Monitoring the maverick: journalists shouldn't allow
themselves to be blinded by outdated images of John McCain.(FULL COURT
PRES
When Sen. John McCain referred to the press as his
"base," he was joking--right?
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The notion that the news media are crazy about McCain was around
for years before anyone . . .
When excellence produced excellence.('The Place to Be:
Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News')(Book
review)
The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television
News
By Roger Mudd
Public Affairs
400 pages; $27.95
On March 30,1964, CBS News began an ambitious project that . . .
Country for political junkies.
Former "Scarborough Country" host Joe Scarborough's
"Morning Joe" takes a less scripted approach to morning
television than its competitors. The MSNBC program's freewheeling
format features . . .
The Hotline.(DROP CAP)(Brief article)
"If He Can't Face Lynn Sweet, How Can He Face Al-Qaeda?"
--The Hotline, on Barack Obama's retreat from tough questioning by the
Chicago Sun-Times' Sweet and other reporters
"I need to know the . . .
Moving the goalposts.(Cliche Corner Hustings Trifecta!!!)(Brief
article)
"Keep moving the goalpost is how the Obama campaign describes it."
(ABC's Terry Moran)
"Senator Clinton's apparent moving of the goalposts with her claim that
she's just getting warmed up, a . . .
Enough is enough: shortsighted cutbacks pose a serious threat to
the future of newspapers.(THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS)
Newspapers are cutting back. Newsroom layoffs are widespread. News
space has shrunk as newspapers consolidate sections and eliminate
customary features. Circulation, on the wane since the late . . .
Liberation journalism: a veteran editor says farewell to the
world of dailies and finds happiness running a weekly in the home o
This was different.
There were 600 newspaper people at the New York Press Association
conference in Saratoga Springs in April 2006, ages 18 to 80, all races,
men, women, straight, gay--whatever . . .
When heart isn't enough: the Albuquerque Tribune took names
and kicked up the dust, but still couldn't survive.(FIRST
PERSON)
The obits were predictable when the Albuquerque Tribune crashed on
February 23, age 86. A paper whose 1993 revelations of Cold War-era
plutonium experiments on people won a Pulitzer Prize for . . .
Kumbaya.(Cliche Corner Hustings Trifecta!!!)(Brief
article)
"Both Senators Obama and Clinton offer a two-pronged feel-good platform
on foreign policy: They would pull American troops out of Iraq, and they
would restore America's standing in the world. Nice, . . .
A truly generous dude.(Winning Line)
Florida Man Hopes To Donate 3rd Kidney
(Orlando's wesh.com)
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End of story: saying farewell to the world of journalism.(ABOVE
THE FOLD)
Thank you, Bill Burleigh. You were managing editor of the
Evansville Press in Indiana when I was maybe 14 and wrote you to say the
only thing that could possibly make your weekly teen page better . . .
Second-mover advantage: when launching online products, listening
to the audience is more important than speed.(THE ONLINE
FRONT
Here's a pat on the shoulder for media managers who are in a
twist because they don't have the new products everyone's
talking about. They haven't yet launched an online city guide,
aren't sending . . .
Maybe it is time to panic: why news organizations have to act
much more boldly if they are to survive.
Two dozen journalists from a national magazine have gathered to
discuss their future and how to prepare. They seem somewhat anxious and
uneasy, but what most intrigues me is where they focus their . . .
Firewall.(Cliche Corner Hustings Trifecta!!!)
"Sen. Clinton, however, had viewed Texas and Ohio as her firewall
against his momentum-building march through 11 straight primary contests
before Tuesday's primaries."
(Chattanooga Times Free . . .
Diet police alert.(Winning Line)(Brief article)
Louisville under food watch
(Louisville's courier-journal.com, over a story about a flood
watch)
AJR offers $25 or a one-year subscription (indicate preference) for
submissions used in Take 2. . . .
Confronting the future.(Newspaper publishing's
trends)(Letter to the editor)
Regarding the stories "Maybe It Is Time to Panic" and
"Enough Is Enough" in the April/May issue, it's patently
obvious how to stop the slide of newspapers into oblivion: Torch your
Web sites. Burn . . .
Why journalism matters: at a time of gloom and doom in the
business, the new Newseum reinforces its importance.(BROADCAST
VIEWS)
Cramped and hard to find: That's my memory of the Freedom
Forum's old Newseum in Roselyn, Virginia, which closed more than
six years ago. Its successor couldn't be more different: a $435
million . . .
Off target: why is the media consensus so often wrong about
political campaigns? And isn't there a better way to cover
elections
Every presidential campaign of recent memory has produced its share
of Dewey-Defeats-Truman press embarrassments, but Campaign '08 has
been particularly rich in bogus media narratives. Ever since . . .
Taking Root: a new Web site provides serious news and
commentary--and genealogy--to the black community.(DROP
CAP)(Interview)
Reporter Sam Fulwood III of Cleveland's Plain Dealer knows the
journalism business--he got his first job at the Charlotte Observer
straight out of college, logged 11 years at the Washington bureau . . .
Foreign affairs: as established news organizations cut back on
international reporting, a new Web site aims to cover the world.(
Millionaire friends and waterfront property are involved, but
we're not talking lavish American affairs a la Gatsby.
We're talking foreign affairs a la Philip Balboni and Global
News Enterprises, . . .
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