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Pressing Issues: Wrestling with Sarah Palin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0500

No one goes off quite like Matt Taibbi and now he has gone off on poor Sarah Palin. He does give her her due as a "gifted" politicians who leaves a Rush Limbaugh "in the dust." His conclusion:

She is the country?s first WWE [...]

WSJ.com: Media & Marketing: Oprah, in Tears, Sets End Date for Show

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:42:19 -0500

In a live broadcast from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving her long-running program "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011.

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FishBowlDC: Today's Most Popular Stories 11.20.09

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:06:56 -0500

Each day, Ashley Estill surfs your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for November 20, 2009:

Washington Post: Angry Congress lashes out at Obama

Washington Times: Health bill could get 34-hour reading in Senate

Washington Examiner: Oprah Winfrey says prayer, careful [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: James Murdoch sees TV, not papers, as key to future

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:32:00 -0500

James Murdoch's speech to investors in Barcelona yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation plans to take in the coming years. His key quote:

In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do think journalism plays a role, and we do [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: South African newspapers suffer circulation falls

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

Daily and weekly newspapers in South Africa have just suffered some of the worst circulation figures in living memory. With the exceptions of the Afrikaans daily Die Son and the Zulu daily Isolezwe, all titles reported third-quarter year-on-year losses.

Witwatersrand j-school professor Anton Harber said the country's newspapers [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Why Twitter is not to blame for creating storms

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:38:00 -0500

Joanna Geary, web development editor for The Times and one of the most thoughtful of journalistic bloggers, has an interesting take on Twitter storm controversies.

Stimulated by Stephen Fry's defence of his own so-called influence during the Jan Moir episode, Geary raises a couple [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Cumberland News keeps its head above water to report flooding

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:30:00 -0500

The Cumberland News and its sister papers are rising (please forgive pun) to the occasion today in their online reportage of the floods in Cockermouth. Its live webchat service, Cumbria under water, is keeping everyone informed about developments with minute-by-minute updates from readers, police and reporters.

It [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Michael Heath picks up a well-deserved award

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:35:00 -0500

Congratulations to Michael Heath, who last night won a lifetime achievement award at the Cartoon Art Trust awards. It is well deserved. Throughout his lengthy career, which stretches back to the early 1950s, he has been entertaining newspaper and magazine readers with brilliantly funny cartoons.

His success [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Rupert, is The Times guilty of stealing content?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:08:00 -0500

Monkey reports that movie director Edgar Wright is unhappy that The Times ran his blogged tribute to the actor Edward Woodward without his permission as if it were an article written for the paper. How dos this square with Rupert Murdoch's intense dislike for [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: France's Henry gets thumbs down from newspapers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:31:00 -0500

Those incorrigible Corrigan Brothers, the Irish band that composed and sang the memorable international hit There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama, have turned their musical attention to the handball by Thierry Henry that cheated Ireland out of a place in the world cup finals. So [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Why Trinity Mirror's TV pilot hopes make sense

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:00 -0500

The bidding process for regional TV news pilot schemes has proved to be somewhat tortuous. But today's news of the Trinity Mirror/Press Association/Ten Alps joint bid shows that they have not been put off by the lengthy procedure.

After all, there's the lure of public money, which [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: New report records press freedom dangers in Mexico

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:00 -0500

I have written several times over the past couple of years about murderous attacks on journalists in Mexico. Now the human rights group Article 19,
in conjunction with its Mexican partner Cencos, has produced a report about the continuing deterioration of freedom of expression in [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: PCC under pressure - but we've been here before

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:27:00 -0500

Following Baroness Buscombe's pre-emptive response to a letter of complaint by bloggers - organised through the website LiberalConspiracy.org - the site's editor, Sunny Hundal, offers "a series of thoughts."

You'll find them here. But the blogging attack on the Press Complaints Commission is only part [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Two journalists shot and wounded in Somalia

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:48:00 -0500

Two journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in Somalia. On Tuesday, Voice of America reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the shoulder by a police officer just after being stopped at a police checkpoint.

And yesterday, Abdirahman Warsame of Xinhua [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: PCC chairman Buscombe clarifies blogging aims

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:27:00 -0500

PCC chairman Peta Buscombe has said she does not want to regulate bloggers after all unless they sign up for it

Further to the earlier posting about the bloggers' response to Baroness Buscombe, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission...

