Media Scoundrels Wage War
By Stephen Lendman.
They’re in lockstep with US imperial policy. They support its dark side unapologetically. They’re propaganda bullhorns for wrong over right. They’re de facto Washington house organs.
Readers [...]
The StealthGenie Complaint: Is It Real?
By Stephen Bryen.
Two US Assistant United States Attorneys, Kevin Mikolashek and Jay Prabhu have filed a civil Complaint (Civil No. 1:14-ev 1273) against Hammad Akbar for selling a spyware product called StealthGenie. StealthGenie [...]
MSNBC President Phil Griffin Says Network Has Had a “Tough Stretch” as Ratings Sink to 7-Year Low
By Don Irvine.
MSNBC president Phil Griffin, who predicted last year that the network would beat Fox News Channel by 2014, admitted this week that the network has had a “tough stretch.” He added that despite the fact that MSNBC’s ratings [...]
Holder: Worst AG in US history for journalism?
By Christopher Daly.
There are, of course, many ways to evaluate the performance of Eric Holder as the Attorney General of the United States. Since he announced his intention to retire, many voices have attempted to determine [...]
New media outlet in New Hampshire
By Christopher B. Daly.
Welcome to the news business to the latest wealthy businessman seeking to have a role in politics through the media. The newest member of the club is Bill Binnie, the founder of the media venture NH1, which [...]
Americans’ Trust in Media Returns to All-Time Low
By Don Irvine.
Gallup has just released its latest survey of Americans’ confidence in the news media, and after a one-year rise, it has slipped back to an all-time low:
After registering slightly higher trust last year, Americans’ [...]
Journalists criticise inaccurate reporting
By Beryl Ratzer.
Point to Ponder: How is it that the UN, EU, most of the media and virtually all liberal activists refuse to acknowledge that Hamas used UNRWA schools and hospitals as safe houses from which to fire [...]
A tribute to Jim Foley from his boss
By Christopher B. Daly.
Jim Foley is remembered in this powerful op-ed by Phil Balboni, the founder of the Boston-based news site GlobalPost, which Foley was working for when he was kidnapped and later murdered. Since he was a civilian [...]
MSNBC Goes All Out on Ferguson Coverage—Ratings Sink
By Don Irvine.
A new Pew Research report finds that MSNBC devoted far more time to the coverage of the events in Ferguson, Missouri than any other cable news network. Yet according to Nielsen, it didn’t help the network’s [...]
Journalism in the movies (Whitey Bulger edition)
By Christopher B. Daly.
A tip of the old scally cap to Dick Lehr — my colleague at Boston University and an old friend. He has a front-page piece today in his old employer, The Boston Globe, about his experiences visiting [...]
National Public Radio Ombudsman: “Balance” is Not Our Guiding Ethic
By Don Irvine.
This probably won’t come as a shock to conservatives, but National Public Radio admitted on Wednesday that “balance” isn’t the network’s guiding ethic.
The revelation came during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session [...]
Brainwaves can predict audience reaction for television programming
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Media and marketing experts have long sought a reliable method of forecasting responses from the general population to future products and messages. According to a study conducted at the [...]
Ratings-Challenged Al Jazeera America Considering More Layoffs
By Don Irvine.
Al Jazeera America, which will be celebrating its first anniversary next week, is considering another round of layoffs, as the network’s ratings continue to sag.
According to TV Newser, Al Jazeera America CEO Ehab Al Shihabi [...]
Beyond the Conspiracy Theorist: How Media and Government teach us to Believe in Conspiracies
By Bob Goldberg.
For too long, students of conspiracy theories have focused on the men and women who weave events into plots. In targeting these “entrepreneurs” who sell conspiracy, we forget about the other institutions [...]
Obama Gets 3 Pinocchios for Saying GOP Blocked Every Serious Idea
By Don Irvine.
The Washington Post Fact Checker has taken President Obama to task once again for being less than truthful when he blamed Republicans for his administration’s economic failures:
“So far this year, Republicans in Congress [...]
The dinosaurs of old media still shake the earth
By Christopher B. Daly.
Is all the coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s play for Time Warner a bit of an over-reaction?
The NYTimes, for example, cleared the decks and went all-in, devoting nearly a double truck of today’s Business [...]
We are witnessing “the end of the social network era as we’ve known it”
By Hassan Soukar.
The last five years has been the rise of the Social Network as a utility platform. Now that it’s created, the next five years will be about building on that foundation. New social apps are due to focus on sharing [...]
CNN: Palestinians Want to Die
By David Swanson
In this latest assault on Gaza, Israel had by Thursday already killed 69 Palestinians including 22 children and 13 women, plus 469 wounded including 166 children and 85 women, and 70 houses destroyed. These numbers [...]
The Media Obsession With Hillary and Bill Clinton Continues
By Peter Rosenstein.
Two, three or more major stories about Hillary and Bill Clinton are in the papers and on TV daily. The Hillary stories range from glowing to glowering. The NY Times has had a reporter assigned to the Hillary [...]
Huff & Puff Propagandizes a FOX Reality
By Frank Salvato.
I go through the headlines and news stories in over one-hundred publications daily. I do this so that I can view multiple sources on some of the same stories. Doing this allows me to formulate what is fact and what is [...]