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Great campaigning column from Rubén Rosario of the St Paul Pioneer Press…
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The golden age of CBS?
Back in 1968, the unskeptical tone reporters used to bridge the sound bites from a State Department briefing or a Nixon transition team news conference would have seemed like uncontroversial straight reporting. The same technologies applied today would look like stenography, even flackery, for government officialsSome fascinating stuff on CBS News‘ excellent Public Eye site…
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Excellent Slate piece on the NYT running…
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Much huffington and puffington over the FCC‘s decision to bury a report on media ownership. Burying reports is – of course – plain dumb. The report in question, from 2003, analyzed over 10,000 news stories from five years before. FCC economists found that “local ownership adds almost five and one-half minutes of local news” per…