Buscombe has pre-empted the sending of a letter by [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Tories talk sense over cross-media ownership rules

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:05:00 -0500

I am no supporter of the Conservative party. But, aside from worrying about its intentions towards the BBC, I think its shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, may be on the right track in terms of changing the rules over localised cross-media ownership, as I write today in [...]

Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: US poll finds that 80% won't pay for online news access

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:57:00 -0500

Hardly a day goes by without a poll saying how many people will or will not pay for access to online news. Today's survey, courtesy of Forrester Research polled 4,000 people in the US and found that 80% will not pay for online newspapers or magazines.

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Greenslade: Roy Greenslade: Judges show good sense in striking out two 'weak' libel suits

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:37:00 -0500

Just a week after the launch of a campaign to reform Britain's iniquitous libel law comes heartening news of judicial good sense over two libel actions.

Nigel Hanson, a lawyer with Foot Anstey, reports that judges have given "short shrift to two weak defamation [...]

Slate Magazine - Press Box: The Obama-Fox press war can't hold a flame to the one FDR waged in the 1930s.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:35:43 -0400

For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.

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Talking Biz News: Bloomberg Press to close

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:33 -0500

Jon Friedman of Marketwatch.com reports that the Bloomberg Press unit of Bloomberg LP will be closed once the company completes its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine.

Friedman writes, “The division published a handful of titles a year and had eight staffers. Bloomberg hopes to place [...]

NewsBusters.org: Martha Stewart Says Sarah Palin Is 'A Dangerous Person'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:50:43 -0500

Martha Stewart on Friday said former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is "a dangerous person," and "anyone like that in government is a real problem."

Speaking with HLN's "Showbiz Tonight" producer Jenny D'Attoma, Stewart also said Palin is "very boring" and "confused."�

Ironically, when asked if she has seen [...]

Romenesko: Williams has grown increasingly confident about showing his comedic side

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:19:33 -0500

Los Angeles Times
The NBC News anchor has been on "30 Rock," Wait, Wait ... Dont Tell Me, and other comedy shows. "In airline pilot terms, I feel like I have enough stripes on my sleeve to be able to do more of it," Brian Williams tells Matea Gold. [...]

Pressing Issues: Beck As In Wreck?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:00 -0500

NYT just out with big piece on Glenn Beck announcing today that he is going "activist" in an even bigger way: "Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. He says he will promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of conventions across [...]

NewsBusters.org: Harry Reid Rips WaPo's David Broder On Senate Floor

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:41 -0500

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Saturday said the Senate shouldn't "focus on a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while."

This comment was directed at Washington Post columnist David Broder whose article to be published Sunday and [...]

Media Matters for America: Quick Fact: WSJ 's Freeman claims "there hasn't been any warming since 1998"; climate experts disagree

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:22:32 -0500

Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James Freeman claimed that efforts to pass cap and trade legislation will fail because there is "no premise" for such legislation since "there hasn't been any warming since 1998," later adding that "there's no proof that this is happening as a result of [...]

NewsBusters.org: Bill Clinton Blames Keith Olbermann for Having to Skip Charity Event

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:59 -0500

A major charitable event is happening in Little Rock, Arkansas, Saturday, and former Bill Clinton apparently will not be in attendance because MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has politicized it on his "Countdown" program.

As Arkansas News reported hours ago, "Nine hundred people or more will get free medical attention [...]

NewsBusters.org: ABC's Johnson Recites Canard Lack of Health Insurance Kills 45,000 Annually

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:48 -0500

In contending America already has health care rationing, ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, a universal coverage advocate, on Friday night's World News asserted ?we have a lot of rationing, based on income, the kind of insurance you have, the way you can navigate the health system? and ?a recent [...]

NYT > Media and Advertising: Scene Stealer: Ad Budget Tight? Call the P.R. Machine

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:47:15 -0500

Movie studios have cut paid advertising and are leaning more heavily on free coverage in print, television and online outlets generated by publicists.

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NYT > Media and Advertising: Best Soup Ever? Suits Over Ads Now Seek Proof

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:22 -0500

Companies that were once content to fight in store aisles and on commercials are choosing a different route ? formal grievances challenging their competitors? claims.

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NYT > Media and Advertising: Pundit Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:17:18 -0500

The conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is planning voter registration drives and rallies, but he is cautious about how he might directly support particular candidates.

