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The media stopped following the money: CONFLICT of INTEREST
2008-06-21 11:09:00 Was it big oil money pouring into the "McCain Victory '08 Fund," as the sudden change in McCain?s stand on drilling in environmentally sensitive areas suggests? How will we ever know? There?s no benefit to a commercial news outlet in uncovering the source of the RNC PAC/527 money...It got interesting in April, but almost nobody reported it...Once Senator John McCain and the RNC began circumventing the McCain/Feingold limits via the creation of the "McCain Victory '08 Fund" with its $70,000 per individual donations they really left presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama with no reason to keep extending his offer to limit campaign spending by accepting public financing. They sprang into faux outrage, of course, ready to accuse him of a flip-flop despite the fact they'd not accepted Obama's conditional offer. Follow the money, not the spin, and you discover that this has gone virtually unreported. The commercial media outlets have a conflict of interest; reporting ...
Shameless Plug: The TV Addict in the Media
2008-06-01 16:07:00 Since in never ceases to thrill us when theTVaddict.com gets mistaken for a ‘legitimate media outlet,’ this TV Addict wanted to take a moment to shamelessly promote the fact that this-little-website-that-could- was featured in yesterday’s Hamilton Spectator. Click here to check out Brent Lawson’s fantastic article titled “TV ME: Everyone Gets to Pick Their Favorites.” Or here to download the PDF.
By: the TV addict
The Media is Shocked!
2008-05-29 06:25:00 We’ve all heard of selective amnesia, and now, in the wake of the backlash over Scott McClellan’s new book, we are getting a first-hand look at mass, elective amnesia from the traditional media. Here are a few random reactions to the “revelation” in McClellan’s book that the Bush White House relied on propaganda to sell ...
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can D
2008-05-28 13:00:00 Playing dress-up is a normal part of growing up for little girls, and has been for a very long time. But, “A lot of very sexual products are being marketed to very young kids,” said Gigi Durham, a professor at the University of Iowa, discussing how she became quite disturbed last Halloween when a 5-year-old ...
52. Know How to Tell Your Story in the Media
2008-05-24 10:15:00 Publicity is by far one of the most effective marketing tools at your disposal, but how do you promote yourself to the media so that they will give your growing business the spotlight it needs? Storytelling. That's right, because ultimately, business stories are human interest stories and every reporter is looking for a good story. In fact the press refers to the articles they write as stories. Here are 4 things you need to give the press to help them tell your story: 1. Personality. "A company is faceless without the people who run it," says Joanne Cleaver, a business writer whose work has appeared in Home Office Computing and Dividends Magazine. "In any story, you want the personality of the people to come through. You want to get a sense of who they are." 2. Facts & Figures. Reporters love facts and figures; they anchor a story in reali...
The Media: Why We Don?t Trust Them
2008-05-23 15:00:00 People joke about the fact that lawyer?s ?briefs? are so long. It is a good joke, but it misses the whole point of a true legal brief, which is to consolidate vast amounts of information culled from disparate sources into a single, coherent, lucid document. It?s very difficult to do this well. Of course, ...
By: Webloggin
How The Media Screwed Up Spygate
2008-05-21 06:00:00 Our friend Bruce Allen of the Boston Sports Media Watch has a good recap about how the press handled the information from Spygate and the opinions they formed on it, not only immediately but over time. He calls it the “most disgraceful episode in recent sports media history“. Allen goes on to point out that ...
By: Random Thoughts
Why does the media love Apple and trash Dell?
2008-05-20 00:54:00 I’m not a big fan of surveys, so I don’t quote them often. But a recent Consumer Reports survey about PC manufacturers listed Apple as No. 1 in tech support, with Lenovo second, Dell third, and HP dead last. I should also say that Dell came in second in desktops. I thought the headline should be ...
Why does the media love Apple and trash Dell?
2008-05-17 02:59:00 I’m not a big fan of surveys, so I don’t quote them often. But a recent Consumer Reports survey about PC manufacturers listed Apple as No. 1 in tech support, with Lenovo second, Dell third, and HP dead last. I should also say that Dell came in second in desktops. I thought the headline should be ...
Blogs Drive the Media to Cover Environmental Justice
2008-05-15 16:11:00 Is it just me, or are the blogs helping to drive the agenda when it comes to front-page news? A couple of months ago, we posted about the environmental justice movement in Rhode Island. Alex Moore has posted extensively about it at Rhode Island’s Future. Now it’s front-page news at the Projo. I ...
