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Entries by Reese Schonfeld from 10/2012

September Cable News Viewing As Election Indicators

| Posted 10.03.2012 | Media
Read More: Headline News Ratings, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Mitt Romney, MSNBC Ratings, Cnn, President Obama, Cable News Ratings, CNN Ratings, Cable News, Election 2012, Foxnews, Presidential Debates, Election, Headline News, Media News

It's that time of the year when television viewing reflects the attitudes of people who are going to vote in November.

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Big Bird, Jim Lehrer, Richard Nixon and Me

| Posted 10.09.2012 | Media
Read More: Election 1972, Pbs, The 51st State, President Obama, Henry Loomis, Mitt Romney, Presidential Debates, Biltmore Hotel, James Ledbetter, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Jim Lehrer, Big Bird, Upitn, Thomas Curtis, Clay Whitehead, The White House, Ralph Rogers, Richard Nixon, The Great American Dream Machine, Wnet, Sesame Street, Robert Macneil, Sander Vanocur, Media News

Mitt Romney is not the first Republican to try to kill PBS, Sesame Street and Big Bird; forty years ago Richard Nixon tried to do the same thing.

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Ratings: Fox News, the Old Folks Network

| Posted 10.10.2012 | Media
Read More: Presidential Elections, Msnbc, Social Security, MSNBC Ratings, President Obama, Pew, Gallup, Election Polls, FoxNews Ratings, Mitt Romney, Cnn, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Cable News, Medicare, Foxnews, Paul Ryan, Media News

Based on last week's total numbers: Romney wins, but if you look at demographic numbers, Obama's still in front. So, I guess that I, like Gallup and Pew, think it's too early to put anybody clearly ahead.

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Turning Tragedy Into Talking Points

| Posted 10.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Richard Clarke, National Security, Condoleezza Rice, State Department, Darrel Issa, Coleen Rowley, President Obama, 9/11, Chris Stevens, Presidential Debates, President Biden, Clinton Administration, Al Qaeda, Republicans, National Guard, Politics News

The Democrats in Congress in 2001 stuck to the best American tradition--when tragedy strikes do not attack the other party. Congressman Issa and his friends have ignored that tradition, and are trying to turn Ambassador Stevens' death into an election talking point.

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Dan Senor: Talks Loudly, and Carries No Stick at All

| Posted 10.25.2012 | Politics
Read More: John Maccormac, Hungarian Revolution, John Foster Dulles, Herman Blumenfeld, United Nations, Mitt Romney Iranian Protests, Tehran, Iran, Budapest, Dan Senor, Radio Free Europe, The Green Revolution, Voice of America, Politics News

Dan Senor seems to advocate that the US take a tougher line with the Iranians, but is he willing to see American soldiers die fighting to free Iran from the Ayatollah? Dan Senor talks tough, but is he willing to put American troops where his mouth is?

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