The Media Drop

Earlier this week, Newsday’s Mark Harrington and James Madore wrote about the confirmation by the newspaper’s management that many “bulk sales,” that is, newspapers purchased by outside entities or individuals for distribution, usually free, were “secretly reimbursed” in a way to bypass audits and increase overall circulation.

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In yet another instance of statistics being made to say whatever someone wants them to, not what they really might be saying, the Wall Street Journal features “The Numbers Guy” column Friday, where Carl Bialik offers some background into the much ballyhooed “report” earlier this week about the estimations of how many PDAs, cellphones, and […]

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Memphis Business Journal’s Ed Hicks reported earlier this week about Air America Radio’s entrance into the Memphis market, smack dab in the middle of the so-called “Red States.” 680 AM is flipping from the call letters WJCE today to become “Talk 680″ under the letters WWTQ. Hicks notes that this is Air America’s […]

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While I don’t expect everyone in the media to pronounce everyone’s name correctly 100% of the time, it gets a little frustrating when 100% of the people in the media are pronouncing one athlete’s name wrong 100% of the time. This is the case with this past year’s media darling from the tennis world, […]

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Nebraska’s Papillion Times has a column Thursday by staffer Valerie Cutshall where she explains how getting involved in journalism has changed her life - literally. You see, Cutshall has a fear of public speaking and talking to people she doesn’t know personally, which creates an interesting situation when working at a newspaper.

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Well, the voting has opened for the Business Blogging Awards for 2005. So head on over and place your votes for your fave business industry -related blogs. I’m also proud to announce that TMD has made the cut in the “Best Media Blog” category.
Their voting page is here. Congratulations to all […]

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This post comes courtesy of my pal Notorious MiG, who has a bone to pick with Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim.
From the Sports Writers are Idiots File:
Notorious MiG was looking over the results from the Australian open when he came upon these comments from some fool named Jon Wertheim who has borrowed all of his Russian […]

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After what appears to be a huge amount of public response to the Hot 97 morning radio show’s “skit” [discussed here] mocking the deaths of people in southern Asia and India in December, it appears that the station has gone forward and suspended the show’s cast members, hiphopmusic.com’s Jay Smooth reports this morning. Jay […]

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In early January, KTAL-TV told Texarkana cable provider CableOne that it would have to pay $.30/subscriber per month in order to offer its channel to its customer base, which CableOne balked at. On Tuesday, the Shreveport Times‘ Andre Salvail reported that KTAL has put the screws to Cox Communications, who offers the station in […]

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Across the globe, there is a constant feeding frenzy for news and information - something the Internet has played a major part in creating and growing. In addition to online content, satellite television’s boom has made it easy for people outside of “target” markets for broadcasts to be reached - which is where companies […]

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