Archive for April, 2008
Recent Articles
- If you haven’t been there already
- This week in Der Spiegel
- Ira Glass: “Newspapers and network news deserve to die”
- Band of Doctors
- Starbucks Faces Problems in New York City
- Changing Media Landscape - Discussion at the J-School
- New Media, New Opportunities
- Bike Share in New York City
- Life in a Radio Bubble - Recap of Election Night Coverage
- Rachel Sklar will do twitter interview after leaving Huffington Post
Featured Articles
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Phil Rosenthal, writer of the Chicago Tribune asks: “Now that people get what they want the way they want on the Internet, where does that leave those mainstream media outlets that, in traditional fashion, pair the news people want with the news it is thought they need?” Charles Gibson, anchor of ABC World News Tonight, has [...]
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The “U.S. vs. Libby” lawsuit did not only put an administration and its actions in the wake of the Iraq war on trial, but featured many stars of the political media landscape on the witness stand. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former top aide to Vice-President Dick Cheney was on trial for purgery and obstruction to federal [...]
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An attentive observer could come to the conclusion that the conflict in Iraq was solved a long time ago, the next elections would still be years away and all political issues resolved. At least one will get this impression when tuning in to either MSNBC or FOX News these days. While President Bush is announcing his [...]
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In 2006, the Tyndall Report notices a bigger coverage of the Iraq war in the American media than in 2005. Hurricane Katrina also is still among the leaders in the battle for airtime minutes. For 20 years, the report of Andrew Tyndall measures each evening which topics get the most coverage among the three leading evening [...]
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Each Sunday, Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, interviews the most influential politicians and most important press members in his Sunday talk show and it should come to no surprise that there is only one topic since the mid-term elections: Iraq. In a recent episode, Russert talked to two columnists of The New York [...]
Twitter Updates
WSJ under Murdoch? Less of Wall Street.
When Rupert Murdoch took over Dow Jones and its premier outlet, The Wall Street Journal, many people were wondering how much of an impact his presence would have. The Project for Excellence in Journalism asked the same question and looked at the front page of the paper before, and after Murdoch’s arrival.
The findings are simply explained: More politics and more foreign news for less business. The latter declined from 30% of all front page stories to only 14%. The 2008 election and politics in general now make up 18%, compared to 4% in the four months before the takeover.
It will be interesting to see how this will continue after the election season, when there is less daily news about candidates, controversies and horse race- or donation numbers. Murdoch always wanted to challenge The New York Times, but PEJ analysis shows, that WSJ is still much more a business and financial paper compared to the Paper of Record.
The Journal still has almost twice as much economic news on Page 1, and more than four times the amount of business news than its inner-city counterpart. (More of the study here…)
Penn’s missed microtrends
The master of microtrends, Mark Penn, could be criticized for missing the bigger picture in a change election. Peter Feld of Portfolio argues that he even missed several trends and points them out in this essential reading.
KingCam has really changed
Today, while cleaning up my DVR system, I stumbled upon my favorite segments I collected over the years. One of them is this latest John Stewart interview on “Larry King Live”. I could honestly laugh at this clip every single time, even when I watch it three times in a row. It shows how clever Stewart is, realizing that he can throw off Larry King anytime he wants to. He clearly succeeds in the end…
I edited the show in between, so don’t be surprised.
Wildcard North Carolina
Susann Page of USA Today writes: “The end could be near. Or the endgame, at least, of a surprisingly drawn-out Democratic presidential contest. Four months and 42 states after the opening Iowa caucuses, the primary in North Carolina on May 6 now looms as a pivotal final showdown between Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
Voters in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette looks at different voters prior to state’s election. Primarily focusing on the ‘white male’ they find a lot of examples: “John Ellwood, 38, of East McKeesport, is a petroleum company lab tech. A Republican, he doesn’t like either of the Democrats in the race, saying he questions the patriotism of Mr. Obama’s wife, but also ‘can’t see a woman running the country at this point,’ since men hold so many other powerful positions.”
Diversity in Race is reflected on TV
The New York Times observes how the diversity in the presidential race is reflected in the studios of CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
Like the Candidates, TV’s Political Pundits Show Signs of Diversity
Mad Money
Who do we turn to in an economic slump? The financial channels like CNBC and FOX Business - or John Stewart and the Daily Show.
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