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July 2008
- Ex- Journal Editor Lands Atop Post
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 7, 08 3:21 PM CDT
  
  The Washington Post has picked Marcus Brauchli, a former top editor at the Wall Street Journal , as its executive editor, sources tell the New York Times , with a formal announcement coming later today or tomorrow. The 46-year-old Brauchli replaces the outgoing Leonard Downie, 66, and represents a dramatic generational shift under the new, 42-year-old publisher. More »
- Networks Wrestle With Fall Uncertainty
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 7, 08 1:03 PM CDT
  
  Still reeling from the writers strike and dealing with the threat of an actors strike, network TV faces an uphill battle for viewers this fall. On the eve of the annual dog-and-pony show to introduce new shows to critics, USA Today TV expert Robert Bianco looks at the uncertainty plaguing the once-reliable fall TV season and the straws the networks are grasping. More »
- Fox Unleashes Attack Dogs on Other Media
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 7, 08 8:31 AM CDT
  
  The Fox News public relations machine makes no bones about skewering those it perceives as foes, writes David Carr in the New York Times . “At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them,” Carr notes. It deals with the press “more like a political campaign” than a news organization, says one reporter. More »
- Not So Fast With Those Numbers, David Brooks
  
  newser | TPM Cafe | Jul 2, 08 7:12 PM CDT
  
  Despite David Brooks' attempts to “muddy” the mathematical waters, Barack Obama’s tax plan doesn’t hit the wealthy very hard—and it’s the one that helps the middle class, Jared Bernstein writes in Talking Points Memo Café. Brooks wrote in the Times that moneyed Americans would pay “over 50% of their income” under Obama, but Bernstein says the top 1% would fork over 36%, the top 0.1% only 39%—comparable to rates under Clinton. More »
- Iran and American Jews: 'Divided Loyalties'?
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 2, 08 4:00 PM CDT
  
  With rhetoric on Iran escalating almost daily, Glenn Greenwald reviews recent charges that Israel's agenda is what's behind all this agitation for war. When Joe Klein argued last week in Time that some war proponents are “motivated by their allegiance to Israel,” reaction was "as vicious, furious and dishonest as it was predictable," Greenwald writes in Salon. More »
- Legendary New York Editor Dead at 82
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 1, 08 2:45 PM CDT
  
  Clay Felker, founder and editor of New York magazine, died today at 82. Felker was the pioneer of a distinctive format that has become the model for weekly magazines: long, novelistic features alongside short, spicy service pieces. "Clay was obsessed with power, and he invented a magazine in the image of that obsession," current New York editor Adam Moss told the New York Times. More »
June 2008
- Choose Your Own Adventure, This American Life Style
  
  newser | Radar | Jun 29, 08 8:50 AM CDT
  
  This American Life , providing "a valuable census of liberal America's cultural consciousness since 1996," comes in for a little ribbing from Walker Boyd in Radar . Boyd spoofs Ira Glass's radio and TV narratives with a Mad Libs-type story generator. Now "your dreams of Ira narrating some touching yet inoffensive slice of your middle- to upper-class existence can become a reality," he writes. Some slices thereof: More »
- Five Problems With Environmental Reporting
  
  newser | Columbia Journalism Review | Jun 29, 08 5:15 AM CDT
  
  If you’re flummoxed by ever-shifting information on climate change and the environment, just think what the folks who report it must be going through. Deadline pressures and conflicting scientific papers have reporters struggling to provide editors with sellable stories, the Columbia Journalism Review reports, and the results don’t always accurately represent the issue. CJR nails five big issues with environmental journalism: More »
- He Brings World Peace, One Goofy Dance at a Time
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 24, 08 5:56 PM CDT
  
  Fred Astaire he's not, but Matt Harding sure inspires the masses. The globetrotting former video-game designer, whose goofy dance set the Internet abuzz, is back at it. His latest video shows him dancing—OK, maybe flailing— with fans from Seattle to Fiji to Rwanda, and it's approaching 2 million hits on YouTube, Michelle Kung notes in the Wall Street Journal . More »
- Evangelical Dobson Slams Obama
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 24, 08 12:23 PM CDT
  