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FishBowlDC: The C in C-SPAN is For Carlson

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:16:14 -0500

This Sunday at 7:30am on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" you'll see Tucker Carlson and Margaret Carlson.

Yes, the C in C-SPAN is not for cookie, it's for Carlson.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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NewsBusters.org: 'Louisiana Purchase' Landrieu Blames ABC Report of $100 Million Buyoff on 'Very Partisan Republican Bloggers'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:30:27 -0500

What's $100 million of taxpayer money between a few U.S. Senators?

After reports surfaced of $100 million for Louisiana was added to the Senate's health care reform legislation, originally from ABC News, and subsequently commented upon by prominent lefties, like U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe as [...]

NewsBusters.org: Jews May Get Frosty Feelings as Obama White House Cuts Hanukkah Party Guest List in Half

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:07:49 -0500

With the holiday season approaching, the latest liberal fashion in media bias by omission will be papering over any hard feelings about White House holiday celebrations. Already (as Patrick Gavin of Politico has pointed out), the Jerusalem Post reported that the guest list of the annual White House [...]

NewsBusters.org: CBS News.com: Democrat Nelson 'Has Cast Many a Conservative Vote'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:58:48 -0500

Yesterday, CBS News.com's Political Hotsheet blog reported on "Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and the Politics of the Health Care Vote."� It notes:

The focus is also on some Democrats with doubts, notably Louisiana's Mary Landrieu and Nebraska's Ben Nelson, who aren't up but do represent [...]

NewsBusters.org: Bonnie Erbe Shockingly Bashes Mary Landrieu's $100 Million Bribe

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:52:54 -0500

U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe came down strongly Friday on the $100 million "bribe" given to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in the Senate's healthcare reform bill.

What makes this shocking is Erbe's consistently far-left leaning views regularly reported by NewsBusters. �

Readers are advised to strap [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: David Vines: If It Were Me, I'd Be Embarrassed

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:50:00 -0500

It's nice to see that even after the election, conservatives are still playing the "liberal gotcha media" card every time they expose themselves as being shamefully ignorant regarding the issues they care about most.

Last Wednesday, a media firestorm erupted after a seventeen-year-old girl named Jackie was interviewed by MSNBC's [...]

Pressing Issues: Mary, Mary, Not Contrary

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:25:00 -0500

Sen. Landrieu just came out for allowing the Democrats' health reform bill to come to a vote (without committing to actually voting for it). That left Sen. Lincoln of Arkansas to possibly cast the deciding vote. And, at about 2:30 pm, she said, yes, she would [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Fred Schulte, Senior Reporter For HuffPost Investigative Fund, Talks Digitizing Medical Records On NPR (AUDIO)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:56:33 -0500

Fred Schulte, a senior reporter for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, talked with NPR's Scott Simon Saturday morning about the overlooked technology companies that stand to make huge profits in the push to digitize the nation's medical records.

"The government's $45 billion plan to jump-start a national shift to [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Bill Moyers Plays LBJ Tapes, Draws Similarities With Obama And Afghanistan War

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:13:26 -0500

On Friday night, Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes on his PBS television show. Moyers drew correlations between the factors facing President Johnson in his decision to send more troops to Vietnam, and President Obama's conundrum with respect to the war in Afghanistan.

From his [...]

NewsBusters.org: John King: Holder Didn't Want To Admit KSM Trial Precedent Setting

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:55:52 -0500

CNN's John King on Thursday claimed Attorney General Eric Holder intentionally avoided Sen. Lindsey Graham's "stumping" question during the previous day's Senate Judiciary Committtee hearing because he didn't want to admit that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects in a criminal courtroom is indeed precedent setting.

As [...]

NewsBusters.org: Tax Increase Campaign Item 3: Wars Cost Money And Rich Must Pay, MI Senator Levin Tells Bloomberg

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:37:22 -0500

At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.

Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]

Talking Biz News: Market News International acquires Need to Know News

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:36:04 -0500

Market News International’s parent announced that it has acquired Need to Know News, a Washington-based news firm specializing in the delivery of economic statistics.

A Market News story states, “Employees of the firms were informed of the transaction in a joint statement by Market News International President [...]

NewsBusters.org: Saturday Sports Open Thread

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:25:04 -0500

What are today's biggest Big games and biggest upsets?

