Don’t worry, print journalism! You’re not the only thing that’s going away! Citibank entertainment media analyst Jason B. Bazinet and his team wrote in a note to investors today that they are baffled by the audience ratings decline they’re seeing in cable TV. Citi downgraded CBS, Disney, Discovery, News Corp and Scripps from “Buy” to […]
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Trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
Hey, remember Aaron Sorkin? (The West Wing, Sports Night?) Well, he’s dipping his toes back in the political/media pee pool with his new HBO series slated for late June called The Newsroom. Jeff Daniels is America’s #1 most trusted and objective-y news anchor… until suddenly? HE AIN’T. Watch him go all Howard Beale in this […]
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Spamming Pinterest
The Daily Dot has a pretty fascinating interview up with a kid who has figured out how to make upwards of a grand a day by promoting Amazon products on Pinterest: I resent Pinterest. I haven’t really gotten into it in any depth, but browsing makes me feel like an unsuccessful human being. And so, […]
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©opyright Math
Yeah, I often browse through TED Talks lectures, even the boring ones. (I also listen to NPR.) What of it? That said, if you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend humorist/Rhapsody co-founder Rob Reid’s short, funny, and extremely effective takedown of SOPA, and Hollywood’s claim that it loses $58 billion a year to copyright […]
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Gotcha Interview from a Republican “Journalist” Becomes Gotcha Video Against Republican “Journalist”
In order to prove that the Obama Administration is corrupt, Republican “journalist” Jason Mattera decided to prove that the celebrities who support the Obama Administration are corrupt. Makes sense! So he caught Bono backstage at a party and proceeded to interview him about charities that do work in his name: Mattera: By dodging taxes on […]
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State of the News: What You’d Expect
The Pew Research Center released its annual State of the News Media today, marking 2011 the beginning of a new digital era. A compilation of research stemming from all media forms and all audiences, the report paints a predictable picture of the present (and future) state of news media. The report comes along with a […]
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Who Loves You, Portland?
It’s a well known fact that the New York Times loves to drool over Portland as often as possible. Examples here, here and here (and that’s not all). So you’re probably expecting another quaint installment in the NYT’s monthly ode to Portland. TWIST! Turns out we’ve got another major media outlet on our side. You […]
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Mike Daisey and the This American Life Retraction
If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend listening to This American Life‘s episode about Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The full audio has been posted here. A lot of people have talked about it, but it’s definitely worth listening to TAL’s dissection. It’s riveting to hear the dead air as […]
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More Bob Caldwell Fallout: “Family Friend” Who Gave O Misleading Info Was an Editor Who Has Since Been Fired
Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia posted an editor’s note early this morning on the paper’s decision this week to correct its original reporting on the death of its longtime opinion pages editor, Bob Caldwell. The note explains the uncomfortable calculus but also includes another awful stunner.The “family friend” who told the paper that Caldwell had died […]
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Oregonian Revises Story: Bob Caldwell Died in Apartment of Woman Who Says He Sometimes Paid Her for Sex
The Oregonian last night had to set the record straight on one small detail in the paper’s initial story on the sudden death of its Pulitzer-winning editorial page editor, Bob Caldwell. Caldwell did not die in his car, as the paper initially reported. The Oregonian previously erroneously reported that Caldwell had been found in his […]
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Doonesbury Fallout Actually Has Me Agreeing with Oregonian Commenters
Just like they said they would, as we noted on Friday, Oregonian editors really went through with their prudish decision not to print this week’s series of abortion-themed Doonesbury strips. But in a weird compromise that somehow doesn’t involve the reasonable idea of moving the strips to the paper’s editorial pages, the paper is making […]
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Abortion and Comics Don’t Mix, Says Oregonian
In what was a “clear call” for its editors, the Oregonian next week is taking a pass on an entire week of “graphic,” abortion-themed Doonesbury comics. Features Editor JoLene Krawczak announced the decision in a reader’s note. Comics, she reminds us, are supposed to be funny (diligently probing the lives of fat, lasagna-loving cats and […]