The Media Drop

In what will definitely go down as a huge media blunder for the year, the coverage of last night’s “rescue” of 12 miners from a West Virginia coal mine is “tragically on display,” News.com’s Scott Ard informs - and will be forever, most likely. In case you haven’t heard about this, there were reports on […]

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The Free Press of Namibia has a column Friday that points out a difference between the American media’s coverage of the latest audiotape believed to be from Osama bin Laden and the differing focus by the Arab media. While it is not surprising that there would be a variance in view in general between […]

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Television-Network News

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Brian Stelter over at TVNewser posts Tuesday about the training that CNN sports correspondents have gone through in preparation for their time covering the Olympics in Athens, Greece. According to a report from the UK’s Independent, CNNers have gone through what is referred to as extensive ‘hostile environment’ training, which included what to do […]

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Television-Cable News

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Newspapers-Ethics

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Television-Network News

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CableNewser’s Brian Stelter gets an email from a FOX News staffer who claims that reporting the news in an unbiased way is not the manner in which things are done at the network. We’re not talking about the hosted talk shows now - this is the news reporting itself.

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The Los Angeles Times‘ Tim Rutten asks a question about how the media will be viewed when they cover this year’s presidential elections in a piece entitled “How far will media slide into partisanship?” Since election years typically bring a lot of viewers to television, radio and print news, we can expect viewers to […]

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The National Review posts an excerpt today from L. Brent Bozell III’s new book, Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media.
So we’re back to the bias issue, on which Bozell makes some very solid points that I wholeheartedly agree with. Some on the left do claim that there […]

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