CJR.ORG — November 30, 2007
The president of CNN could not have sounded more contrite. In today’s New York Times, Jon Klein lamented the small storm that has raged in the blogosphere – and, really, nowhere else – over the background of one of the questioners at the CNN-YouTube debate that took place on Wednesday night. [...]
Entries from November 2007
November 30, 2007
CNN Needn’t Apologize
November 26, 2007
The Eichenwald Effect?
CJR.ORG — November 26, 2007
An article in yesterday’s New York Times looked at the steady exodus of India’s villagers to the megalopolis of Mumbai. According to a study by Goldman Sachs quoted in the piece, “31 villagers will continue to show up in an Indian city every minute over the next 43 years — 700 [...]
November 20, 2007
Hillary Plays the Game
CJR.ORG — November 20, 2007
How’s this for an effective media strategy for a presidential candidate: “Aggressively stamp out any misstatement about HRC before it can take on a life of its own in the popular mythology”?
This is from Michael Crowley in The New Republic blogging about HRC (aka Hillary, aka “the frontrunner”) the other day. [...]
November 16, 2007
A Reality Check For FCC Debate
CJR.ORG — November 16, 2007
Every time the FCC proposes new media ownership rules (as it did four years ago, and seven years before that) it’s an opportunity to witness the power of spin. Those who favor deregulation, and those who oppose it, describe the media landscape in ways that favor their position. In the swirl [...]
November 8, 2007
Pat Robertson Doesn’t Matter Anymore
CJR.ORG — November 8, 2007
For at least the last ten years, Pat Robertson has been a confounding, mystifying, and troublesome public figure for journalists to contend with. On the one hand, Robertson is given to such crazy talk so often and has been disowned by so many other evangelical leaders, that it’s hard to take [...]