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NewsBusters.org: Open Thread

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:19:51 -0500

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: WHAT ELSE?

SENATE DEBATES HEALTHCARE REFORM

ON CSPAN 2 RIGHT NOW

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NewsBusters.org: NYT: New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Working

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:01:23 -0500

Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built [...]

Pressing Issues: Believe It Or Not: 'E&P' Nabs Joe the Plumber Scoop

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:59:00 -0500

About the last person we expected my magazine to interview out in the heartland was Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher. But the intrepid former E&P intern and reporter (he covered both the 2004 and 2008 political conventions and Obama's inauguration for us, and also was part of [...]

NewsBusters.org: Bozell Column: Words for Potent Jerks

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:05 -0500

It is amazing how a phrase can emerge seemingly out of nowhere to become the statement du jour ? used, overused, and ultimately abused. Last year there was "low hanging fruit" everywhere. Today everyone?s being "thrown under the bus."

Sometimes, it?s just one word.

"As a writer, you?re [...]

Pressing Issues: A Mad Man's Greatest Hits

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:29:00 -0500

The Best of Roger Sterling's one-liners.
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NewsBusters.org: 'Screaming' Time Writer Tells Maddow It Was Army Corps of Engineers Who Killed '1,000' During Katrina

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:22:22 -0500

You could call it progress in media bias. For years, liberal journalists have�blamed Team Bush�for the death of hundreds in Hurricane Katrina. The major media found that theme of fatal incompetence simply irresistible. Time?s Michael Grunwald, who has written in-depth articles and a book about the Army Corps of Engineers, [...]

NewsBusters.org: Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million 'Louisiana Purchase' Buyoff: 'It's a New Kind of Business as Usual'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:26:04 -0500

Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"?

Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post [...]

Editor And Publisher - Breaking News: Joe the Plumber Hits Media Coverage, Tells 'E&P' He Hopes Palin Does Not Run in 2012

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

In a wide-ranging interview with former E&P reporter Charles Geraci, Wurzelbacher also shared his thoughts on Sarah Palin (he hopes she doesn't run for president in 2012), Palin's references to him in her new book, and the charge that he has capitalized off the publicity that has come with being [...]

Media Matters for America: Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wrong to say British judge ruling on An Inconvenient Truth "favored his point of view"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:12:13 -0500

In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, in Hannity's words, "favored his point of view" was "absolutely false."

From the November 20 edition of [...]

NewsBusters.org: AFP Writes Up Proposed Tax With 'Next to No Chance' of Passage to Set Stage For the Real Thing

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:14 -0500

You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]

Media Matters for America: Quick Fact: Hannity falsely suggests Democratic health bills would "actually" only insure "12 million" people

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:52 -0500

Sean Hannity responded to a statement by Democratic strategist Jacques DeGraff that "We're on the threshold of taking care of 31 million Americans who don't have health insurance" by claiming that "It's actually 12 million" who would get insurance.

From the November 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

FORMER MD GOV. ROBERT ERLICH: [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Chris Matthews Criticizes Obama Using Cheney's "Dithering" Remark (VIDEO)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:41:54 -0500

On Friday night's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney's book and accused the president of "dithering" over Afghanistan.

"President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there. Health care. Terror trials. Job losses." Matthews began. He [...]

NYT > Media and Advertising: An Unsteady Future for Broadcast

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:05 -0500

Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.

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NYT > Media and Advertising: G.E. and Vivendi Halt Talks Over Stake in NBC

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:04 -0500

The sides appear to be at least $500 million apart on how to value NBC Universal, which G.E. is hoping to sell to Comcast, the big cable television company.

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Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Bill Clinton Blasts Olbermann For Politicizing Health Care Event, Refuses To Go

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:01:13 -0500

On Friday, Bill Clinton decided not to attend a health care event organized by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann because Olbermann had "politicized" the event.

He explained his decision to FireDogLake's Eve Gittelso, who ran into Clinton in a gift shop of the Clinton Library in Arkansas:

"Clinton responded that Olbermann [...]

Media Matters for America: Quick Fact: Fearmongering about rationing, Baier falsely claimed a "federal panel" promulgated cervical cancer guidelines

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:23 -0500

Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released cervical cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the door to this conversation about rationing." Additionally, Mara Liasson suggested that that the Senate health care reform bill would implement a task force's recommendations [...]

