Report: New NBC news president reevaluating MSNBC programming
By Don Irvine.
MSNBC, which has been struggling in the ratings for the last two years and has recently been hitting new 10-year lows, may finally be getting the attention it needs from NBC News.
According to Mediaite, new NBC News [...]
KPFT Houston, 45 Years After Domestic Terrorist Bombings, Plays On
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan.
“Pacifica Station Bombed Off Air,” read the Houston Chronicle’s banner headline on May 13, 1970. KPFT, Houston’s fledgling community radio station, had been on the air for just two months [...]
ABC Must Bench Stephanopoulos on Sunday Mornings for Failure to Disclose Clinton Donation
By Joe Concha.
George Stephanopoulos needs to remove himself from ABC’s This Week on Sunday mornings immediately. And if he won’t do it himself, ABC News management — starting with ABC president James Goldston — needs [...]
Remembering Tony Lukas, teller of true stories
By Christopher B. Daly.
As a service to my readers, I am posting this brief life of Tony Lukas, author of “Common Ground” and many other fine works of narrative non-fiction. I wrote this for American National Biography [...]
Military Whistleblower Protection
By Department of Defense.
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Russian Propaganda- an important element of Putin’s Hybrid War
By Alan Malcher.
Former NATO Secretary General and ex-Prime Minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Ramussen, told Newsweek (15 April 2015) Russia was engaging in a Hybrid War. Ramussen warned that, “Russia has adopted this [...]
Liberal Media Say Clinton Campaign Lacking “Substance”
By Don Irvine.
While some in the liberal media have been fawning over Hillary Clinton’s campaign, since she officially announced that she was running for president on Sunday, there are some who are unimpressed by her efforts to [...]
The Age of Interruption; Specialties and Researching Fields
By Mohsen Goudarzi.
The Age of Interruption came after Information Age. This age has focused on communication technologies and media with the specific characteristics including Information overload and inattention among media [...]
Media mashup
By Christopher B. Daly.
A couple of recent developments need noticing:
–The NYTimes’s redoubtable foreign correspondent John F. Burns is retiring. In an unusual note about personnel matters published in today’s paper, [...]
Two Iranian Reporters Among Germanwings Crash Victims
By Hossein Amiri.
Two Iranian nationals,were among those on board the doomed Germanwings flight that ploughed into an Alpine mountainside on Tuesday.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Milad Hojjatoleslami, Tasnim [...]
WaPo Fact Checker Gives John Kerry Four Pinocchio’s for Climate Change Hearing Claims
By Don Irvine.
The Washington Post Fact Checker thinks that Secretary of State John Kerry may have a Brian Williams problem when it comes to the facts about his role in the first climate hearings when he was a senator.
Last [...]
What happened to the Washington Post?
By Peter Rosenstein.
(Photo by Daniel X. O’Neil; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Since October 1978, when I moved to Washington, D.C., the Washington Post has been delivered to my door each morning. For nearly all [...]
The Media Mash-Up
By Christopher B. Daly
Looking at the NYTimes Business section this morning, I cannot help but noticing how the Media beat has been hollowed out at the Times since the departure of Brian Stelter and the death of David [...]
Hillary Clinton Stories Ensure Reporters Front-Page Coverage Even Without Facts
By Peter Rosenstein.
Once again a story about Hillary Clinton gets front-page coverage even when the reporter uses innuendo and unsubstantiated “facts” to suggest wrongdoing. That is what we saw in the New York [...]
The media RDP
By Christopher B. Daly
I’m still missing my friend and colleague David Carr, whose Media Equation column was usually my first citation in these blogposts. (I wonder what he’d be saying about Bill O’Reilly — and how [...]
Facebook is a watchdog for law enforcement
By Catherine Bonjukian Patten.
I have had so many identities on FB that have been DISABLED or ENFORCEABLE REMOVED during the 10 years I have been around the net that I’m dizzy from it and I have sworn off creating [...]
US media really healthy?
By William Blum.
The Greek Tragedy: Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not.
American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated [...]
In What We Can’t Trust
By Allen Schmertzler.
The revelation that Brain Williams, the icon of network evening anchor news, exaggerated his role in a war related news story is painful. In a trial the judge always advises the jury that if a witness is caught [...]
Net Neutrality, Another Government Takeover
By Richard Larsen.
Like a cancerous growth spreading throughout an otherwise healthy body, government overreach, regulation, and control of every aspect of our free-market system continues to expand, infesting and damaging economic [...]
A picture is worth 1000 words, but how many emotions?
The Daily Journalist.
Log on to Twitter, Facebook or other social media and you will find that much of the content shared with you comes in the form of images, not just words. Those images can convey a lot more than a sentence [...]