Tagged with 'news'

Cable News

Summarizing Liz Cox Barrett’s summary of the State of the News Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism:

Money spent on reporting (2006)
  • CNN: $273 million
  • Fox News: $266 million
  • MSNBC: $145 million (it’s presumed that they get a discount on recycled NBC news)
Last year’s #1 topic
  • CNN: U.S. foreign policy
  • Fox News: Crime
  • MSNBC: U.S. Politics
Topical focus
  • CNN: Spread among a range of topics
  • Fox News: Crime, celebrity and “the media”
  • MSNBC: Washington D.C., “the campaign” and political scandal
The frightening summary

“Evidence suggests programming built around a cast of hosts, often but not always the edgiest of cable personalities, were at the core of the [audience] growth.”

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CJR Launches The Observatory

This strikes me as good news:

Columbia Journalism Review is proud to announce the launch of The Observatory, a full-time department dedicated to critiquing the press coverage…

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The media in Iraq

Here’s an interesting survey about the demographics and opinions of journalists currently working in Iraq. CJR has a good summary I find their intro…

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We're going bananas over here!

Somewhat literally:

Thousands of bananas have been washed up on two Dutch islands in the North Sea after several containers fell off a cargo ship in a storm, officials say…

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One little typo away...

NPR has a fantastic story about Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp, known online as utube.com. More than occasionally mistaken for YouTube.com…

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What Can Be Fixed

In the middle of a NYT story on a deadly bombing in Iraq:

Many Iraqis, beleaguered at every turn, said they saw the bomb as an attempt to aggravate sectarian strife and as…

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Lawyer Tries 'D&D Defense'

From ICv2:

While the media has occasionally scapegoated adventure gaming(see "Monterey News Story Ties RPGs to Assault") and small time Savonarolas like Jack…

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