By: Kmareka.com
[Cool] The media doing their job and reporting that the GOP loss in Mississ
2008-05-14 23:05:00 MSNBC
The Food Crisis, Bush and The Media Spin Against India
2008-05-14 05:47:00 I’ve had it up to here with the MSM, especially the NYTimes and it’s clone, the International Herald Tribune. Today’s IHT has an article on how reporters in India were aghast that Bush “Blamed” the rice shortage on Indians eating too much. But of course, he never said such a thing, and shame to the IHT ...
Why does the media love Apple and trash Dell?
2008-05-14 01:02:00 I’m not a big fan of surveys, so I don’t quote them often. But a recent Consumer Reports survey about PC manufacturers listed Apple as No. 1 in tech support, with Lenovo second, Dell third, and HP dead last. I should also say that Dell came in second in desktops. I thought the headline should be ...
Why does the media love Apple and trash Dell?
2008-05-13 18:00:00 The media loves Apple, trashes Dell, and gives HP a pass? Perception supposedly is reality, but just whose perception is it? Source:Why does the media love Apple and trash Dell? Tags: Tech News, technology
By: My Tech World
Is the Media Trying to Help Obama Beat McCain?It sure looks like it
2008-05-13 01:00:00 Yesterday, in his comment to my post on Disgruntled, Divided Democrats, American Elephant wrote: the media is going to cover [Obama's liberal voting record and inexperience] up . . . while attacking McCain, and distorting his record. That means all Americans will see of Obama is an attractive, personable candidate with a deep, resonating speaking ...
By: GayPatriot
Can You Trust The Media? reviewed
2008-05-10 09:53:00 Please forgive the shameless self-promotion but Can You Trust The Media? picked up a review at the Guardian. Phone-in voting scams, dodgy trailer editing, silly-season reports of great white sharks cruising off English beaches - the media apparently has a problem with trust. How to win it back? Wrong question, says Adrian Monck: trust is something that ...
NY-13: Constituents don?t want Fossella to resign?but the media do
2008-05-10 03:02:00 On the heels of the fascinating drunken Vito Fossella love-child scandal (if you can come up with a pithy little term for this scandal, please do, we sure could use one), SurveyUSA has polled NY-13, and finds that voters, by and large, think Fossella should not resign. Voters are mixed on whether he should run ...
Video: Cutler Addressing the Media on His Diabetes
2008-05-09 18:33:00 The above video is the entire press conference where Jay Cutler addresses the sports media on his disease and how he will continue to fight it. It goes along with the earlier post in addressing how Jay realized he had Type 1. This video is courtesy of diabeteshealth.com
By: BroncoTalk
Saint Louis & St Charles area Home Buyers are being misled by the Media abo
2008-05-08 00:00:00 Saint Louis and St Charles MO area home buyers and home owners are right smack in the middle of what just might be the biggest media perpetrated disservice on potential home buyers. If you are like many Saint Louis or...
Brontës in the media
2008-05-03 10:03:00 Alan Bentley, Brontë Parsonage Museum director, sent us the following: Ann Dinsdale appeared on the BBC prime time magazine show “The One Show” last night with some objects from the Parsonage collections including two of the little books. The appearance was part of a piece on Jane Eyre and Hathersage http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow-/article/2008/04/gb_placeinaboo-k.shtml it is quite a nice short film not including Ann’s live appearance but I think that is available through the BBC Iplayer for the next 7 Days. I will also be on the BBC radio Leeds breakfast show on Monday morning at about 8.30.From the show's website: In 1845, Charlotte Bronte went to stay with a friend in Hathersage in the Peak District. It was there that she was inspired to write the passionate story of Jane Eyre; the strong and sensitive governess who falls in love with the dark and brooding Mr Rochester.Gyles visits the George Inn, where Charlotte wrote of Jane Eyre, sitting nervously waiting to meet her ne...
By: BronteBlog
Cleveland Man Incensed Over Catholicism Targeted In The Media
2008-05-03 00:42:00 Sam Miller, prominent Cleveland businessman - Jewish, not Catholic - is fighting mad about the seemingly concentrated effort by the media to disparage the Catholic Church in the United States. The following are excerpts of a speech by well-known Cleveland businessman Mr. Miller at the City Club of Cleveland, given on Thursday, March 6. Even though of the Jewish faith, Miller has been a staunch supporter of the Cleveland Diocese and Bishop Anthony Pilla. It was published in the May-June issue of the Buckeye Bulletin.
