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March 2008
- At Murdoch's Journal , No Cheap Makeover
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 5, 08 10:44 AM CST
  
  Rupert Murdoch may now own the nation's hallowed financial bible, but the dumbing-down fears that accompanied the purchase of the Wall Street Journal have so far proven unfounded. This week the Journal will introduce a new sports page that will integrate stats from another News Corp. property, but Murdoch's company has so far resisted other tie-ins—even some proposed by WSJ execs—saying they don't want to cheapen the brand. More »
- Obama, Media Spar Over Coverage
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 4, 08 4:40 PM CST
  
  One day after a grueling press conference, Barack Obama told reporters they were buying into flimsy grievances about media bias, the New York Times reports. “I am a little surprised that all the complaining about the refs has worked,” he said of the Clinton camp's gripes. Indeed, journalists are rethinking the fairness of their coverage, and Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo says reporting on Clinton "has often been unfair on a very fundamental level." More »
- FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station
  
  newser | Broadcasting & Cable | Mar 4, 08 4:10 PM CST
  
  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 »
- All the News That's Fit to Invent: The Onion Hits 20
  
  newser | CBS | Mar 2, 08 4:51 PM CST
  
  When a wisecracking newspaper was born in a Wisconsin dorm room in 1988, no one predicted it would one day be installed in sleek Manhattan offices, producing fake print and television news, and rolling in dough. But the Onion's president isn’t surprised, CBS reports. The paper “attracts this really great audience. And advertisers really wanna reach these people." More »
February 2008
- What Obama Promises, McCain Delivers
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Feb 29, 08 6:48 PM CST
  
  The international press corps is so seduced by Barack Obama and so disgusted by John McCain that neither man can live up to his reputation, London Times US editor Gerard Baker writes. The “grown men wandering the corridors of London, Brussels and Berlin, crooning” about Obama are the same pundits painting McCain as "the grumpy old white man," Baker contends More »
- Media Leak Ends Harry's Afghan Mission
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Feb 29, 08 5:38 AM CST
  
  Britain's defense ministry is setting up emergency plans to withdraw Prince Harry from his battalion in Afghanistan after yesterday's news leak that he had been stationed there. He has completed 10 weeks of what was supposed to be a four-month tour of duty in Helmand Province, reports the Times of London. The defense ministry lifted its media embargo on coverage of Harry's service after the Drudge Report, the German tabloid Bild and an Australian women's magazine reported the story. More »
- Kimmel's Revenge Scores Big
  
  newser | Billboard | Feb 27, 08 4:57 PM CST
  
  Take that, Sarah. A star-studded—and very much tongue-in-cheek—ode to Jimmy Kimmel's lust for Ben Affleck has become an Internet sensation, Billboard reports. The late-night host's video is a rebuttal to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's "I'm F---ing Matt Damon." The latest salvo, with Kimmel and a host of guest stars, including Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, is called "I'm F---ing Ben Affleck." More »
- Black Crowes Squawk at Sham Maxim Review
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Feb 27, 08 2:42 PM CST
  
  Pick a number, any number: Maxim 's 2.5-star rating—out of 5—for the Black Crowes' latest album was little more than a guess, the magazine admitted yesterday. No advanced copies were released, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, but that didn't stop Maxim's critic from decreeing in the March issue that Warpaint "hasn't left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth." More »
- Dem Debate Oddly Like 'SNL' Parody
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 27, 08 11:28 AM CST
  
  Hillary Clinton was so taken by last week's "Saturday Night Live" sketch that had moderators fawning over Barack Obama in a debate between the two candidates that she brought it up in the real debate last night. And the debate lived up to the SNL spoof, Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times : the anchors needled her constantly and seemed to go out of their way to show Obama at his unflappable best. More »
- Journos Find Fault With NYT Story
  
  newser | Cleveland Plain Dealer | Feb 25, 08 7:31 PM CST
  
  The New York Times ’ bombshell story about John McCain’s ethics problems—and his allegedly inappropriate relationship with a lobbyist—is nearly a week old, but the media world is still reacting: The Cleveland Plain Deale r’s ombudsman explains that his paper’s editor was too uncomfortable with the romantic angle to run the Times piece—which he accuses of “unsubstantiated innuendo”—and decided to run the unsexed Washington Post story instead. But they drew criticism from readers anyway. More »
- Blogger Wins Award, Vindication
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 25, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  The blogosphere is rejoicing in the news that “local boy” Joshua Micah Marshall garnered a George Polk Award for legal reporting. Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog is the first Internet-only operation to win the award, and many bloggers see that as validation, reports the New York Times . Marshall won for coverage of the US attorney firings scandal. More »
- McCain Support Comes From All Corners
  
