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The Whitehall Press Corps
Two different views of yesterday’s Blair-Bush presser, care of Media Matters: Long live the British press! In contrast to the small-bore questions that American reporters posed to President Bush yesterday about his Iraq policy, two British journalists cut right to the central issue of the president’s credibility… WaPo‘s Daniel Froomkin bigs up Nick Robinson and…
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Ultra-local news
Frank Ahrens from the WaPo blogs on his Future of Newspapering piece, profiling Gannett‘s operation in Fort Myers. The hero of Ahrens’ piece is Chuck Myron, and after the hype, I thought it might be instructive to see some of the stuff Chuck is – well – chucking out… Sisters come from Maine to watch…
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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…