Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: media coverage

media coverage stories: 36 news summaries

1 - 20 of 36 Stories | 1 2 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer... More »

MORE ABOUT:
media • newspaper • New York Times • Yale University • Ivy League • crime • murder • homicide • tabloids • media coverage • Oklahoma State University • Harvard University • Annie Le • Raymond Clark • Nancy Grace

ANALYSIS

 Pentagon Grades 
 Reporters' War Coverage 

Documents shed light on Defense efforts to shape news from Afghanistan

Aug 27, 09 8:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a view to trying to influence coverage of the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is grading journalists’ work, the Stars and Stripes reports. The military newspaper says it has documents that counter official denials of the practice, with coverage rated as “positive,” “neutral,” or “... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Pentagon • journalism • Department of Defense • Constitution • public relations • media coverage • Afghanistan war • Rendon Group

OPINION

 Radio Was Gonna 
 Kill Newspapers, Too 


Aug 4, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - As newspapers hemorrhage cash, the refrain is getting louder: the Web is sucking away their audiences and can never replicate the serious journalism they offer. The argument sounds familiar, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: It’s the one newspapers used against radio 80 years ago. Radio was then seen as... More »

MORE ABOUT:
radio • Internet • newspaper • online news • media coverage • print journalism • Jack Shafer • newspaper industry

(Newser) - There's been lots of media chatter about Mediaite.com, the website Dan Abrams rolled out this morning, most of it sight-unseen, challenging the former MSNBC host's intention to continue to run a media strategy firm alongside the site. Howard Kurtz, one of those critics, now takes a look at the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
blog • American media • Dan Abrams • media coverage • digital media • Twitter • Mediaite

CNN Fiddled While Tehran Burned

Twitter users blast network's paltry coverage during riots

Jun 15, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter has already become a go-to place for breaking news, but the micro-blogging site assumed the role of media watchdog over the weekend, reports the New York Times. As riots protesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory began to heat up in Tehran—and CNN aired a Larry King repeat about American ... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • protests • CNN • watchdog • riots • disputed election • media coverage • Twitter • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s father—the great-grandfather of Bristol Palin’s son, Tripp—says 19-year-old babydaddy Levi Johnston “has not contributed anything” to raising the boy, Us reports. Chuck Heath took exception to Johnston’s recent Palin-bashing media tour. “He’s broke, so he’s trying to capitalize on... More »

MORE ABOUT:
parenting • diapers • Election 2008 • media coverage • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • Chuck Heath

Paparazzi Switch Focus from Britney to Bankers

Public outrage spurs media to cover corporate excess

Mar 13, 09 1:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tabloids and TV shows best known for hounding Hollywood stars are turning their cameras to bankers and captains of industry, the New York Times reports. Paparazzi now track corporate jets and snoop on lavish parties held by execs at bailed-out banks, tapping into a deep vein of public anger at... More »

MORE ABOUT:
executive compensation • tabloids • paparazzi • media coverage • bankers • executives • Wall Street bailout

Credit Crisis Shocked 
Big Papers—but Why? 



Only a few outlets warned of subprime collapse

Mar 8, 09 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the financial crisis shocked news readers—and it did—it must have surprised news writers as well, David Folkenflik reasons on NPR. He surveyed major US publications and, sure enough, found few warnings of financial doom pre-meltdown. A New York Times columnist explained it this way: "As... More »

MORE ABOUT:
media • New York Times • Wall Street Journal • journalism • media coverage • BusinessWeek • financial crisis

Comic Fritzl 
Play Sparks 
Death Threats 

Director insists he's mocking media, not rape and incest

Feb 23, 09 4:52 PM CST
(Newser) - A comic play about accused rapist Josef Fritzl is set to open in Vienna, drawing the ire—and death threats—of Austrians who are not amused, the BBC reports. Director Hubsi Kramar stressed that the largely improvised piece, co-starring victims of abuse, is a commentary on media coverage of Fritzl’... More »

MORE ABOUT:
theater • satire • comedy • play • murder trial • incest • media coverage • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • controversy

(Newser) - You can’t miss President Obama these days, as he undertakes a media blitz that has watchers nodding and shaking their heads in equal proportion, Linton Weeks writes for NPR. “The president who promised to be transparent is actually omniparent—appearing all over tarnation.” Some see the saturation... More »

MORE ABOUT:
television • press conference • media coverage • Obama administration • television interview • financial crisis • President Obama • economic downturn

 Palin: Media 
 Gives Kennedy 
 Free Pass 

Social status made for her own tough ride, says ex-candidate, also ripping Fey, Couric

Jan 8, 09 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin says the media is lobbing softballs at Caroline Kennedy because of the would-be New York senator’s class status, Politico reports. The Republican governor of Alaska speculates that “there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy,”... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Katie Couric • Tina Fey • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • class divide • media bias • media coverage • Sarah Palin

 Biggest Media Gaffes of 2008 


Dec 23, 08 7:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Politico runs down a list of some of the worst media mistakes of 2008:
  • New Hampshire primary: Just about everyone predicted Hillary would lose by double digits, ending her campaign. Not even close.
  • McCain-Iseman: The long-awaited New York Times story alleging an improper relationship between McCain and a
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Edwards • MSNBC • presidential primaries • media coverage • political coverage • Best of 2008

Jolie Photo Deal Hinged on Positive Coverage

Star's 'editorial plan' part of careful campaign to mold public image

Nov 21, 08 3:57 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • paparazzi • celebrity • photograph • publicity • media coverage • celebrity baby

(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
newspaper • satire • comedy • writer • The Onion • Election 2008 • media coverage • Joe Randazzo

Dowd Dumped From Straight Talk Express

Times scribe banned after Palin diss; stranded in Pittsburgh

Oct 2, 08 10:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John McCain • reporter • Maureen Dowd • Election 2008 • media coverage • Sarah Palin • Straight Talk Express

Brown: Free Palin From Mac's 'Chauvinistic Chains' 

CNN anchor rips McCain's 'delicate flower' treatment

Sep 24, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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. More »

MORE ABOUT:
John McCain • sexism • Election 2008 • media coverage • Sarah Palin • Campbell Brown • rants

OPINION

Ditch the Double Standard
for Palin, McCain

Respect and courtesy, certainly, but 'deference' is pushing it

Sep 11, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John McCain • running mate • campaign etiquette • media coverage • Sarah Palin • interview

COMMENTARY

 What Journos Really
 Do at the DNC

Hint: Most aren't covering anything

Aug 28, 08 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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."
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Denver • list • journalist • Colorado • media coverage • DNC • Pepsi Center

 MSNBC Anchors
 in DNC Slugfest

Gets personal and political on-air at the DNC

Aug 27, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MSNBC • Democratic National Convention • American media • David Shuster • media coverage • Joe Scarborough • news anchor • Tom Brokaw

MSNBC Gives Lefty Maddow Prime-Time Slot

She will replace longtime host Abrams, following Olbermann

Aug 19, 08 10:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

MORE ABOUT:
presidential campaign • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • Dan Abrams • media coverage • Rachel Maddow

1 - 20 of 36 Stories | 1 2 Next >>


from our news partners