The Media Drop

According to a study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, journalists are very concerned that internal financial pressures at media companies have negative effects on how news is covered. The AP’s Will Lester reports that concern on behalf of journalists covering local news has almost doubled when it comes […]

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The Baltimore Sun’s Mary Gail Hare covered yesterday’s commencement at Maryland’s McDaniel College, where the speaker of note was Jim Lehrer, host of PBS’ NewsHour. Lehrer and his wife gave students some ideals to live and work by, closing with “Finally, I am not in the entertainment business.” Hopefully those words - and […]

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The New York Post reports today that men’s magazine Maxim is looking to add some audio to it’s visual. They’re apparently in discussions with XM and Sirius to offer a whole channel’s worth of content to customers of one or both of the networks.
The article, of course, turns into a discussion about the merits […]

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Thanks to the fine (and bright!) folks at Ping-o-Matic!, you can now replace that long list of blog ping sites with just one - http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ - that’s it!
Super helpful, and will hopefully cut down on the ones that bounce back or timeout. Make their counter rise over at the site - it’s […]

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NUVO’s Harry Cheese sits down with “Survivor” fan favorite Rupert, who was the winner of the “Survivor All-Stars” bonus prize of $1 million to the player who received the most votes from fans of the show who voted, “American Idol” style. As NUVO’s site says, “If you want to know Indianapolis, you have to […]

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Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix writes about the amount of coverage the war in Iraq has garnered on television news outlets, and “that it crowds out other news” from being reported. While many would agree that the news media doesn’t always make the right choice on what “the people” want to see, one […]

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