The media can shape the economic mood
2008-05-02 00:53:00 The way people perceive the news is often determined by how the news is reported. A perfect example of this was presented to me today as I was perusing the media outlets at my fingertips here on the Internet. First I went to Breitbart.com and read one story about how the economy is bruised and battered, and "growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and
By: freadom nation
Gloria Allred and Rob Lowe?s Ex-Nanny Laura Boyce Speak to the Media [Updat
2008-05-01 20:41:00 Ok, did any of you happen to catch the live footage I posted here earlier? That nanny sure did cry a lot. Geeze, I would think you would be more pissed than anything. If you missed it, Gloria Allred did most of the talking as Laura was seemingly too upset. She came out crying and left ...
By: Celebrity Smack!
Two Recent Success in WOT You Didn?t Hear About in the Media
2008-05-01 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Taliban suffered a big loss in Pakistan/Afghanistan this month and so did al Qaeda in Iraq, but the MSM has been practically silent on these great successes. It only goes to show that the media is so completely sold on the claim that the war is ...
By: Publius Forum
Jake Long: Miami Dolphins 1st Round Pick Meets The Media
2008-04-29 20:19:00 I'm still uploading videos from the NFL Draft. For more, visit my YouTube channel Zennie62 and our NFL Draft blog. Here we see Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long get selected "number one" by the Miami Dolphins, then meet the media in the Interview Room downstairs. This is more of a kind of behind the scenes video for those who've never seen the process with the media. I also included his Mom holding up his Dolphins "Number One" jersey.
1st Round NFL Draft Pick Mr. Aqib Talib introduced to the Media
2008-04-29 02:52:00 1st Round NFL Draft Pick and "NEW" Tampa Bay Buccaneer CB Aqib Talib was introduced to the Media today.. Be sure to listen to the audio below. The guy LOVES football, many NFL players do, but if you take anything away from Talib's press conference, its that he has a passion for this sport. Talib on the meaning of his first name: "It's a Muslim name," Talib said. "I know my first name means, 'the last to come.' I'm the youngest of four kids so my first name means the last to come. My last name means ... I don't know."Gruden on the meaning of Talib's last name: "His name means 'good corner,' I hope," Gruden said.Talib on the impact of winning MVP of his team's Bowl Game: "I didn't even realize I had won a trophy.. I woke up the next morning and they told me I had won a trophy. I was just excited to win that game"Aqib on the being Drafted by the Buccaneers: "It's just wonderful," Talib said. "It's a dream come true for me. It's an honor to be able to start my NFL caree...
By: Buc'Em
Five Live Videos from New Jersey in the Media Library!
2008-04-25 00:00:00 Forum: Avril Lavigne News and Updates Posted By: staticrebelle Post Time: 04-24-2008 at 11:15 AM
Me, The Message, or the Media?
2008-04-24 20:40:00 The questions: If the medium affects the message, how will the Christian message be affected by the new media? Christians have a duty to critically evaluate the effect of our media choices on our message. Do our choices of media forms allow the message to remain Christian? Or are the tools with which we communicate at odds ...
By: TrueGrit
The democratic party controls the media
2008-04-23 16:54:00 While conservatives keep chanting that the media is bias, many liberals continue to chant that conservatives are full of crap; that the media is not bias whatsoever. Better yet, liberals chant that liberals do not control the media. However evidence going all the way back to 1964 says they do. According to a survey done at George Washington University in 1981 of 240 journalist on their
By: freadom nation
GASP! The Pentagon “used” the media! [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 20:23:00 Having just finished George Creel’s 1920 book, How We Advertised America: The First Telling Of The Amazing Story Of The Committee On Public Information That Carried The Gospel Of Americanism To Every Corner Of The Globe, the idea that the Pentagon would
Jimmy Carter blows peanut smoke up the media
2008-04-21 16:56:00 Ex and disgraced President Jimmy Carter is reported to have said that Hamas, a terrorist organization, would accept the right of the State of Israel to exists, if a peace acgreement were negotiated and approved. JERUSALEM (CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Hamas is prepared to accept peace with Israel if the Palestinians approve any agreement negotiated with Israel Carter’s comments came after controversial meetings Friday and Saturday in Damascus, Syria, with exiled militant Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal Granted what Carter said was interesting and would be newsworhty if it were but true.  However Carter is a dupe  There is little likelyhood that Hamas said anything close to what Carter has attributed to them.  In fact, Hamas has alaeady refuted what Carter said, Karin Laub, Associated Press Carter said Hamas officials, including Mashaal, agreed to this in a written statement. “Let me read exactly what they accepted verbatim. This is th...
