By Christopher B. Daly. The original moonbats. New York Sun, 1835 That’s a question that came to mind today while reading David Carr’s latest. In his column, Carr identifies a trend (at least, a trend by journalism standards) of news [...]

    By Don Irvine.  Absent a national election last year, the cable news audience declined at the three leading  networks. But MSNBC, which had predicted it could overtake Fox News by 2014, took a giant  step backward last year [...]

  By Robert Slayton.   There’s something there, I swear it! The satellite saw it! Really, there’s something there! Last night, both CNN and MSNBC spent hours on how a satellite had spotted something in the Indian Ocean. [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly.   Kudos to The New Republic for this takedown of a recent Wall Street Journal editorial. The Murdoch newspaper was trying to gin up sympathy for the Koch brothers, the fossil-fuel billionaires who pour [...]

  By Joe Concha. This is a breaking news alert: CNN, Fox and MSNBC all have their specialties. For CNN, it’s still breaking news despite the (correct) move to offer more taped programs (See: documentaries) in later hours of primetime…a [...]

    By Stephen Lendman. News fit to read isn’t The Times long suit. Managed news misinformation substitutes for what readers most need to know. Truth and full disclosure are verboten. Times editors are on the wrong side of history. [...]

    By Jaime Ortega Beginning in 1450 with the Gutenberg Press the social revolution of literacy took a leap forward. However the corruption and power of the Roman Catholic Church influenced the “dark age” of human progress [...]

By Don Irvine. New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan encouraged student journalists to be accurate in their reporting, and to not plagiarize: And last, another certainty is the need to get it right. We need the strongest possible [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Here’s a peek inside what I call “the Meme Factory” — the interlocking set of institutions that conservatives built, mainly since WWII, to manufacture “studies,” slogans, and ideas that could probably [...]

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By Don Irvine. Last week, HLN announced it was going to rebrand itself, and on Wednesday the network gave a preview of what’s to come to The Hollywood Reporter. The programs will run the gamut from social media, news driven programs—Videocracyto [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly.   A hat-tip to the now-estimable Southern Oral History Program, which once operated out of the smallest room on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, back in the early 1980s, when I worked there briefly as a researcher/cataloguer. The [...]

By Allen Schmertzler.     Many of us have grown weary of the partisan hyperbole and tone of television news reporting. At the risk of dating myself, I can remember a time when CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite was declared [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. How do these things happen? Here’s the most prominent part of the homepage  for today’s Washington Post, the morning after a state dinner held at the White House for prominent French bachelor Francois Hollande. That [...]

By Don Irvine.   Former senior Obama adviser-turned-MSNBC-contributor David Axelrod appeared on Morning Joe on Wednesday, and said that the network’s coverage presents a “balanced picture” of the Chris Christie situation: Let [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly Here’s a recent article in Worcester magazine introducing readers to the incomparable American Antiquarian Society. It sounds like a museum of antiques, but it is actually the most extensive collection of American [...]

By Don Irvine. The New York Times Company reported earnings today, and while advertising revenues were down six percent from a year ago, it was good enough for CEO Mark Thompson to call it “the best quarterly performance in more than three [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Journalism has been called (perhaps aspirationally) as a “discipline of verification.” In their very useful book The Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel devote a chapter to arguing that journalism, [...]