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On Health Care Reform, Networks Highlight Perceived Setbacks Far More Than Progress: Report

Media Matters | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Networks, TV Networks, Health Care Reform, Media Matters, Health Care, Politics News

In their health care reform coverage, media have repeatedly given considerably more attention to perceived setbacks to progressive reform efforts than...

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Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health, Media Censorship, Max Baucus, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer System, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Healthcare, TV Networks, Media News
Isabel Macdonald

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

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"The 'Annual Inefficiency'"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Media, Entertainment, PIlot Season, Abc, Television, TV Pilots, Ceos, Tv, Nbc, Cbs, Television Pilots, TV Networks, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

Why do network presidents require their employees to dictate character adjustments, story fixes and, God help us, pitch jokes?

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Broadcast TV Struggling To Stay Viable

New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 03.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Major TV Networks, TV Networks, Big 4 Networks, Television, Broadcast TV, Media News

CBS, home to "60 Minutes," the "CSI" franchise, "Two and a Half Men" and the new hit crime drama "The Mentalist," is having a better year in prime tim...

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2008: Broadcasters' Very Bad Year

AP | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Nbc, Fox, Cbs, Television, Tv, Broadcast TV, TV Networks, Media News

NEW YORK — Broadcast TV's fall season is going so poorly that four out of five returning programs have a smaller audience than they had in 2007....

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Post-Election: Call it Decompression

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, Election Day, George W. Bush, Commentary, Keith Olbermann, Sarah Palin, Msnbc, Transition, Jonathan Alter, Katie Couric, Analysis, Newshour, Election 2008 Coverage, TV Networks, John McCain, New Deal, Defining Moment, Pbs, Network News, Joe Biden, Democrats, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Cnn, Bush Administration, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Jim Lehrer, Fox News, Republicans, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, 100 Days, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...

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Exit Polls and Early Election Calls Interfere with Our Democratic Process

Robert Kubey | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Projections, Exit Polls, Polling, Election Day, TV Networks, Election Results, Politics News
Robert Kubey

In my mind, it is simply wrong when the news media, and especially all the networks, "call the election" hours before the polls close in other states further west.

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Another Reason TV Networks Are Doomed: The Credit Crisis

Wired | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Tv Networks Doomed, Wall St Crisis Tv Networks, Wall Street, Wall St Crisis, TV Networks, Media News

The television networks are up against a perfect storm: Ratings stink; piracy is rampant, as viewers migrate to the web; and now, thanks to this littl...

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Major Networks Make Progress In Hiring Hispanics

Washington Post | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hispanics, Ugly Betty, Hiring Hispanics, America Ferrera, TV Networks, Media News

The TV season that brought Emmy honors to "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera also saw a rise in employment opportunities for Hispanics at the major net...

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TV Networks Suffer One Of Worst Weeks Ever

AP Via CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Nielsen Ratings, TV Networks, Media News

With many viewers apparently outside enjoying summer's last hurrah, the broadcast television networks hit a negative ratings trifecta only a few weeks...

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