By: BitsBlog
The Media and the Iraq War
2008-04-20 22:48:00 George Bush got away with one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of all times, often based upon deception, partially due to inadequate scrutiny by the news media. The New York Times has a must-read article on how the Bush administration used military experts, posing as an unbiased source despite often having a conflict of ...
By: Liberal Values
Yeezy?s All In The Media? {Quick Kanye West Round Up}
2008-04-20 03:41:00 Eskay just posted the artwork for Yeezy?s newest single “Homecoming ft. Chris Martin“… Kanye’s Nike Air Yeezy’s have just been unveiled, and guess what? They glow in the dark… Well the first images from the “Glow In The Dark” tour are starting to roll in, two words — visual feast. And if anyone wants to donate some ...
By: Nerd with Swag
?Free Ride: John McCain and the Media?
2008-04-19 03:57:00 David Brock and Paul Waldman from Media Matters Action Network wrote a new book entitled “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media.” Before I discuss the book, however, I need to make a confession: I used to like McCain. I bought into the media persona of ‘McCain the Maverick.’ I’ve done a ton of reading ...
What Should The Media Do Now?
2008-04-17 07:42:00 by Dr. Haider Mehdi In the words of a social critic and a renowned journalist, it is imperative to have properly functioning media “to keep our leaders honest and to arm the powerless with the information they need to protect themselves against the tyranny of the powerful, whether that tyranny is political or commercial.” The vital question at the moment is: What should the media do now, when a democratic process has been initiated in Pakistan thanks to a vibrant civil society and the lawyers’ movement? Should it struggle for the battle of hearts and minds of Pakistani people in promoting a democratic culture and help in the founding of truly democratic political and national institutions in the country? The other important and interlinked questions are: How should such a thing be done? How can such a lofty political enterprise be accomplished? How do you win people’s hearts and minds? How do you counteract the ongoing tyranny of the powerful, invisible and yet pres...
SRK interacts with the media and fans about Kolkata Knight Riders
2008-04-16 04:05:00 Shah Rukh Khan interacts with the press and his fans about his IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders
This lady in Dublin believed the realtors, believed the media, and believed
2008-04-14 14:49:00 So many lied in order to earn a commission.So many believed, for so many reasons.The commissions - they got pocketed, with the realtors and mortgage brokers making out like bandits.The buyers? Well, quite frankly, they got f*cked. Should have listened to HP.Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around GlobeDUBLIN ? The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.In Ireland, Spain, Britain and elsewhere, housing markets that soared over the last decade are falling back to earth. Property analysts predict that some countries, like this one, will face an even more wrenching adjustment than that of the United States, including the possibility that the downturn could become a wholesale collapse.
By: Housing PANIC
Alicia Keys Riles Up The Media
2008-04-14 12:00:00 I don’t know if I can consider Alicia Keys militant just yet, but a few of her conspiracy theories are causing quite a stir online. In a recent interview with Blender Magazine, Alicia states that ?Gangsta rap? was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. She also believes the bicoastal feud between ...
By: Necole Bitchie
NO dISC Always Returned No Matter The Media.
2008-04-14 06:42:00 I Have Opened The Unit, And Cleaned The Laser. Mounting Spring Is Still Functional, Everything Moves Fluidly. Slide Rails Are Well Lubricated, There Is No Traction Resistance Through The Motions. All Ribbon Cables Are Connected Properly, Both...
By: Fixya.com
2010, the media and more bicycle accidents
2008-04-11 09:17:00 George Bernard Shaw once said that newspapers are "unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization". South Africa would do well to consider this whenever its ability to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup is called into question.
Rathergate Continues In Court And The Media Today
2008-04-10 23:44:00 Legal counsel for Dan Rather and CBS Corp. met again in court today. Last month, Manhattan Judge Ira Gammerman re-affirmed that Rather's $70 million lawsuit against the network giant would not be dismissed; today, Judge Gammerman again ruled the suit may progress, although presented what may be a minor setback for the plaintiff's counsel: motions to dismiss some of the complaints in the suit were granted, including the portions of the suit that name Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, CBS President Leslie Moonves, and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward.
