. I de følgende fire blogposts (de næste tre indlæg kommer snarest!) vil jeg forsøge at samle anbefalinger i forskellige genre: journalistisk håndværk, britisk comedy, lydkollektiver (der ikke er Radiotopia) & videnskabs-formidling. Dette blogindlæg handler om podcasts, der på den ene eller anden måde beskæftiger sig med journalistik – som oftest journalistik formidlet for ørene.
The Fishwives’ Tale er en af de fineste dokumentarer, jeg længe har hørt. Den handler om en flok fiskerkoner, der har lavet et kor – eller rettere sagt, så handler den om, hvordan man kommer videre, når ens mand dør på havet, – f.eks. ved at lave et kor. Udsendelsen varer kun 28 minutter, og det er svært ikke at trække på smilebåndet over damernes bramfrihed – og lidt tårer i øjnene byder den også på. Jeg kom flere gange til at tænke på den norske film Heftig og begejstret om Berlevågs mandskor, The Fishwives’ Tale byder på samme type rørende (menneske-)fortællinger – tilsat sang. De taler en smule hurtigt, britisk og ustruktureret i starten, men bliver lettere at forstå efter nogle minutter. Dokumentaren er lavet af lyddesigner og dokumentarist Hana Walker-Brown – og den er desuden nomineret til prisen for bedste dokumentar til Prix Europa i Berlin. Tjek, eventuelt damernes Facebook-side for mere info om gigs og EP-salg – eller hør deres sange på Soundcloud.
I godt en måned, har jeg ikke hørt andet end de senneste plader fra Josh Ritter og Glen Hansard – og der er vist ikke nogen tvivl om, at Hansard-pladen bliver min mest lyttede plade i år. Numre som Her Mercy og My Little Ruin – åh!
Listening to This American Life host Ira Glass talking about, what makes an interesting story makes me regret, we didn’t talk much more about this in journalism school:
Making stories that are constantly saying: look how different this is, than you would think, look how interesting this is, look how much more interesting, this is than you would think it, constantly searching for stories where there would be little surprises all the way through, all along, what that’s doing is reasserting that the world, it is reasserting the world to its proper size, you know, reasserting that the world is a place where surprise and pleasure and joy and humour exists, it makes things hopeful, you know. This is my problem with most radio and television news, it is that they make the world seem less interesting than they are.
If you for some weird reason haven’t listened to every single episode of This American Life and Radiolab – I sincerely envy you and promise you, you’re in for a treat!
Since 2008 I’ve been working on a documentary together with my friend Anders Birch. In august we finally finished it, got accepted at CPH:dox and this sunday we got nominated for a Robert award for best short documentary. We are of course both happy and proud (and a wee bit surprised).
Unfortunately there isn’t planned any viewings at the moment, but we’re crossing our fingers that telly *looking at you DR* will show it – as we (stating the obvious here) think the story is important. The documentary is called “A leaf falls to the sky” (Et blad falder til himlen) and has the writer Knud Romer as main character in a story about life and death, growing up – and most importantly about how we in our society treat the elderly like they don’t belong, like it’s okay to store them in facilities – “care” homes, like caged animals.
Beth Noveck former deputy chief technology officer for US open government and author of the book Wiki Government, teaches a course at NYCWagner in Open Government. They’ve just posted the syllabus, and there’s lots of great inspiration, for those of us who can’t be in NYC this term: Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance and Re-imagining Democracy for the 21st Century
As part of my MA studies I’ve been forced encouraged to read a lot about/of McLuhan and technological determinism. Some of it good, some great, some “in the future you should cut down on the LSD”. I’d never really had a reason to study his writings and to spare others from reading the real sh**e once I’ve collected some of the videos and writings I found most interesting:
Easy to read Playboy interview with McLuhan from 1969
“Marshall McLuhan the man and his message” – one hour documentary, introduced by Tom Wolfe from 1984:
Marshall McLuhan – the man and his message
Marshall McLuhan – full lecture: The medium is the message – 1977:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Marshall McLuhan – the global village – a short introduction – quite impressive for someone who didn’t live to see the internet take off and worth watching if you’re interested in Yochai Benkler and his theory of Social Production.
Also worth reading/watching is Tom Pettitt explaining the Gutenberg theory – a theory which states that digitalization is causing a return to the oral era – or the culture of the oral era – which makes the printing press and Gutenberg a mere parenthetical sentence (this was food for thought for me!)
Tom Wolfe’s article about McLuhan “suppose he is what he sounds like, the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Pavlov, what if he is right?”
Enjoy!
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