NewsBusters.org: Bad Headline: 'Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:40:14 -0500

Cam Edwards giggled as he shared his "Headline of the Week" with his audience Friday night at NRANews.com. It comes from Indianapolis: "Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage."

Understandably, while that headline remains on Google, WXIN (Fox 59) has changed the headline now to the more appropriate "Homeowner holds burglar [...]

NewsBusters.org: NYT Environmental Writer Confirms Probable Authenticity of Hacked Climate Change Messages

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:00 -0500

Let us give New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin credit. He is one of the few in the mainstream media reporting on the hacked global warming e-mails story which has gone viral in the blogosphere and was covered in-depth by NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard. If you [...]

NewsBusters.org: CNN's Phillips: Kids Who Bully Pledge Spurner Are 'Wads, Dork Wads'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:15:08 -0500

On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted.� Some of his classmates allegedly call him names.� Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling:

And [...]

Media Matters for America: Media Matters: The Palin chronicles

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:22 -0500

It was all too predictable.

From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part [...]

NewsBusters.org: CNBC?s Regan Worries 'Freshman Congressmen from Timbuktu' to Have Too Much Policy Influence if Fed Audit Bill Passed

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:06 -0500

It's an issue that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed socialist agree on: Congress should have the authority to call for the Federal Reserve to be audited.

But it is also something that some in the financial media are reluctant to support, especially [...]

Media Matters for America: Greg Lewis: The Friday Rush: A series of conflicts

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:44:09 -0500

Once upon a time, Rush Limbaugh would profess how conservative thinkers like Charles Krauthammer were the bee's knees. He even said, on more than one occasion, that he would consider trading brains with Krauthammer:

LIMBAUGH: As you may remember my having said -- and I'll say it again -- I [...]

paidContent.org: ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:10 -0500

Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, [...]

NewsBusters.org: Oops! Frequent Maddow Guest Cox Undercuts Nicolle Wallace's Catty Claims About Palin

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:18:47 -0500

Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow.

Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life."

Maddow [...]

NYT > Media and Advertising: Japan Seeks to Check Ties to Exclusive Press Clubs

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:25 -0500

The authorities are expanding access to journalists who don?t belong to cartel-like media groups that analysts say have produced a relatively spineless press.

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Deadline Hollywood Daily: "Richard, This Is Bryan. I TOLD You Not To Buy A Jet From Nic Cage."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:10:19 -0500

Number of comments: 9
Actually, this Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation passenger plane yesterday missed the runway in eastern Congo. But it's Friday afternoon. And this is what the CAA jet would probably look like. I'm no comedian. What's your best caption? [...]

Media Matters for America: Limbaugh distorts apparently stolen emails to falsely claim global warming is "made up"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:32 -0500

Rush Limbaugh -- who had previously condemned the "thugs" who hacked then-Gov. Sarah Palin's email account -- joined right-wing bloggers in touting a series of emails that were apparently stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit [CRU]. Limbaugh proceeded to distort at least one of the emails in order to [...]

WSJ.com: Media & Marketing: Oprah, in Tears, Sets End Date for Show

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:42:19 -0500

In a live broadcast from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving her long-running program "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011.

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paidContent.org: Nielsen Biz Selling Print, Online But Not Until December; Lachlan Murdoch Considering Investing

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:18:06 -0500

No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein?s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that [...]

paidContent.org: Finally, MySpace Music Licenses 'Fifth Label' Merlin; Reins in Fiercest Critic

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:10:10 -0500

MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin, according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major sticking point related to equity. MySpace [...]

Deadline Hollywood Daily: 10 Animated Shorts Advance For Oscars

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:37:44 -0500

Number of comments: 4
Beverly Hills, CA ? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards�. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their [...]

NewsBusters.org: MSNBC?s Matthews Finds Obama?s Weakness: He?s ?Too Darned Intellectual?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:14 -0500

At the top of Friday?s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews discovered the reason for President Obama?s political difficulties in recent months: ?President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there....He?s exposed and vulnerable. His poll numbers are dropping. Is he just too darned intellectual? [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Bill Moyers Retiring From Weekly Television

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:08 -0500

Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.

The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010.

"Bill Moyers Journal" launched in April 2007.

Jensen reports that it was Moyers' intention to retire at Christmas this [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Dominic Carter Found GUILTY Of Attempted Assault On Wife

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:38 -0500

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.

