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Frank Rich sees the future…
NYT columnist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the ‘bloviators’ covering the Obama campaign. But in the course of his musings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. : Journalists are still Americans — even if much of our audience doubts that — and in this time of grave…
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Can You Trust The Media? – Mistakes and corrections
The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has – alas – been on the backburner (too busy). So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].
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Two views on TV news
I had a chance to look over the memo from ITN’s Dave Mannion on the return of News At Ten. Without repeating it in full, it offers important insights into the thinking of one of Britain’s best television journalists. We have been given a prime time slot. Our job is not simply to split the…