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.”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…