Television
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The End of Network News as We Know It?
Posted by Ad Age on 28 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, CBS, NBC Universal, Television, Advertising, ABC News, CNBC, ABC
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By Brian Steinberg, Ad Age Decreases in ads and viewers mean change is in the air for big three. |
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Sunday Show Roundup: Towering Babble
Posted by MediaChannel on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Television, 08 Election, Talk Shows
How much substanceless absurdity and ridiculousness can be squeezed into this campaign before Tuesday’s big Pennsylvania Primary? Watch everybody cram like crazy in today’s Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.
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What’s News? Who Knows! Welcome to Print 2.0
Posted by The New York Observer on 16 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Television, Wall Street Journal
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By John Koblin, The New York Observer As editors feel an increasing crunch by speedier deadlines and “citizen journalists”, is the belt loosening for getting a story in the paper? |
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CBS Layoffs Signal A Financial Squeeze On TV Stations
Posted by LA Times on 09 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, CBS, Economics, Journalism, Television
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By Matea Gold and Meg James, LA Times The economic slowdown and migration of the audience to the Internet are taking their toll on staffing at the local level. |
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Afghanistan Moves To Censor TV
Posted by AP on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Middle East, Television, Afghanistan, Indecency, Censorship
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By Alisa Tang, AP Afghan lawmakers pass resolution aimed at censoring un-Islamic images on TV. |
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Enough With The Fake Controversies
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 27 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Television, 08 Election
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By Zachary Roth, Columbia Journalism Review Shaheen, Power, Ferraro stories are products of an endless news cycle. |
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Google Revives Push To Get Free Airwaves
Posted by LA Times on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Television, Google
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times The search giant has its eye on the ‘white spaces’ between TV broadcast channels. |
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Murdoch Marches Into Mideast
Posted by Variety.com on 14 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Television, Business
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By Ali Jaafar, Variety News Corp. is launching two English-language, free-to-air satcasters in the region this year in partnership with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal’s regional media titan Rotana. |
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Spitzer disappoints on tube, too
Posted by Daily News on 12 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Television
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By David Hinckley, Daily News For many years, television was a best friend to Eliot Spitzer. By yesterday evening, it had become his blood enemy. |
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At MSNBC, ‘Tucker’ Is Out, And David Gregory Is In
Posted by NY Times on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Politics, Journalism, Television, 08 Election, Talk Shows, MSNBC
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By Jacques Steinberg, NY Times “Tucker,” the struggling evening talk show was canceled by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory. |
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Onion News: FCC Okays Nudity On TV
Posted by MediaChannel on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Humor, FCC, Television, Gender
FCC spokesman Samuel Leslie appeared on Today Now! to discuss when it is appropriate for TV stations to air nudity.
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BBC Arabic TV news station to start competing with Al-Jazeera next week
Posted by The Canadian Press on 05 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Television, BBC, Al-Jazeera
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By The Canadian Press The British Broadcasting Corp. will launch an Arabic-language television news channel next week in a bid to challenge Al-Jazeera. |
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Al Jazeera: Code of Conduct on Satellite TV - Part I
Posted by MediaChannel on 03 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Media Freedom, Middle East, Television, 08 Election
In this week’s Listening Post, Richard Gizbert looks at constraints being imposed on satellite television in the Middle East and the new wave of television preachers gaining popularity across the region. View Part II here.
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Two thirds of Americans View Traditional Journalism as ‘Out of Touch’
Posted by IFocos on 29 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, New Media, Television
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By Andrew Nachison, IFocus Two thirds of Americans, 67%, believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows. |
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The Media’s Election
Posted by AlterNet on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Ownership, Commentary, Journalism, Television, 08 Election, Democracy
The major media plays a much bigger role in the formation of our national politics than most people realize.
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