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May 2008
- How TV, Money Robbed Sports Fans—and Journos
  
  Slate | May 23, 08 6:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The days when journalists could get to know professional athletes well enough to write the kinds of profiles that would give fans true insight are long gone, Pat Jordan laments on Slate, with television and the accompanying big money the main culprits. Where Jordan once spent days with Catfish Hunter, he can't get to today's stars without dealing with an army of flaks. More »
- O'Reilly Blasts at GE Coming From Upstairs
  
  Washington Post | May 19, 08 11:12 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Bill O’Reilly’s campaign against General Electric—the Fox News host has called CEO Jeffrey Immelt a “despicable human being” for doing business with Iran—is part of a feud with NBC that extends far up corporate ladders, the Washington Post reports. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes apparently loosed O’Reilly on GE in retaliation for attacks by host Keith Olbermann on GE subsidiary MSNBC. More »
- Pentagon Emails Detail TV Propaganda Plans
  
  Salon | May 10, 08 4:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Need more proof that the Pentagon coached ostensibly impartial military analysts about what to say on TV? In Salon, Glenn Greenwald reveals emails from one top defense staffer who suggested developing a core group of insiders who are “most reliably friendly” and that “we can count on to carry our water.” A Rumseld aide agreed, adding, "We're already doing a lot of this." The allegations first surfaced in a New York Times investigative piece. More »
- Judges Back Rowling in Case Over Son Pics
  
  Reuters | May 7, 08 3:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A British court approved JK Rowling’s request to ban publication of a photograph of her son, Reuters reports, reversing a lower circuit's ruling. "If a child of parents who are not in the public eye could reasonably expect not to have photographs of him published in the media, so too should the child of a famous parent," the ruling read. More »
- Usher Won't 'Pimp Out' Son
  
  New York Post | May 2, 08 11:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a world where Jennifer Lopez made $6 million off her twins’ first photo and famous-for-no-reason Nicole Richie raked in $1 million from her baby, Usher is one celebrity who won't profit from parenthood, the pop singer says. Upset by rumors he was trying to peddle photos of his infant son, Usher told the New York Post , "In no way would I ever pimp out my child for money." More »
April 2008
- Daily Paper Dumps Print Edition for Web
  
  New York Times | Apr 28, 08 4:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In an ominous sign of the times for printed news, a struggling 90-year-old Wisconsin daily newspaper is shutting down its daily print operation, but will continue to exist online, the New York Times reports. Most of the 18,000 current subscribers of Madison's afternoon Capital Times are switching to the city's bigger daily. More »
- Bush Strikes Chord at Scribes Dinner
  
  Variety | Apr 28, 08 3:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush did a star turn at his final White House correspondents dinner—showing video snippets of previous appearances and grabbing a baton to conduct the Marine Corps Band in Stars & Stripes Forever . Correspondents were way down the pecking order behind celebrities like Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Martha Stewart, and Jenny McCarthy at the annual lovefest between the White House and journalists, reports Variety . More »
- Bloomberg Won't Buy NY Times
  
  Reuters | Apr 22, 08 8:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If the New York Times is wooing potential buyers as many have speculated, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to be an ideal suitor. He heads a media empire, has a $12 billion fortune and the acumen to go mano-a-mano with Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal— and he'll have time on his hands when he leaves office next year. Only problem: he's not interested. More »
- Couric Gets Vote of Confidence
  
  Mediabistro blogs | Apr 18, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Katie Couric will anchor the CBS Evening News for a long time to come, the network's CEO told staffers today, TVNewser reports. Les Moonves dropped in on the daily news meeting to dispel recent rumors that Couric is not long for the newscast, which sits at the bottom of the ratings heap. At the meeting, Couric said the show is "very much family." More »
- Couric's Not Only Thing Networks Should Toss
  
