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WATCH: O’Reilly Apologizes For On Air Spat With Alan Colmes
Chad Sinclair | March 7th, 2013
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly apologized on Wednesday for his blow up with liberal commentator Alan Colmes. On Tuesday, O’Reilly called Colmes a liar several times during a segment about President Obama’s budgetary policy.
Beyond Andrew Sullivan: Journalists and the Race for Self-Promotion
Howard Kurtz | January 10th, 2013
When blogger Andrew Sullivan began urging readers to support his online venture, I could hear journalists everywhere slapping their foreheads and saying:
Hey, why don’t I try that?
Lots o’ luck.
But all the chatter about whether Sullivan can get his followers to part with $19.99 a year to read his provocative posts on politics and life misses the larger point. He is doing what most journalists must do to survive in this digital age, and that is building a personal brand.
What The Media Missed About The Jewish Vote
Ben Jacobs | November 30th, 2012
Miami Herald
For months before the election, media outlets were trumpeting Republican efforts to woo Jewish voters away from Barack Obama in swing states. It was believed that Jewish voters in key swing states like Ohio and Florida would break for Romney because doubts on Obama’s Israel policy. This didn’t happen. Although Obama’s share of the Jewish vote fell this year, he still won nearly 70% of Jewish-Americans who turned out on Election Day. Obama’s win produced yet another wave of media skepticism about the GOP’s Jewish outreach. After all, Republican efforts to woo the Jewish vote are a perennial story every election cycle and seem to never succeed. But, on second look, it seems Republicans did actually make significant inroads in the Jewish vote . . . just not in a swing state.
WATCH: Jill Kelley’s Brother Speaks
Robert Partyka | November 13th, 2012
via MSNBC
On NBC’s Today this morning, Jill Kelley’s brother David Khawam spoke about his sister and her relationship with former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus. He stressed that she was nothing more than a close friend to Petraeus, and that she is a loving mother of her three children. Khawam insisted that allegations of an affair between his sister and Petraeus are “ludicrous,” and should not be taken seriously. Kelley was first linked to the scandal when she reported receiving threatening emails from an anonymous source involving her friendship with Petraeus. The source of the emails was turned out to be Paula Broadwell, who was having an affair with Petraeus, the revelation of which led to his resignation last week.
The Media Go To War As Well
Jim Moore | November 10th, 2012
Veterans Day is a bittersweet time for many of America’s journalists and news organizations. As it should be, the primary coverage this weekend will focus on the more than 43 million men and women who have served the nation in uniform.
Print, broadcast and online media will publish stories, take pictures, shoot video and tweet 140-character messages commemorating the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918 when the guns of The War To End All Wars were silenced. And that’s a good thing. It never hurts to remind the public—increasingly insulated by sheer numbers from having direct family, job, or community contact with anyone who serves or has served in the military—of just who has done the heavy lifting to protect all that we have from those who wanted to take it all away from us.
But the story–and part of Veterans Day–is also about the media.
LOOK: Election Memes Circulate Internet
Robert Partyka | November 9th, 2012
With Barack Obama’s win on Tuesday, the variety of memes, tumblrs and webpages expressing liberal schadenfreude over Romney’s defeat has nearly overwhelmed the Internet. In fact, there’s even been an entire gleeful tumblr devoted to White People Mourning Mitt Romney. The Daily Download has gone through all of these and found some of the best examples:
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The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Scoops The Press
April 5th, 2013The monthly job numbers always set off a media frenzy. But what happens when the government scoops the media?
For years, there has been ferocious competition between news services like Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters to be the first to report the monthly job numbers, which are released at 8:30 AM on the first Friday of every month. These numbers heavily influence markets and, with the rise of high frequency trading, an advantage of seconds can mean millions of dollars. This month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the government agency that releases the employment numbers, beat everyone and tweeted the job numbers at 8:30:01.
The result beat everyone—including Bloomberg, which was embarrassingly late coming in at 8:30:03 (although a Bloomberg spokesman insisted to Quartz that the company’s terminals had the numbers just milliseconds later than the BLS). Other news organizations followed over the next few seconds.
Cleveland Plain Dealer To Deliver Only Three Days A Week
April 5th, 2013Advance Publications is the Taliban of American journalism. The only difference is instead of desecrating Buddhas, the Newhouse family is destroying newspapers.
The latest casualty is the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Advance Publications announced on Friday that although the Plain Dealer will still be printed seven days a week, home delivery would only be available three of those days. It’s an improvement over what Advance Publications has done to some of its other properties like the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Harrisburg Patriot News and the Syracuse Post-Standard, where the entire paper is published three days a week but it’s a bad sign as the Newhouse family tries to slowly divest itself from the news business.
As Ryan Chittum describes in his feature for the Columbia Journalism Review on the Times-Picayune, this seems to be a concerted strategy to bleed as much profit as possible from the papers:
It’s hard to imagine a lucrative future for NOLA.com once the print edition inevitably slides into the red. But consider this: If they sold the paper right now, the Newhouses probably would get less than $40 million for it, based on the earnings multiples of recent newspaper sales. By radically slashing costs, as they have done—perhaps by as much as $25 million—the company can earn that amount in a couple of years thanks to higher profit margins. Anything beyond that is gravy.
WATCH: Jeremy Irons Worries Gay Marriage Will Lead To ‘Fathers Marrying Sons’
April 5th, 2013In an interview with Huff Post Live, Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons said that he is concerned that gay marriage could somehow lead to incestuous relationships between fathers and sons. “It seems to me that now we’re fighting for the name, and I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is,” Irons said. “I just worry about that. I mean tax-wise it’s an interesting one, because, you see, could a father not marry his son?”
Will Buzzfeed Save The Republican Party?
April 5th, 2013After looking to leaders ranging from Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, the Republican Party has found a new savior, Ben Smith.
As Brian Fung from National Journal reported yesterday, the National Republican Congressional Committee is revamping its website to be more like Buzzfeed, the viral news website that Smith edits. This doesn’t mean that it’s adding more cat listicles, instead the NRCC is trying to create more viral content and keep visitors to its website engaged longer.
As Fung describes:
“BuzzFeed’s eating everyone’s lunch,” said NRCC spokesman Gerrit Lansing. “They’re making people want to read and be cognizant of politics in a different way.”
The committee spent hours poring over BuzzFeed’s site map and layout, studying how readers arrived at its landing pages and bounced from one article to the next. Unsurprisingly, a ton of traffic came from social media — but a lot of it also seemed to come from the site’s sidebar, said Lansing. So the NRCC’s redesign includes a list of recent and popular posts.
WATCH: Gun Rights Activist to Chris Matthews: ‘We Don’t Trust People Like You’
April 5th, 2013MSNBC host Chris Matthews battled back and forth over new federal gun control legislation in an explosive interview on Thursday with Larry Pratt, the executive director of the Gun Owners of America, a gun rights group that finds the NRA too moderate. Pratt said, “We think the country would be better off without any background check.” To which Matthews later replied, “There’s something really ideological about this, because it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
