The Media Drop

FindLaw’s Julie Hilden says that bloggers should receive the same protections that traditional journalists do.

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A study by the Missouri School of Journalism’s Center for Advanced Social Research turned up some tidbits about how people perceive the media as a whole. Specific feedback on credibility, bias, and general “nosiness” are all part of the study.

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Funny: Am I the only one who hasn’t heard the Ft. Worth Star Telegram called the “Startlegram?”
Anyway, check out the Dallas Observer’s Jim Schutze taking a look at the latest fun and excitement at Belo’s Dallas Morning News after the publisher was hit with a subpoena to look into fraud charges.

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The more I hear about “crackdowns” on media indecency, the more I believe we are headed to a very scary place as Americans. What pushed me over the edge on a personal level in this issue was last Fall’s Saving Private Ryan debacle wherein a stack of ABC affiliates refused to run the film “because […]

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Sue me, bash me, whatever me, but I officially believe that folks who vote for American Idol winners have exactly ZERO sense about music and what an artist should be like. The fact that Constantine Maroulis has just been voted off while Scott Savol and Anthony Fedorov continue to suck it up week after week […]

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Just read over at Droxy that XM has scored before injury time with their exclusive coverage of next year’s FIFA World Cup in Germany.

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Rebecca MacKinnon is looking for thoughts, suggestions, and comments on her upcoming session on Global Voices at the BlogNashville event, coming up May 5-7 in Nashville, TN. Let’s help Rebecca out with some ideas on things we’d like to have be part of the discussion, points you’d like to her to expand upon, or things […]

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Starting next Wednesday, May 3, visitors to the New York Post website will “launch” registration to view its content. It’s unclear whether all content will require registration to be seen.
[via PaidContent]

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Talker Laura Ingraham, who learned just last Friday that she had breast cancer, had an operation on Tuesday to treat the disease.
TMD wishes Ms. Ingraham all the best for a full recovery.

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When is bad news not considered good news just because it’s news at all? Probably when you’re a major software and hardware player and the producer of one of the hotter technological “toys” to hit the market in recent years - like Apple.
The San Jose Mercury News’s Dawn Chmielewski reports Friday that Apple stores […]

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