Archive for the ‘media+reform’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
While Knol is only three weeks old and still relatively obscure, it has already rekindled fears among some media companies that Google is increasingly becoming a competitor. They foresee Google's becoming a powerful rival that not only owns a growing number of content properties, including YouTube, the top online video ...
Posted in knol, google, media+reform, business, technology | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Today, the Los Angeles Times ordered its bloggers not to talk about the story.Read the full story
Posted in love+child, latimes, hunter, media+reform, edwards | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Monday, July 7th, 2008
"Mr. Wolfson said he especially relished the chance to take on another Fox News analyst fresh from the political battlefield, the Republican strategist Karl Rove." Wolfson to play Colmes to Rove's Hannity? On one hand, it's good to see more democratic operatives on Fox...on the other hand, it's sad to ...
Posted in wolfson, media+reform, 2008+elections, Uncategorized | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Stephen Colbert's courageous tenacity speaking truth to power at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner deserves another look. He was mocking McCain as a maverick before the Bush administration had rearranged the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. McClellan and Scalia are there too and some not so subtle jabs at ...
Posted in white+house, colbert, media, media+reform, bush, u.s.+news | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
"They're not making jokes about Dan Quayle is dumb or Gerald Ford is clumsy," he said. "They're not making jokes that you could get if you live in the country but don't read the news ... . You can't get the jokes if you're not watching the news. The jokes ...
Posted in rosenstiel, journalism, media+reform, the+daily+show | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Many U.S. military analysts used as commentators on Iraq by television networks have been groomed by the Pentagon, leaving some feeling they were manipulated to report favorably on the Bush administration, The New York Times said in Sunday editions.Read the full story
Posted in media, media+reform, military, iraq | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
You asked questions about Skewz.com on April 2nd and April 3rd. Here are your answers. This media bias stuff is tricky to deal with. Both Skewz and Microsoft's Blewz are trying, anyway. Skewz people say they want to jump into the conversation attached to this post, so if you have ...
Posted in media+bias, skewz, blewz, microsoft, media+reform, technology | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday. Also, Katie Couric to be played by Larry King.
Read the full story
Posted in cbs+news, media, journalism, media+reform, cnn | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Ethan Zuckerman: I was thrilled to get an email from Nicholas Kayser-Bril earlier today, introducing me to his research with Gilles Bruno on media attention. The pair...Read the full story
Posted in media+attention, cartgograms, media+reform, open+society | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
“We are uncomfortable with the term ‘citizen journalism,’ ” said Todd Wolfson, 35, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the organizers of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia. “We prefer the term ‘community journalism.’ ”Read the full story
Posted in citizen+journalism, media+reform, open+society | No Comments » | Post to NewsCloud »