The Media Drop

Earlier this week, there was a lot of talk about the CBS’ programming surrounding President Clinton’s new book, “My Life.” The controversy began when it was pointed out by RatherBiased.com that CBS’ website had links to Amazon.com where readers could click through and purchase the book, earning money for the network with every book […]

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Well, the time has come for me to take a few days for vacation. I’ll be away for about a week, with sporadic updates coming for the site as I get access to the Internet.
Feel free to e-mail me with updates on anything you think is a good heads-up, as I will probably feel […]

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Fritz Quindt of The Sporting News writes what amounts to be an unfortunate criticism of local television news….unfortunate in the sense of what it means for the sports fan.

Sportscast symbolically succumbed May 27 — the date Warner Wolf, an anchor credited with originating the modern “Let’s go to the videotape” art, was discharged by the […]

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Radio Ink reports that Viacom’s Infinity Broadcasting has dropped Arbitron for market and ratings information and chosen to work with The Media Audit as of July 1st.

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Bloglines founder Mark Fletcher points out that the feed aggregator has been named one of Time mag’s “50 Coolest Websites” since they did this list a year ago.
While Fletcher is “shrieking like a little girl,” as his post states, I’ll go a bit further and point out that not only is Bloglines on the list […]

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Alice Marshall from TechnoFlak writes in the comments here that CMP has stated that they are not blocking Google News from scraping their sites (as widely reported yesterday) for items to add to their service, and that it was some sort of mistake or oddity.
Dan Gillmor has more, including a note from a CMP editor […]

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Newsdesigner.com relays some staffing movements at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, including reassigning some writers and getting rid of the paper’s whole online team in advance of design changes to take place later on this year.

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The Star-Ledger’s Josh Margolin has an article in yesterday’s paper describing how some radio stations in New Jersey have altered their approach to talk shows and on-air banter in order to stay within the limits the FCC has vaguely set for them.
The main example is that of Mary Walter, who is the host for the […]

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Yesterday afternoon, Wonkette informed us that Vice President Dick Cheney had some not-so-nice things to say to Vermont Senator Pat Leahy this past Tuesday.
In today’s Washington Post, an article entitled “Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity” lays out exactly what happened on the floor of the Senate. According to authors Helen Dewar and Dana […]

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Earlier this week, the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman wrote a piece about movies that have come out prior to an election with the hope “to swing the vote.”

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