Foxnews.com averages around 12 million or 13 million monthly unique users, according to Nielsen Online, rarely approaching the 35 million to 40 million uniques that leaders Yahoo News, MSNBC and CNN regularly deliver in aggregate. Some of that disparity can be explained away, as both Yahoo and MSNBC draw heavy traffic from their portal counterparts, [...]
A newly released study (.pdf) from students at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America’s four largest newspapers over the past 100 years, and [...]
Fox News is the *only* media outlet that has ever gone to court to win the right to fabricate stories and broadcast them as news. The attorneys for Fox argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.” And they won. Learn about the alleged deception [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
About 40% of freelancers had trouble getting paid in 2009, according to a survey released in mid-April by the New York-based Freelancers Union, a 135,000-member organization for independent contractors across the country in fields such as media, technology, and advertising. It was the first year the group asked the question on its member survey. And [...]
The Front Page days when reporters put press passes in fedora headbands and thrived without college degrees are gone and buried under mountains of HTML code. Although I can fill several hours with stories about clueless reporters I have known through the years, nowadays most mainstream journalists aren’t blank-slate, blue-law ignorant of the subjects they [...]
Much of the attention on WikiLeaks has focused on its mysterious mastermind, Australian hacktivist Julian Assange. He’s been hailed as a fearless fighter for transparency, but his emergence from the shadows has also revealed him to be as prickly about unwanted disclosures as any of his powerful targets. When David Kushner wrote about Assange’s fascinating blend of [...]
Two months ago, U.S. Special Operations forces led an assault on what they claimed to be a militant hideout in Paktiya Province, Afghanistan. Three civilian women were killed in the raid, two of them pregnant, along with two civilian men. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force admitted later that the two men were non-combatants. As for [...]
According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion. However, despite this, only 20% of bloggers obtain the majority of their income from their blogs; which is a [...]
Max Chafkin, a senior writer for Inc. magazine, couched the idea as a sort of joke: for his article on virtual offices, perhaps the entire magazine staff should work remotely while making the issue? “I thought it would involve so much change that it wouldn’t be feasible,” Mr. Chafkin said. Then Jane Berentson, Inc.’s editor, [...]
Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world. “It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, which is known as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [...]
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Also tagged Althingi, Anonymity, Courts, Daniel Schmitt, FOIA, Freedom of Expression, Gag Orders, Iceland, Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, IMMI, Julian Assange, Legislation, Libel Laws, UK, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9BW6_4bl8[/youtube] The inimitable Doug Stanhope vehemently disparaging the worth of punters commenting on the news, and the news’ tendency to broadcast the opinions of viewers alongside those of people who think they matter.
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Afghanistan www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care reform On last night’s ‘Colbert Report,’ host Stephen Colbert chastised the media for ignoring the war in Afghanistan, satirically pointing out that the media was more concerned about Eric Massa’s sex life than the [...]
Under UTS’ Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) head Wendy Bacon (a Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist herself…) more than 40 students have got up close and personal with the sticky end of the spin cycle. They’ve had to analyse, critique, question and then pick up the phone to ask the hard questions of the media [...]
Sean Penn has defended Hugo Chávez as a model democrat and said those who call him a dictator should be jailed. The Oscar-winning actor and political activist accused the US media of smearing Venezuela’s socialist president and called for journalists to be punished. “Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we [...]
Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rulebook that served this [...]
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Also tagged Corporatism, Fox News, Howell Raines, Journalists, Judy Miller, Media, MSM, Neural Marketing, Propaganda, Roger Ailes
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Iran’s police chief on Saturday accused the Voice of America and the BBC of being the arms of U.S. and British intelligence agencies, and warned of severe repercussions for journalists and activists caught having contacts with them, state media reported. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, whose police forces have played a key role in the government [...]
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Also tagged BBC, CIA, Espionage, Freedom of Press, Intelligence, Iran, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Media, MI6, Propaganda, Voice of America
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The American public has not been informed by the US news media about highly newsworthy statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday February 12. He said the era of nuclear weapons is over, suggesting Iran has no plans to build “inhumane” A-bombs. Ahmadinejad called for a world free of nuclear arms in an interview [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
And yet here’s the strange thing: thanks to what didn’t happen on Flight 253, the media essentially went mad, 24/7. Newspaper coverage of the failed plot and its ramifications actually grew for two full weeks after the incident until it had achieved something like full-spectrum dominance, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
You can have any opinion you want about waterboarding, but it is a fact that it is defined as “torture” under the relevant international treaties and federal law. That is a fact. In short, it is not “torture” to critics, it is “torture” under the law. And there is no dispute that the Bush Administration [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
In a single hour, two men with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence points to the latter. In 2003 The Nation exposed McCaffrey’s financial ties to military contractors he had promoted on-air on several cable networks; in 2008 David Barstow [...]
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Also tagged AIG, CNBC, CNN, Conflict of Interest, Corporatism, Disclosure, Ethics, Executive Compensation, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Lobbyists, Media, MSNBC, PR, Television
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Two young entrepreneurs have launched an online community where college journalists are sharing ideas on technology, leadership, news judgment and content. Kelsey A. Schnell and Brandon Martinez built CollegeNewsroom.org in Big Rapids, Mich., the home of Ferris State University. via Poynter Online – Ask the Recruiter.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The point is that newspapers have been killing themselves slowly for a long time. So long as the monopoly profits rolled in, the death by a thousand cuts wasn’t paid any attention. When the Internet arrived to eliminate the advertising monopolies, the newspapers already had a foot in the grave. That said, it wouldn’t hurt [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Bay Area News Project’s CEO Lisa Frazier has a $400,000 salary, which reminds me of the news and criticisms about Paul Steiger getting $570,000 to run ProPublica. This begs the question: how much is too much in the pay of top execs at nonprofit journalism startups. [...] “They can spin it any way they want, [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
What are some of the current assignments on Seed ready to redefine journalism? I signed up for Seed to take a look around. The first thing I saw is that Aol seems to want someone to write a lot of gift guides (for weddings, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, kids, grandparents, teachers, and groomsmen). Then I [...]
As the Senate works to craft a shield law, one crucial issue is determining who is a journalist. In other words, whose promises of confidentiality deserve protection? For me, it’s always instructive to go back to the founders when addressing questions like these. Who did they have in mind when they drafted a 1st Amendment [...]
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Also tagged Bloggers, Citizen Journalists, Confidentiality, Corruption, Freedom of Press, Journalists, Media, Reporters, Senate, Shield Law, Ted Kaufman, Whistleblowers
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