  BusinessWeek | Apr 15, 08 9:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Evening network news, with or without Katie Couric aboard, is going nowhere, Ron Grover writes in BusinessWeek —then offers suggestions on what the TV giants should do to hook viewers: Make the news available on the viewers' time: Get big-name anchors on tape earlier, and put those newscasts online. More »
- Gossiper Trades Fat for Fortune
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 9, 08 10:22 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Starbucks barista who turned his Perez Hilton alter ego into a web and TV sensation is bulking up his multimedia ventures by adding a radio show and slimming down his waistline, reports the Hollywood Reporter. "I want to frickin' jog shirtless in Malibu by the Fourth of July," the self-proclaimed "Gay Latino Oprah" said in a recent blog post. More »
March 2008
- FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station
  
  Broadcasting & Cable | Mar 4, 08 4:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An FCC commissioner wants to know why an Alabama TV station went off the air just as a "60 Minutes" segment critical of Karl Rove started, Broadcasting & Cable reports. WHNT blamed a “technical difficulty," but Michael Copps said today he wants to find out whether Sunday's blackout of most of a segment about the imprisonment of ex-governor Don Siegelman was a political move. More »
- Political Cartoons No Longer Front and Center
  
  US News and World Report | Mar 1, 08 8:26 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Political cartoons remain, but they lost front page power and heft long ago, says U.S. News & World Report . Cartoonists like Thomas Nast could once sway elections—Ulysses S. Grant credited Nast's pencil to helping him win the presidency—but the ranks of full-time pen-and-paper satirists have thinned to less than 100 today, compared to 2,000 a century ago. More »
February 2008
- Murdoch's Journal Amps Up Politics, Speeds Up Stories
  
  New York Times | Feb 11, 08 12:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A month into the Rupert Murdoch era, the Wall Street Journal hasn't exactly turned into Fox News, but it has ratcheted up its political coverage, David Carr writes in the New York Times. The Journal's managing editor tells Carr the change is driven by both the drama of the presidential race and the Murdoch mandate to compete with the Times in general-interest news. More »
- No Yahoo! for News Corp., Says Murdoch
  
  CNN | Feb 5, 08 5:05 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch won't be following Microsoft's lead to place a bid for ailing Internet giant Yahoo, CNNMoney reports. Murdoch also dispelled rumors today that his company was interested in purchasing AOL, or in making any other major acquisitions. His remarks follow on the heels of Microsoft's unsolicited $45 billion bid to buy the tail-dragging Google-competitor. More »
January 2008
- Battle for Le Monde Heats Up
  
  Reuters | Jan 22, 08 4:37 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A showdown over the future of one of the world's most prestigious newspapers has come to a head after the editor in chief of Le Monde said he would fight to keep a bosom buddy of Nicolas Sarkozy's from taking over the paper. The French evening newspaper lost $14.5 million last year, Reuters reports, and editor Eric Fottorino is battling to keep employees from losing their role as majority shareholders. More »
- Thailand Axes Anti-Monarchy Website
  
  Associated Press | Jan 6, 08 6:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A Thai ministry has shut down a website critical of the country's monarchy, the AP reports. Postings on Sameskybooks.com questioned news accounts that all citizens mourned the king's sister, who died Wednesday, and criticized officials. "I think we're one of the few sites posting remarks against the monarchy," Thanapol Eiwsakul, who ran the site, told a Thai newspaper. "This is the price we are paying." More »
- Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn
  
  Washington Post | Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post . “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school troubles, and now explores the trials of a major newspaper. More »
December 2007
- FCC Loosens Cross-Media Ownership Ban
  
  Washington Post | Dec 18, 07 4:05 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The FCC loosened a 32-year-old ban on simultaneous ownership of a newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same city today, the Washington Post reports. The commission voted 3-2 along party lines after a dispute-filled meeting. Afterward, one of the Democratic commissioners said, "Powerful companies are using political muscle to sneak through rule changes that let them profit at the expense of the public interest." More »