The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sentence statement Friday saying Carter, 46, was found guilty of third-degree attempted assault.

The maximum sentence [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Bill Simmons Twitter Suspension: ESPN.com Writer Reportedly Suspended For Two Weeks

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:49 -0500

ESPN has punished Bill Simmons for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI. ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King wrote a blog post to confirm the news, writing that "we've taken appropriate measures."

ESPN Radio and WEEI announced a partnership on October 7, and Simmons has criticized the [...]

Talking Biz News: BusinessWeek staff moves: 3rd update

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:12 -0500

Here are some more decisions made at BusinessWeek about its future staff once it is acquired by Bloomberg LP next month.

The previous list had gotten too long, according to some, to track.

1. Cliff Edwards, a correspondent in the Silicon Valley bureau, where he covers Intel, [...]

Media Matters for America: In LA video, O'Keefe and Giles expose their own dishonesty

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:18:22 -0500

In making public a video he withheld for more than two months, right-wing activist James O'Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN employee "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities" -- an admission that directly contradicts claims by his colleague Hannah Giles that no ACORN [...]

College Media Matters: Northwestern Innocence Project Sparks Journalism Debate

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:05 -0500

In case you have been stuck on no-journalism-allowed island recently: Past undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University working on the famed Innocence Project have been accused of�bribing witnesses and�acting�somewhat�inappropriately�while investigating a murder case that eventually set a wrongfully-convicted man free.� As the New York Times reports: Illinois prosecutors “said that [...]

FishBowlNY: The Next Oprah|WashingtonPost.com Layoffs|Harbinger Cuts NYTCo. Stake|James Murdoch's Thoughts On Papers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

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TVNewser: Take the poll: Who is the next Oprah?

MediaJobsDaily: The Washington Post Co. laid off staffers today from washingtongpost.com.

Reuters: Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which now owns a 14.64 percent stake in The New York Times Co., cut its [...]

FishBowlDC: Check Out NBC's Man Cave...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:22 -0500

It's been a busy week for NBC's Chuck Todd, traveling halfway across the world with President Obama. Good thing he has this man cave back at the bureau to retreat to...

Check out some politics and football with Chuck, First Read's Domenico Montanaro and Andy Gross [...]

Talking Biz News: Bloomberg contacting ad shops

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:49:36 -0500

Lucia Moses and Andrew McMains of Adweek report Friday that Bloomberg LP has been getting in touch with advertising agencies to help it with a wide-scale branding campaign.

Moses and McMains report, “In a request for information that several big, global ad agencies received, Bloomberg said it [...]

CJR : The Audit: Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:59 -0500

Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was splashed on C1 of The Wall Street Journal and A1 of The New York Times, which wrote that "the bank said Tuesday that it would spend $500 million ? [...]

Talking Biz News: The future BusinessWeek will look like?.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:42 -0500

Former BusinessWeek staff member Gary Weiss blogs Friday about what the magazine will look like once its sale to Bloomberg is complete, in the wake of the layoffs at the publication in the last two days.

Weiss writes, “It’s not even clear to what extent the [...]

CJR : The Audit: Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:31:44 -0500

Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve officials are stepping up scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices, according to people with knowledge of the [...]

News Bites - Chicago Reader: Still More on the Mezuzah

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:29:55 -0500

Only hard-core courts buffs are sticking with me on this, my third post on the subject of the Seventh Circuit's en banc mezuzah ruling. But if you're hanging in, I recommend the oral arguments.

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Romenesko: Poynter's Times Publishing Co. sells Governing magazine to company big on Scientology

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:06 -0500

St. Petersburg Times | The Hollywood Reporter
e.Republic was chosen from among six bidders for the magazine. Several of the principals of the California media company are members of the Church of Scientology, and the St. Petersburg Times has been running stories critical of the church. "It's a business [...]

FishBowlNY: Following Layoffs, AP Expands News Editor, Photo Editor Roles

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:00 -0500

After cutting 90 people from its news department this week, shuttering four bureaus, the Associated Press today announced that it had expanded the roles of six news editors and appointed four interim regional photo editors "as part of a restructuring of [...]

