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Jon Meacham: Fox News Attack Makes Obama Seem More Progressive Than He Really Is

Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Obama, Media, #Newsweek, Roger Ailes, Tv, Television, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Meacham, TV News, Fox, John McCain, Media News

To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back--all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am no...

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Can You Really Get the "News" From Watching TV?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: TV News, Corporate Media, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
John W. Whitehead

Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society.

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The Balloon Man Should Have Used a Puppy?

Jason Salzman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Protests, Richard Heene, Reality TV, Falcon Heene, TV News, Puppy, Media Hoaxes, Balloon Boy, Denver News
Jason Salzman

It might have been smarter for the media-crazed Heene to have simply threatened to send a puppy up in his balloon, and you can bet he'd have gotten a lot of media attention.

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What's the Role of Fiction In a World Gone Completely Berserk?

John Eskow | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Andy Kauffman, Local Tv News, TV News, Chuck Grassley, Glenn Beck, State of the News Media, Tv News Fiction, Media News
John Eskow

Let's take a measured step back and check out the off-the-charts Madness Quotient in just one recent episode of the nightly news.

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Enough With the David Letterman Hoopla Already!

Annie Stamell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Billy Crudup, John Edwards, Media Criticism, Stargate Universe, TV News, Roman Polanski, David Letterman, Entertainment News
Annie Stamell

Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...

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Obama Salutes Walter Cronkite At Memorial Service

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Broadcast News, TV News, Cronkite Memorial, Jimmy Buffet, Obama, Cbs, Cronkite, New York, Clinton, Television, Walter Cronkite, Marsalis, Tv, Obama Speech, Wynton Marsalis, Media News

NEW YORK — By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service. All that wa...

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The New Walter

Lee Schneider | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Natalie Portman, Harrison Ford, Miley Cyrus, TV News, Ellen Degeneres, Walter Cronkite, Journalist, Twitter, Jeff Goldblum, Propublica, Walter Cronkite Dead, Media News
Lee Schneider

Now that everybody's got their own mic, you have to fact check everybody. You need to know their motivations and who's paying them. You have to be your own Walter.

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Open Letter to the Next Generation of Cronkites

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: News Anchors, Anchorman, Youth Radio, TV News, Network News, Walter Cronkite, Ellin O'Leary, CBS News, Digital Journalism, Youthradio, Cbs, Journalism, CBS Evening News, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

As we embrace Twitter and the blog, we must also be committed to forging a new pathway to the truth and the hard work of uncovering the information necessary to sustain a healthy democracy.

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Iconomania: Michael, Walter and Nelson

Danny Schechter | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite Dead, Nelson Mandela, Hero Worship, TV News, Media News
Danny Schechter

What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.

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Local TV News Squeezed By Plunging Profits

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: TV News, Local Tv News, Local News, Media News

Plummeting profits are forcing local TV news operations to scramble for new business models. Starting Monday in Chicago, four stations' news departmen...

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Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman

Rob Morrison | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: News Anchors, Television, TV News, Acting, Unemployment, Entertainment News
Rob Morrison

One of the beautiful things about being "in between jobs" is you have plenty of time to try new things.

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Chicago Television News Stations To Share News And Video Resources

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 06.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: TV News, Wmaq, Wfld, Chicago TV News, Wbbm, Chicago News, Wgn, Chicago News

Four Chicago television stations are expected later today to announce they soon will be sharing newsgathering resources at general news events, source...

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Presumed Innocent? Bernie Madoff?

Dan Abrams | Posted 04.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Dan Abrams, TV News, Criminal Justice System, Jury Trials, TV Legal Analysts, Criminal Justice, Media, OJ Simpson, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Media News
Dan Abrams

People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. "What happened to the presumption of innocence?" they ask at almost every turn. Well, I'm tired of it.

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Obama Lunches With TV Anchors

New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: TV News, Obama Lunch, George Stephanopoulos, TV Anchors, Katie Couric, Barack Obama, Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams, Media News

President Obama had a few lunch guests over to the White House on Tuesday to offer a preview of the evening speech he will be delivering to a joint se...

