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On Friday, the Associated Press sent out a report, based on a study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, claiming a pro-Obama bias in U.S. network news coverage of the presidential election. I'm not so sure about the study's methodology. From AP via TheStar.com (posted Oct. 31): Comments made by sources, voters, reporters [...]
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NYT public editor Clark Hoyt thinks the U.S. news media might be getting a tad presumptive about the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election. From the NYT: The Times and other news media got burned once before this year, in the New Hampshire primary. The coverage, reflecting respected polls and what reporters thought they saw on [...]
Sun, November 2 2008 » Main Page, Media, politics » 2 Comments
This is an interesting observation in a David Carr column: “The auto industry and the print industry have essentially the same problem,” said Clay Shirky, the author of “Here Comes Everybody.” “The older customers like the older products and the new customers like the new ones.” More from the Oct. 28 NYT column: For readers, [...]
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The U.S. critic A.J. Liebling once wrote that newspapers are “the weak slat under the bed of democracy.” Toronto Star public editor Kathy English also agrees with this statement by Liebling: “I am an incorrigible optimist about newspapers” — a view she holds despite the ongoing financial difficulties in which newspapers find themselves. From the [...]