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Experienced crowd counter weighs in on Beck rally “My estimate is that about 80,000 people were at the rally. Ryan Shuler, an Airphotoslive image analyst, used the same images and a different grid-density method to produce an estimate of 87,000. Considering the error margins around our separately-calculated estimates, they are statistically identical. CBS went with the [...] I mentioned a few weeks ago that I didn’t think Gannett’s decision to take the Tallahassee Democrat behind a paywall was necessarily going to put the paper out of business, but it wasn’t clear how they might make it work. This CJR article about models of private news suggest some ways some niche newspapers might succeed [...] Bill Mitchell at Poynter notes that the Tallahassee Democrat, and two other Gannett-owned dailies, may not be interested in making money off the Internet. “Since online access is provided at no extra charge to home delivery customers — the people regarded as most attractive to local advertisers — the loss of lots of free readers online [...] Tallahassee’s only daily newspaper, the Tallahassee Democrat, will move behind a pay-wall on July 1. “Today, we announce an historic change in how we do business“ The Democrat is owned by Gannett Company, Inc. Gannett has selected three newspapers to test out their new pay-only policy (“One of the others is St. George, UT. I’m not sure [...] Here’s a fun game to play at home. See if the movie or television show you’re watching passes the Bechdel Test (sometimes incorrectly identified as the Mo Movie Measure). “The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and just how well rounded and complete those roles [...] Wonderful interview with Glenn Greenwald. “But what is clear is that, for a variety of reasons, the two-party system does not work in terms of providing clear choices. No matter who wins, the same permanent factions that control Washington continue to reign. That’s true no matter which issues one considers most important. At [...] WGN News anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange perform a choreographed… something during a commercial break. I suppose I should be delighted by the whimsy and execution of this performance, but frankly, I think these two have too much time on their hands. Perhaps they have built it up bit-by-bit over the course of years of [...] Bill Moyers last show. BILL MOYERS: You’ve no doubt figured out my bias by now. I’ve hardly kept it a secret. In this regard, I take my cue from the late Edward R. Murrow, the Moses of broadcast news. Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don’t try to hide [...] I posted recently about a Meet the Press fact-checking site called Meet the Facts. Today I got a nice email pointing me to this great post about how Meet the Facts came to be – If David Gregory won’t fact check Meet the Press, these college students will. It’s a great post, I highly recommend it. (Thanks, Simon!) Good post from Eric Deggans this morning about fact-checking Sunday morning political talk shows. PolitiFact and This Week teamed up recently to fact-check the guests who appeared on This Week. David Gregory, the host of Meet the Press, dismissed the idea. A new web site called Meet the Facts was started to do David Gregory’s [...] Good for Google. They just made it easier to claim Fair Use for materials you post to YouTube. If I just copy a Madonna video and post it to YouTube, that is a legitimate transgression and should be removed if the rights-holder complains. If I use a clip of a Madonna song in a video [...] Can we please stop pretending that ANY cable news channel is anywhere close to liberal? When we have a news channel that has shows like Socialism Around the World, The Intellectual Freedom Hour, Sunday Morning Atheists, Legalize It!, and Plutocrat Watch and regularly invites Noam Chomsky, Bill Moyers, Ralph Nader, and Michael Moore to comment on [...] If CNN had a line-up like this I might actually watch cable news. (Well, maybe not the 11pm program, but maybe the midnight show could be hosted by Duncan Black and Josh Marshall.) * 7 pm: Leave Jon King in prime time and rename his show Politics is Broken. It should be an outside-in show. [...] I wish there was a generally accepted distinction between reporter and journalist. A reporter would be someone who helped spread news-type information. Re-wording articles from the AP, press releases, or a government agency is reporting. The talking heads on television news are reporters. Bloggers and tweeters are reporters. Journalists, on the other hand, are the folks [...] Aha! It’s always nice to find others who share my opinions. This article in The Nation echoes an argument I’ve often made to those who will listen (my dogs and cat). “This takes us to the second great misconception: that the crisis in journalism was created by the rise of the Internet and the current recession. [...] The National Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards affair with Rielle Hunter. Because of their reporting Edwards is being investigated for misusing campaign funds and may be indicted within the next couple of months. The Pulitzer Award committee has agreed to consider this bit of journalism for two of the most prestigious awards it [...] The South Florida Raging Grannies weigh in on the recent CBS advocacy ad kerfuffle. What does CBS stand for? Watch the video to find out. Or, check out the Women’s Media Center to learn more. Here’s more about the raging grannies from Wikipedia. Another spot-on column from Matt Taibbi. He touches on one of the reasons I’m actually sympathetic to the Tea Party protesters. “You teabaggers are in the process of being marginalized by your own ostensible party leaders in exactly the same way the anti-war crowd was abandoned by the Democratic party elders in the earlier part of [...] In the education post both Carol and I start with this Gallup poll that shows a very high satisfaction rate (77%) with how schools are educating children. Parents generally think their child is getting a good education. But those other kids? The poll shows that only 46% are satisfied with education in the country. What accounts [...] Fatty fat fat Filippa Hamilton was fired by Ralph Lauren because she could no longer fit into his clothes. Filippa is so fat that his art department tried to “correct” her look with photoshop, resulting in this now notorious image - Filippa was fired in April and says - “They fired me because they said I was [...] The White House is correct in pointing out that FOX News acts as the communications arm of the GOP. But the idea that CNN is somehow doing “news” or “reporting” or “journalism” is laughable, as Stewart points out in the following segment. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Time magazine weighs in on mug shot mania. “Mug Shots, a prominent fixture on the site’s home page since it debuted earlier this year, posts every arrest photo from the four Tampa Bay-area counties, complete with the dazed scowls, bad hair and, for folks like Laurie, the humiliation of appearing alongside alleged murderers and car thieves.” Running [...] Dan Gillmor has some tips for improving news orgs. “A core mission of our work would be to help people in the community become informed users of media, not passive consumers — to understand why and how they can do this. We would work with schools and other institutions that recognize the necessity of critical thinking.” Really? Why is our public discourse so shallow, frivolous, and inconsequential? This jackass bullshit will take up another few news cycles. After being bandied about for the last 8 months I bet most people still don’t know what “public option” means. Oh, I think I just answered my question. (Corporate power has no interest in [...] It just makes sense. To hate war is crazy. To hate health care insurance reform is just a bedrock American value. “This simply proves again that when right-wing (and mostly white) conservatives get angry, it’s big news. When liberals get angry, it’s just annoying.” OK, I need to find this video. Moyers is one of my all-time favorite liberals, one of my all-time favorite Texans, and one of my all-time favorite journalists. I went looking for his appearance on Real Time the day after it aired, but all the videos had been yanked. After reading this snippet in Politico, [...] Dare I copy and paste the whole article? It IS pretty awesome. In a short post Glenn Greenwald backhands our chattering pundit class, and reveals the lie of American meritocracy. Until he listed all the names together I hadn’t realized how many television pundits got their break by being the children of someone famous. All of [...] (h/t Eric Deggans at the Feed) This was posted three days ago, but I’m just reading it this morning. Wayne Garcia is leaving Creative Loafing for a visiting professor appointment at the University of Florida. Needless to say Garcia is irreplaceable. He is absolutely one of the best political writers in the southeast, and his regular column at [...] Michael Steele appeared on NPR and the liberal blogs are crowing about how he got so tripped up by the interviewer Steve Inskeep. Except that isn’t the case. Inskeep’s interview is an embarrassment, and a perfect example of what happens when ideology interferes with professionalism. Rather than asking about specifics, or mentioning facts or evidence, Inskeep [...] Spot-on analysis by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters. “Writing at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder defended journalists who scorned liberal Bush critics years ago when they made that exact same claim about the nation’s terror warning system. Journalists were right to dismiss the allegation, wrote Ambinder, ‘because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President [...] |
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