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AP: Did TV News Miss Point In Covering Stimulus Plan?

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Dick Morris, Tv News Stimulus Debate, Karl Rove, Laura Ingraham, Cable News Stimulus Debate, TV News, James Carville, Cable News, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Debate Bias, Stimulus Debate, Media News

NEW YORK — There were plenty of familiar faces on-screen during TV coverage of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, people like Jame...

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Walters On TV News' Future: Only Programs 10 Years From Now Will Be The "Morning Shows"

Reuters | Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Kroft, Evening News, TV News, Evening TV News, 60 Minutes, Barbara Walters, Media News

A lot has changed in the "big get" TV interview business since ABC's Barbara Walters and "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft began. While the per...

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Are we all to Blame for the Rise of the Crazy Octuplet Mom?

Eric Deggans | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Multiple Births, Welfare, Dateline NBC, In Vitro Fertilization, Ann Curry, Newsmagazines, Octuplets, NBC News, Angelina Jolie, Nadya Suleman, TV News, Media, Nadya Suleman Angelina Jolie, Nadya Suleman Plastic Surgery, Media News
Eric Deggans

The worst irony may be that those of us clucking over her excesses also help feed the frenzy of attention that will allow her to cash in on her horribly pathological choices.

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CBS Can't Die

Ed Madison | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

Read More: I Love Lucy, Tribune Company, TV News, The Honeymooners, All in the Family, Media, Cbs, Edward R. Murrow, Television, Mtv, Walter Cronkite, Dukes of Hazard, Sumner Redstone, CBS News, Beverly Hillbilllies, Media News, Viacom, Nickelodeon, Media News
Ed Madison

Years earlier, right out of college, I was hired to join the team that launched CNN. Visionary Ted Turner had this crazy notion that people would want to watch 24 hours of non-stop news.

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The World's First Privatized City

Avi Lewis | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Arabic, Al Jazeera English, TV News, Al Jazeera, Media News
Avi Lewis

"American-style capitalism" is having its worst public relations month ever, and the world is questioning the excesses of free-market orthodoxy in the wake of financial meltdown.

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America Finally Gets a Presidential Debate, Because Candidates Gave Them One

Eric Deggans | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bob Schieffer, Debate, Barack Obama, Joe the Plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, TV News, Media, John McCain, Presidential Debates, Politics News
Eric Deggans

I was surprised by the snap polls from CBS and CNN showing a big win for Obama. I don't think McCain ran the table like he wanted, but he did raise his rhetorical game.

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How MSNBC Can Rule Cable News

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Tim Russert Replacement, Reality TV, Meet the Press, Cable, Talking Heads, Prison Shows, Rachel Maddow, Cable Tv, Msnbc News, TV News, Keith Olbermann, Cable News, Nbc, Media News
Stephen C. Rose

If I were to walk the mile from where I live to the studio and take the reins, I would at least threaten to cut out the tongue of any TV host who dares interrupt anyone else.

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TV remains top source of news even as online grows

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media

Read More: TV News, Online News, Newspapers, News Consumption, Media News

NEW YORK — Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news i...

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New Yorker: Is Keith Olbermann Changing TV News?

New Yorker | Peter J. Boyer | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: New Yorker, New Yorker Olbermann Profile, Msnbc, New Yorker Olbermann, TV News, Keith Olbermann, Tv News Olbermann, Media News

On the heels of last week's Keith Olbermann backlash, the New Yorker's Peter Boyer examines whether "angry" Olbermann is the future of TV news. The a...

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The World's Most Dangerous Job: TV Reporter

Huffington Post | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

Read More: TV Reporters, Video, TV News, Media News

The perils of TV news are many — sound problems, broken satellite links, getting smacked around by an angry wrestler or clipped in the head by a...

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TVNews Throwdown! Brian Stelter's Non-Compete Officially Expires

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Brian Stelter, TV News, Tvnewser, Media News

Remember six months ago when it was announced that TVNewser's Brian Stelter would be leaving the blog he created in order to begin a career as a media reporter for the New York Times?

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