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Why people read newspapers
Check out the Indy explaining why people read newspapers. They quote Mark Gallagher, press director at media strategists Manning Gottlieb OMD. Seems like a decent chap. Media strategist, though? What is Manning Gottlieb and why are they with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark? Ah, they buy ad space. Not so much strategists in the classic…
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Interview technique…
Clip from a phone interview with NewsHour legend Jim Lehrer where he recounts a recurring nightmare in which he is interviewing a prominent politician: Lehrer: “Senator, should we send grain to Cuba?”Senator: “Yes, but first we should bomb Havana.”Lehrer: “What kind of grain?” Very nice…
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Reporting Iraq
There is an information war going on in the Middle East, besides the real, bloody one. It is conducted through media monitoring and also through bloggers interested in discrediting the few media organizations conducting independent journalism there. Occasionally it rears its ugly head, and occasionally it claims a scalp – justifiably in the case of…
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Bashir un-bashed
News emerges, via veteran U.S. TV writer Tom Shales, of Martin Bashir. In case you’d forgotten, he’s on the post-Ted Koppel Nightline, which airs on ABC (imagine the post-Jon Snow Channel 4 News). Shales notes that: Nightline has survived its initial case of post-Koppel stress disorder and emerged a solid, ambitious news broadcast, one that…