Star's 'editorial plan' part of careful campaign to mold public image
New York Times Nov 21, 08 3:57 AM CST
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Angelina Jolie wanted more than mere millions of dollars for the first photos of herself and her new twins, the New York Times reports. As part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to mold her public image, the star demanded, and won, a promise from People that the magazine's future coverage of her would be glowingly positive.
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Associated Press Nov 3, 08 2:39 PM CST
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The Onion , bucking a 20-year trend, plans to cover tomorrow's election results in something resembling real time, the AP reports. The "satirical newspaper of record" and its website have prepared articles and videos in advance, requiring long hours unfamiliar to its writers. “It has become sort of necessary for us to really do a little more coverage than we normally would,” says editor Joe Randazzo.
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Times scribe banned after Palin diss; stranded in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 2, 08 10:03 AM CDT
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Straight talk not only got New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd banned from the McCain-Palin campaign planes, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , it got her marooned in Pittsburgh. After writing a scathing satire of Sarah Palin's candidacy—harsh but hardly unprecedented for the gleefully snarky writer—a stunned Dowd was left behind in the middle of a campaign swing, forcing her to overnight in a local hotel while the rest of the press pack traveled on.
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CNN anchor rips McCain's 'delicate flower' treatment
Chicago Tribune Sep 24, 08 12:26 PM CDT
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Another rant on sexism has political bloggers buzzing today, Mark Silva notes in the Swamp. Only in this one, CNN’s Campbell Brown lays into the McCain campaign for clamping “chauvinistic chains” on Sarah Palin by not letting her take questions from the media as other candidates do.
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OPINION
Respect and courtesy, certainly, but 'deference' is pushing it
Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 08 7:19 AM CDT
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The McCain camp's insistence that Sarah Palin not submit to questioning until the media shows "respect and deference" is a brazen double standard bound to raise voter eyebrows, Tim Rutten writes in the Los Angeles Times . She is certainly due respect, Rutten writes, but it is hard to justify the media showing more deference to the governor of Alaska than to the president.
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COMMENTARY
Hint: Most aren't covering anything
Columbia Journalism Review Aug 28, 08 12:29 PM CDT
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A whopping 15,000 journalists arrived in Denver to cover the Democratic National Convention. The Columbia Journalism Review sent Justin Peters to find out what they're doing: 7,500 mostly mill about: "Only a small number of reporters actually have a reason to be here." 2, 294 pace the parking lot, "mournfully wandering around like Diogenes, looking for stories." 1,026 get drunk.
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Gets personal and political on-air at the DNC
New York Post Aug 27, 08 10:17 AM CDT
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Infighting between MSNBC anchors is turning the Democratic National Convention into a partisan catfight. Joe Scarborough, who once served as Republican representative, got touchy when David Shuster yesterday referred to “your party, the Republican Party” and Scarborough and Tom Brokaw are miffed at the channel’s decision to increase its left-leaning programming.
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She will replace longtime host Abrams, following Olbermann
New York Times Aug 19, 08 10:04 PM CDT
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MSNBC is honing its left-leaning lineup in the “final leg” of the presidential election, swapping longtime host Dan Abrams for the more overtly partisan Rachel Maddow in its 9pm time slot. The switch has been long expected, reports the New York Times. Network execs see Maddow as a better fit with popular lefty host Keith Olbermann, whose show airs at 8. Maddow begins her full-time gig on Sept. 8, after the political conventions.
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Chinese government clamping down on media access ahead of games
New York Times Jul 21, 08 3:07 AM CDT
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NBC paid a record $900 million to cover the Beijing Olympics, but it and other networks are already nervous about how much Chinese officials will actually allow them to cover, reports the New York Times . If political protests erupt, networks will also face the dilemma of covering them and angering the Chinese—or ignoring them and facing charges of censorship from the West. Reporters are already facing intimidation and harassment.
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OPINION
Description of motherhood, pregnancy as 'fun,' 'perfect' send wrong message
Infos Jeunes Jul 17, 08 12:23 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears’ gushing OK! magazine spread, with its poetic waxings about motherhood, sends the exact wrong message—telling teens it's “perfect” to have a baby, critics say. “There's no way I would describe caring for a new baby as “fun.” “Fulfilling,” maybe, but it's possible Jamie Lynn lacks the vocabulary to explain how she's feeling exactly,” writes the French Infos Jeunes.
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French daily gets inside track
Associated Press Jul 15, 08 11:36 AM CDT
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In a style befitting a couple of action-movie stars, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt outfoxed the tabloids by allowing a local newspaper to break the story of their twins’ birth, the AP reports. The daily Nice-Matin got a heads-up before the big event, the scoop that the delivery was moved up “for the mother’s comfort,” and a post-delivery photo of Pitt.
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Opinion
Aides need to let candor shine through once more
Wall Street Journal Jun 27, 08 9:15 AM CDT
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John McCain is getting lost in the giant media shadow thrown by Barack Obama, but there's plenty of time to fix things, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . For every two Obamania stories, there's one "deadly" boring report declaring: "McCain Unveils Proposal.” Now would be a good time for McCain to get interesting again, Noonan says. To the McCain who in 2000 spoke with unblinking candor, she pleads: Please step up.
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ANALYSIS
Bureaus cut amid financial concerns; political primary blots out other stories
New York Times Jun 23, 08 1:45 PM CDT
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Middle East correspondents are struggling to get stories on the nightly news as TV networks scale back war coverage, the New York Times reports. With violence in Iraq declining and the US public tiring of an open-ended conflict, network execs have focused on hot topics like the contentious presidential primaries. Keeping, and securing, bureaus in violent areas is also quite costly.
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