Pressing Issues: Cartman As Tea-Bagger?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:08:00 -0500

Following up his hit impression of a junior Glenn Beck, Cartman returns with a lament that his America is gone--there are too many "minorities at my water park." And "even the authorities are minorities."
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NewsBusters.org: Americans Want to Live Longer? How Gauche, Sniffs the New York Times

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:10 -0500

Friday?s front-page ?news analysis? by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, ?Culture Clash in Medicine,? dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and cervical cancer. The recommendations have caused some outcry as a possible prelude to Obama-care rationing, concerns Sack [...]

Slate Magazine - Press Box: Stupid drug story of the week: NBC's Today show discovers huffing.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:37 -0500

In the annals of stupid drug reporting, a special commendation must be reserved for NBC's Today show, which on Nov. 19 aired (video) one the stupidest drug stories in broadcast news. The program, which specializes in terrorizing mothers with sensationalist stories, discovered that today's kids are "huffing" inhalants from hair [...]

FishBowlLA: LA Weekly Gets Defensive About Neon Tommy Report

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:48:59 -0500

Earlier this week, the USC student-run online publication Neon Tommy published a profile of LA Weekly editor Drex Heikes. The story was not unflattering, and I was impressed by Heikes' candor about many of the issues facing the paper. He openly acknowledged how grim things had become:

"Sometime in [...]

FishBowlDC: Sunday Show Ratings: "MTP" Holds First

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:48:33 -0500

NBC's "Meet the Press" held on to its first place crown in total viewers and the A25-54 demo last Sunday. ABC's "This Week" was second in total viewers while CBS' "Face the Nation" took the #2 spot in demo (age 25-54).

Total Viewers for November 15th

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 3,110,000 [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Palin Booed By Book Tour Crowd

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:10 -0500

Unhappy fans of Sarah Palin went rogue on the Alaska Republican during her book tour stop in Noblesville, Indiana on Thursday.

The local Borders outlet had handed out 1,000 wristbands to book purchasers; the wristbands were supposed to procure fans Palin's signature on their hardback copies of "Going Rogue." But [...]

CJR : The Kicker: Greg Craig and Transparency

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:50 -0500

Time?s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There?s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the [...]

FishBowlNY: New York Times Launches Local Chicago Edition Today

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:00 -0500

Today saw the premiere issue of the much-discussed Chicago edition of The New York Times. The Times has been encroaching on regional news since it started Bay Area coverage last month, and the launch in Chicago is further indication that Arthur Sulzberger and [...]

NewsBusters.org: Bloviating Dick Cavett Bashes ?Know-Nothing? Sarah Palin, Obsesses Over His Brilliance

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:20 -0500

Talk show host Dick Cavett, whose TV show went off the air in 1982, appeared on MSNBC, Friday, to trash Sarah Palin as a "know nothing" and someone who has "no first language." Mostly, however, he seemed interested only in talking about himself, prompting News Live host Norah O?Donnell to [...]

NewsBusters.org: Foreign Policy magazine: Ft. Hood Happened Because Muslims Aren?t 'Comfortable'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:59 -0500

On Nov. 18, Foreign Policy's Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson wrote an article titled "The Real Shock of Fort Hood." If you thought that the shock of Fort Hood was that an Army Major fired over 100 rounds into a crowded processing center on a military base [...]

FishBowlLA: Mediabistro Blog-Family Roundup

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16:27 -0500

Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel in Playboy - GalleyCat

AP reaches payroll cut goal - MediaJobsDaily

Brian Williams receives Cronkite Award - TVNewser

AOL still hiring journalists as it cuts staff - FishbowlNY

Biz Stone on paywalls: Can't [...]

FishBowlDC: BBC Hosts CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Reception

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16:02 -0500

Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director; Ronnate Tissainayagam, wife of imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam; Naziha Rejiba, Kalima, Tunisia; Mustafa Haji Abinur, Agence France-Presse, Somalia; Matt Frei, Anchor BBC World News America; Rome Hartman, Executive Producer BBC [...]

Romenesko: Publisher apologizes for screaming at college football coach for not playing his son enough

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:50 -0500

Times West Virginian
Times West Virginian publisher Andrew Kniceley (left) used his newspaper to apologize for yelling at a football coach because his son played only three plays in a game. "I regret any embarrassment or discomfort that I have caused FSU [Fairmont State University], my newspaper [...]

