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The News Media’s Low Standards for the High Office

November 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

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It’s at times frustrating to watch the national news media cover the caucus campaigning in Iowa — as if we’re all about ethanol, hogs, and loose-meat sandwiches.

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Tags: Cable Television · Elections · Journalism · Journalism Ethics

No Time to be Neutral on Net Neutrality

July 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

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But now major telephone companies and cable companies, which control 98 percent of broadband access in the U.S. (through DSL and cable modem service), would like to dismiss net neutrality give faster connections and greater priority to clients willing to pay higher rates.

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Tags: Cable Television · Internet · Media Economics

The Shame of the Media

November 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments

butter-medMurdoch’s conglomerate has once again gone shameless with a book and Fox broadcast special called If I Did It. Developed by Judith Regan, the former National Enquirer writer who has her own ReganBooks imprint at HarperCollins, If I Did It delivers the acidic reflux of the O.J. Simpson case. You remember O.J. Simpson…

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Tags: Books · Cable Television · Media Economics