  newser | Politico | Feb 22, 08 2:03 PM CST
  
  One day after the New York Times reported on John McCain's "close bond" with Vicki Iseman, reaction is still developing, and not necessarily along ideological lines. Observers of the observers offer their impressions. Popular liberal bloggers, "breaking with partisan patterns, are expressing discomfort," Ben Smith of Politico writes, adding, ""The defense of McCain from the left reflects well on the blogs' objectivity.” More »
- Right Rallies to McCain's Defense Against NYT
  
  newser | ABC News | Feb 21, 08 6:12 PM CST
  
  Conservative media figures who previously shunned John McCain stood up for him today—but also said he had it coming to him for wooing the mainstream press, ABC reports. Sean Hannity called the New York Times story on McCain's relationship with a lobbyist “beyond disgraceful." Rush Limbaugh, lumping the media in with the left, said, “The lesson is liberals are to be defeated. You cannot reach across the aisle.” More »
- McCain Story Spurred Turmoil at Times
  
  newser | New Republic | Feb 21, 08 1:40 PM CST
  
  Today’s New York Times bombshell alleging improper ties between John McCain and a lobbyist dropped only after three months of feuding between reporters who thought they’d “nailed” a story and the Gray Lady’s unsatisfied editor, the New Republic reports. One writer quit the paper over the holdup; another staffer begged off covering McCain's campaign because he felt like “a pawn.” More »
- Wanted: Comic Who Can Imitate This Candidate
  
  newser | New York Post | Feb 20, 08 6:31 PM CST
  
  The latest indication Barack Obama is one of a kind: Saturday Night Live can’t find an actor to impersonate the Democratic presidential candidate. Show mastermind Lorne Michaels says mimicking any celeb's “mildly irritating” minor tics is crucial to any impersonation. The show, returning Saturday from the writers' strike, could have a new cast member portraying the Illinois senator, the New York Post reports. More »
- 3 Danish Papers Reprint Cartoon of Muhammad
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Feb 13, 08 6:10 AM CST
  
  After yesterday's arrest of three men allegedly plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist, the country's three largest newspapers all reprinted the offending cartoon, Bloomberg reports. Kurt Westergaard's controversial depiction of the prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban was originally printed in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten , which reproduced it again today. More »
- Help With Post-Strike TV Schedules
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Feb 11, 08 12:16 PM CST
  
  If everything goes according to plan and writers get back to work on Wednesday, when will scripted TV shows get back on the air? In general, the most popular shows will go into production again immediately, but many others won't return until the next season, if at all, reports Chicago Tribune blogger Maureen Ryan. More »
- MSNBC Anchor Apologizes for 'Pimped Out' Jab at Clinton
  
  newser | Washington Post | Feb 8, 08 6:22 PM CST
  
  MNSBC suspended anchor David Shuster today after he drew fire from Hillary Clinton's camp for saying former first daughter Chelsea was being “pimped out in some weird sort of way” by her mother’s campaign. Shuster apologized on air earlier tonight, though he at first stood by the comments, made yesterday, even after a spokesman called his remark offensive, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Cautious TV Wins Super Tuesday
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 6, 08 10:47 AM CST
  
  It was a chastened, circumspect TV news machine that creaked into action last night, the New York Times reports. After trusting ultimately incorrect polls in New Hampshire, pundits seemed terrified of making bold calls—a strategy that worked out, since the primary bonanza settled nothing. The biggest gaffe came from the AP, which erroneously called Missouri for Hillary Clinton. More »
- Moguls Take Feud to Court
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 4, 08 1:45 PM CST
  
  The escalating fight between media barons Barry Diller and John Malone over control of IAC/Interactive Corp. has its origins in the men’s shared talent for wheeling and dealing, the New York Times reports in a portrait of the colorful, headstrong, vastly different moguls. Both have faced accusations of chasing deals that benefit them more than shareholders—a complaint high among those Malone’s Liberty Media has levied against Diller. More »

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MEDIA [Coined in the 1920s, as a shortening of mass media] . A collective term for newspapers, broadcasting, and other vehicles of widespread communication and entertainment, often used attributively in such phrases as Media Studies and media education . In the later 20c, the usage has been ...

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