NewsBusters.org: CNN.com Doesn't Explicitly Mention Party of Senator Burris (D)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:13:22 -0500

An unsigned CNN.com article on Friday noted that the Senate Ethics Committee had reproved Senator Roland Burris ?for actions and statements reflecting unfavorably upon the Senate,? but did not directly mention the Illinois senator?s affiliation with the Democratic [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Robert David Jaffee: The Insanity of the Insanity Defense

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:18 -0500

At the end of the Charles Bronson film, 10 to Midnight, a serial killer, who has just been apprehended, reverts to a variation of the same plea uttered by Andy Robinson's psychopath in Dirty Harry and Leo Gorcey's punk in Dead End: "society made me do it."

Like Clint Eastwood [...]

FishBowlNY: AOL Still Hiring Journos As It Cuts Staff

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:00 -0500

Yesterday AOL revealed that it was looking to cut one-third of its staff as it heads towards its spin off from parent company Time Warner and looks to trim $300 million from its annual operating costs.

But, as our sister blog WebNewser [...]

Romenesko: What alternative media need to do to survive

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:49 -0500

The Kojo Nnamdi
Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff; Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple. [...]

Media Matters for America: Right-wing media put Obama on the couch for inch-deep analysis

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:43 -0500

Right-wing media figures, including Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden, have in recent days attacked President Obama while discussing his mental state. While claiming, "I'm not asking you to psychoanalyze the president," Beck asked psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Keith Ablow, "Are we crazy for saying [...]

NewsBusters.org: Company Mocks Catholicism to Sell Video Game

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:39 -0500

As if we needed more proof that Christians are the only group left in America that it?s safe to make fun of. A popular YouTube video purports to be an ad for a Wii-like game system called ?Mass: We Pray,? which will be available at Easter 2010. In reality, [...]

FishBowlLA: Ellen Reacts To Oprah's Announcement

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:44:05 -0500

Ellen Degeneres reacts to the news of the end of the Oprah show.

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FishBowlNY: Amidst Shakeups, ForbesLife Promotes New Editor

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:42:00 -0500

Despite recent layoffs, Forbes Media is still moving forward.

ForbesLife, the bimonthly Forbes' spin-off focused on culture and lifestyle, has put Lorraine Cademartori at the helm of the publication in the role of executive editor. She has spent the previous [...]

NewsBusters.org: Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:10 -0500

E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages.

Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's "Hockey [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Rahm Emanuel 'Bedeviling' News Organizations With His Name

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:29 -0500

NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose very name is like a dead fish mailed to everyone's style guide:

...when he's quoted or mentioned on radio, TV, or print, reporters and anchors [...]

Romenesko: Brill's Journalism Online pitch has changed over time

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:25:12 -0500

Nieman Journalism Lab | Poynter Online
One of the tweaks that Zachary Seward has noticed: Steve Brill used to use the term "wall" to describe subscription content, but he's now abandoned that language. "We're not putting up any kind of a paywall," he's been saying. || Earlier Brill interview [...]

FishBowlDC: NJ's Jessica Taylor to Politico "2010"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:04 -0500

Jessica Taylor is leaving National Journal for a gig as assistant web editor for a new site at Politico called "2010," which will focus on the midterm elections.

See the memo from Jackie Koszczuk that announces Taylor's departure after the jump.

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The [...]

Media Matters for America: Morning Joe repeatedly airs Lieberman's false claim on public option

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:02 -0500

On November 20, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically repeated Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) claim that "if you look at the campaign last year, the presidential, you can't find a mention of public option. It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider [...]

Media on HuffingtonPost.com: Oprah's Replacement: Who Should Be The Next King/Queen Of Daytime TV? (POLL)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:44 -0500

Oprah's announcement that she will give up her syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 years on the air leaves an enormous hole: who will be the next king or queen of daytime TV?

Below are some of the names that immediately come to mind as potential heirs to Oprah's [...]

NewsBusters.org: WaPo Buries Faulty GAO Data Story on Page A22; No Mention of Fake Congressional Districts

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:19 -0500

In what could easily be labeled the understatement of the week and probably of the entire month of November, the Washington Post today headlined a page A22 story today "GAO warns stimulus jobs data could contain inaccuracies."

The print story is accompanied by a screenshot of Recovery.gov, which the caption [...]

Deadline Hollywood Daily: Anna Kendrick Exits APA For CAA

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:23 -0500

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Yes, she's in the Twilight movies. But right now she's best known within the Industry as the actress who steals the probable Oscar nominated Up In The Air. This is the time of year when the major agencies hunt for awards-touted talent. [...]