  One of the country's most prominent evangelical leaders says Barack Obama is "distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view," the AP reports. Focus on the Family head James Dobson recorded an 18-minute screed that was released ahead of his radio show today, accusing Obama of “dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.” More »
- Facebook Just 'Flavor of the Month': Murdoch
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jun 23, 08 3:11 PM CDT
  
  Rupert Murdoch today insulted the rival of his popular MySpace, calling Facebook the “flavor of the month” and a mere “directory”—on the occasion of his social networking sinking to the No. 2 spot in worldwide traffic. The media mogul said Facebook was not a real social network, and pointed to MySpace’s entertainment focus, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. More »
- Minutes Dwindle for Networks' War Coverage
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 23, 08 1:45 PM CDT
  
  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. More »
- France's Top Newspaper Faces Crisis
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 23, 08 12:40 PM CDT
  
  In the past year, the French newspaper Le Monde has endured the worst crisis in its history, losing its editor-in-chief and failing to appear on newsstands for days during a series of strikes. Now its 340 staffers have been given an ultimatum, writes the Guardian : Unless about 20% accept voluntary resignations by next week, the independent paper will be taken over by corporate owners. More »
- In Internet Age, No Story Can Be Held
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 23, 08 7:26 AM CDT
  
  When Tim Russert died on June 13, NBC News held off reporting his death until it had notified the broadcaster's family. But by the time Tom Brokaw announced the news, NBC had been scooped—by Wikipedia, which broke the story 40 minutes earlier. As the New York Times reports, the Internet is ending traditional media's ability to hold a story, for better and for worse. More »
- Broker Breaks Ranks to Rant on Profession's 'Gibberish'
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Jun 21, 08 10:41 PM CDT
  
  A London broker who wrote a popular, anonymous newspaper column that lambasted the greed, superficiality, and "gibberish"-peddling nature of his profession is going public, quitting the financial world, and, of course, writing a book about it all, Bloomberg reports. “We didn't invent greed,” said Geraint Anderson, who revealed his identity in TheLondonPaper this week, “but we have certainly become its finest exponents.” More »
- Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus
  
  newser | Jezebel | Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
  
  A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger at New York-based Jezebel writes to the Beijing-based artist. More »
- 4 Men Charged in Murder of Politkovskaya
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 19, 08 9:50 AM CDT
  
  Four men have been charged in Moscow in connection with the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist shot dead outside her apartment in 2006. Authorities believe that her murder was linked to her exposés on human rights abuses in Chechnya. Two of the accused are Chechens, the Guardian reports—both brothers of the suspected hit man, who is still at large. More »
- RIP, Tim... Now Get Off the Air
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 17, 08 12:20 PM CDT
  
  Tim Russert was an extraordinary journalist, and his passing is a sad loss, but the news media went a bit overboard this weekend, writes Debra Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle . “We now know more about Tim Russert than Vladimir Putin,” she points out. Did the country really need hours parsing Russert’s relationship with his dad, son, and hometown? More »
- Colbert Grabs a Peabody
  
  newser | Broadcasting & Cable | Jun 17, 08 2:58 AM CDT
  
  Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert snatched a prestigious Peabody media award at last night's ceremony hosted by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. She stepped in to replace Brian Williams, who opted to spend time with NBC colleagues after Tim Russert's death. Colbert displayed his usual deadpan style, comparing his staff to a "barium enema" for injecting themselves into stories to flush out "truthiness." Other recipients included: More »
- Blogger on Trail Scoops MSM
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jun 16, 08 7:20 PM CDT
  
  Two of the biggest recent campaign scoops—Barack Obama's "bitter" bomb and Bill Clinton's "scumbag" tirade—originated not with the mainstream media but with a 61-year-old Oakland resident who blogs for the Huffington Post. The New Yorker visits with Mayhill Fowler, who ruminates about her exclusives and expresses a few regrets. More »

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MEDIA
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

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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