The Media Drop

Earlier today, Gallup released poll results about people’s trust and confidence in the media. The good news is that it’s higher than it was at this time last year - though only slightly. The bad news is that it’s still a few percentage points lower than it had been for the previous couple of years.
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In what might be the most amusing thing I’ve seen this week (last week’s is here), it looks like self-publishing firm Lulu.com has created something very novel - though a bit pricey - to do with the rejection letters that pretty much anyone attempting to get their works printed has gotten at some point. That’s […]

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About a month ago, TMD learned about a segment about U.S. nuclear facilities that was supposed to run earlier this month on ABC News’ “20/20″ program - part of a story that allegedly included interns from the network’s news division who attended various tours at nuclear plants, without ever disclosing that they were there as […]

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Last week, Joe Jaffe wrote about how ESPN’s television programming might be reaching the end of the line - in line extension, that is. You know, like when you’re in the grocery store, and you see the “new innovation” by your favorite pickle maker, and wonder what the heck they were thinking. It’s more akin […]

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Just read over at Lost Remote that PR Newswire has (finally) gotten up to speed with regard to its RSS feeds. Intead of just one fire hydrant-hookup RSS feed with the last (n) press releases, you can now subscribe to a number of nifty feeds broken up by news type, industry, or drill down within […]

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Okay, so our pals over at Pegasus News are about to get the ball rolling on their news service, which will roll out in Dallas-Fort Worth on February 14, 2006. If you’re interested in what kind of service this will be, and would like to see it pop up in your market - or one […]

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If anyone was wondering what would happen to the “rest of us” who aren’t paying for the behind the wall op-eds and such at the NYT, this is probably a good example. People will end up not linking to the original works, but linking to the people who have digested and commented on those works, […]

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On Tuesday, a memorial service was held at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, who passed away in early August from lung cancer - an event that allowed for the public to attend if they were able to get one of the 800-someodd tickets that were made available. By checking […]

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The Los Angeles Times‘ Cynthia Cho writes about how the world of politics has entered the world of podcasting - perhaps in a big way. Between columnists and commentarists doing their thing, and politicians themselves putting out their opinions and speeches, they’ve taken advantage of reaching out to a population that doesn’t necessarily have the […]

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I don’t know how I managed to miss the fact that you could get your Google News alerts through RSS instead, but I did. Needless to say, I did it with the date-specific option on (relevance is fine and all, but dates are much more important when reading), and have since dropped them all from […]

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