News War
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Ringside At The Reality Show: New Kurtz Book Goes Behind The Scenes In The Anchor Wars
Posted by Huffington Post on 08 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, News War, Television
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By Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post There’s been barely a whisper leading up to Howard Kurtz’s new book, Reality Show: Inside The Last Great Television News War. It chronicles the saga of the latest - and possibly last - generation of Big Three Anchors: Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, and Katie Couric. |
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Doubts Raised On Magazine’s ‘Baghdad Diarist’
Posted by NY Times on 24 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, Ethics, News War, Journalism, Middle East
Why A Free Press? : For Newspapers, iPhone A Wakeup Call
Posted by Tucson Citizen on 16 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Technology, News War, Media Freedom, Advertising, Newspapers, Business, Pop Culture, Alternative Press
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By Mark B. Evans, Tucson Citizen Lost in the hype and hoopla over the iPhone the past two weeks was what the device means for newspapers. |
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China Shuts Down Web Site Popular With Western NGOs
Posted by Middle East Times on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Asia, CN, News War, New Media
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Middle East Times Chinese police have shut down a Beijing-based Internet news site that counted the World Bank, UN agencies, and a host of foreign aid groups as clients. |
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The Video That Got Amy Fired: Her Side Of The Story
Posted by Chicago Sun-Times on 11 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Ownership, NBC Universal, Ethics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, Newspapers
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By Robert Feder, Chicago Sun-Times. NBC5’s Jacobson didn’t think ‘lapse in judgment’ would result in her termination. ‘I’m devastated’ |
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Mainstream Media Where Are You?
Posted by CommonDreams.org on 09 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Ownership, North America, US, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Television, Iraq War, Activism, Newspapers, Education, Alternative Press
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By Paul Buchheit, Commondreams.org It is understandable that today’s youth, with so many entertainment options and electronic distractions can’t be sufficiently aware of world issues. But they simply don’t get enough information from the mainstream press. If they hear at all about controversial issues, the information is oversimplified, incomplete, and often one-sided. |
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Media Savvy: In The Field Of Journalism, Fark.com Finds The Fertilizer
Posted by The Sacramento Bee on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Fox News, CNN, US, Blogs, Politics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Pop Culture, Books, Alternative Press
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By Sam McMannis, The Sacramento Bee From both a media and an entrepreneurial perspective, the rapid evolution of Fark.com is as dizzying as it is impressive. |
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Federal Judge Dismisses NYT’s Freedom Of Information Lawsuit
Posted by AP on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, US, New York Times, Ethics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, Policy, Newspapers, Security, Democracy
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AP A federal judge has dismissed a New York Times lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice. |
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Why I Said ‘No’ To Paris Hilton Mania
Posted by The Observer on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ethics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, Television, Cable, Pop Culture, Talk Shows, MSNBC
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The Observer America cheered as Mika Brzezinski shredded her script in anger at the fanfare for the celebrity heiress. She tells Paul Harris she has no regrets. |
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Murdoch Reaches Out For Even More
Posted by NY Times on 25 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Ownership, News Corp, Europe, USGOP, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Economics, Technology, New York Times, Ethics, News War, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Policy, Middle East, Television, World Press, Iraq War, Advertising, Telecommunications, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Business
| By Jo Becker, NY Times Rupert Murdoch’s vast media holdings give him a gamut of tools to enhance his financial interests and establish his legitimacy in the United States. |
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Fox News Gives Iraq War Less Attention
Posted by AP on 11 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, Fox News, CNN, NBC Universal, News War, Journalism, Middle East, Television, Iraq War
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By David Bauder, AP When bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report. Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour. |
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Frontline’s News War Series
Posted by MediaChannel on 15 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Media Savvy, US, Politics, News War
PBS’ News War hits the Internet with a free screening; will the Internet hit back? Tell us what you thought of the Frontline documentary about the media.
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