Can You Trust The Media? - Mistakes and corrections
2008-04-10 20:10:00 The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has - alas - been on the backburner (too busy).So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].The newscaster – who doubled up as host of What’s My Line – was obliged to present the day’s stories while holding a lit cigarette.The newscaster who hosted Camel News Caravan, John Cameron Swayze, was a also a panellist on NBC’s quiz show “Who Said That?” and NOT host of CBS’s “What’s My Line?” - that was John Charles Daly Jr. who doubled as a newscaster and executive at ABC.BTW, on the day UK regulator Ofcom announced its review of public service broadcasting it’s worth recalling what Daly told Time when he got the boot from ABC in 1960: “By the old standards by which I was brought up, most of what passes for public-service programming today is nothing of the sort; I don’t know how they get away with it.”
The media coverage of yesterday ; the Masquarde is over
2008-04-07 20:57:00 I swear that we are still living in the 1960s and there is no big difference between the Nasserite era and this nameless era ,the current regime is keeping and reviving with honour the dishonoured heritage of their Nasserite ancestors from controlling the media and twisting the truth. Yesterday the only people who were honest enough took to deliver the truth of what had happened on that day were the bloggers , the foreign correspondents and very very few journalists I think they could be counted on hands. The regime used its powers to scare all journalists in most of the newspapers whether official or not official that they did not write a single word of truth yesterday. I read today most of the Egyptian daily newspapers and I was shocked and sad ,some of these newspapers are famous ,some of them published by parties and some of them is thought to believed liberal in one day Here is a quick sample : Al Wafd newspaper published by Al Wafd party which did not ...
The Media Factor
2008-04-07 16:43:00 Raza Rumi On the flourishing ‘column’ industry despite the slow growth of readership’ What is so peculiar about the Pakistani media opinion factories churning out problems and solutions products day after day? Frankly, they are self perpetuating oligarchies and boring at best. The slightly discerning mortals who browse the daily newspapers in English and vernacular languages or ...
The Media Factor
2008-04-07 11:26:00 On the flourishing 'column' industry despite the slow growth of readership...Raza Rumi What is so peculiar about the Pakistani media opinion factories churning out problems and solutions products day after day? Frankly, they are self perpetuating oligarchies and boring at best. The slightly discerning mortals who browse the daily newspapers in English and vernacular languages or bother to engage with the electronic media discussions are struck by certain repetitive trends. Let me map them out before rambling any further. On a note of caution, there is no intention of making generalisations here. Exceptions, they say, prove the rule!The curse of self-importanceNowhere else would you find brazen references to the importance of a writers' opinion particularly among the Urdu language newspaper columnists. Despite the slow growth of readership, the 'kalam-navees' industry is flourishing. A few years ago, a new Urdu newspaper with a hefty advertising budget, ensured that a few big na...
By: Light Within
Glenn Greenwald on the Media
2008-04-05 16:25:00 Greenwald compares the quantity of media coverage devoted to real issues to that devoted to non-issues. As it turns out, our media is far more concer1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
The Terrorists? Virtual World - The Media Line
2008-04-03 14:15:00 The Terrorists? Virtual WorldThe Media Line, NY - 1 hour agoExperts around the world are researching what may have already become the terrorists' new weapon of choice: virtual worlds. Last February the US Office of ...
The Terrorists? Virtual World - The Media Line
2008-04-03 14:15:00 Canada.comThe Terrorists? Virtual WorldThe Media Line, NY - 7 hours agoExperts around the world are researching what may have already become the terrorists' new weapon of choice: virtual worlds. Last February the US Office of ...IBM and Linden Lab to Explore Enterprise-Class Solution for ... WELT ONLINEVirtual World Gets Another Life Wall Street JournalCongressional Hearing Simulcast in an Internet-based Virtual World Government TechnologyWashington Post - Los Angeles Timesall 146 news articles
Shanahan Addresses The Media, Answers A Few Questions
2008-04-01 21:42:00 Mike Shanahan has a policy. He'll talk with the media at the end of the season, then not again until the Owner's Meetings in the spring. Alot can happen during that time, of course, which means these meetings are chock full of information. This meet and greet with the media was no different, with Shanny at long last answering some of the questions bothering Broncos fans everywhere -- * Wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who suffered a severe gash on his forearm, will be "ready to go" for training camp if the doctors projections hold true in his recovery from surgery. * D.J. Williams will move back to weak-side linebacker, a position he played in 2005, his first year as a starter. Williams had played middle linebacker this past season. "I thought D.J. was a more natural (weak-side) linebacker," Shanahan said. Free-agent signee Niko Koutouvides will line up in the middle when the team begins on-field work and free-agent Boss Bailey will play the strong side. The...
By: Mile High Report
Degrees of Homosexuality (and a complaint about the Media)
2008-03-30 17:28:00 A warning to all easily offended homosexuals, you may not like this post. (Explicit Content) |
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