The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq's growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations.
While the three before him have dropped the ball, Bob Schieffer, the seasoned CBS newsman, must be feeling the heat as he prepares to referee next week’s final presidential smackdown.
Strong majorities of the public say the press has been fair to John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But fewer than four-in-ten (38%) say the press has been fair to Sarah Palin.
ALTHOUGH it's easy to dismiss the Fox News Channel as the broadcast wing of the Republican Party, critics continually turn a blind eye to a basic virtue of FNC: It's really pretty entertaining.
Comics have always made fun of politicians, but comedy shows have been an especially vital force in framing the presidential election for a mass audience, cementing caricatures of the candidates -- and earning strong ratings in the process.
ABC drew the highest household rating for Tuesday night's second presidential debate, toppling NBC by over a rating point in the early figures. CBS finished third.
KTVI / KPLR job losses The Local TV LLC axe swings in St. Louis. Around 20 people fired from KPLR / CW11 so far, with maybe 40 more to go. Notably gone--anchor Rick Edlund and weathercaster Keryn Shipman. Layoffs at KTVI/Fox 2 start Friday.
"Palin Did 'Fantastic' With My Buddy Katie" - Senior McCain Advisor
“I am most fascinated by and curious about what is at the root of the vicious hate-filled commentary coming out of so many of the women in cable news.”
Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
The Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the 32nd Annual Mid-America Emmy Awards on Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown St. Louis.
Fox News' telecast of the debate was its most-watched ever in the 12-year history of the network, Nielsen Media Research said Friday afternoon. It was also the top-rated cable newscast for the debate with 11.1 million viewers. It tied with CBS News' viewership and only ABC (13.1 million) and NBC (12.8 million) were higher.
RANDY KARRAKER ADDED TO SPORTS/TALK 101.1’S LINE-UP
The Bonneville St. Louis Radio Group announced the addition of award-winning St. Louis sports media veteran Randy Karraker to the Sports/Talk 101.1 station line-up. Karraker will join the newly created station as part of the Afternoon Drive team when the station debuts on January 1, 2009.
As news organizations chase exclusives about the Wall Street meltdown, they also are grappling with a troubling question: Why didn't they see this coming?
Sarah Palin Says Katie Couric Interviews Were 'Unfair'
"Ok I'll tell you honestly the Sarah Palin in those interviews is a little bit annoyed because it's no matter what you say you are going to get clobbered," she told Fox News.
A Credit to the Chicago Public Radio show This American Life and NPR’s new podcast Planet Money for an incisive and —dare we say it—entertaining piece on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s disgraceful performance in the credit crisis.
A lot has changed in the 50 years since Edward R. Murrow made his now-famous speech challenging television news to live up to its potential. What's sad is how much is still the same.
Bleak Year Culminates With More Layoffs At Post-Dispatch
The words that stretched across the top of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sept. 30 read “Fear rushes in.” The headline referred to Wall Street’s financial crisis, but it also could apply to the mood at the newspaper amid parent company Lee Enterprises Inc.’s own economic tailspin.
GOP 'Gotcha Journalism' Charges Throw Spotlight On Debate
For days now, television viewers have watched Sarah Palin unable to explain the significance of her home state's bordering Russia, unable to name a Supreme Court ruling she disagrees with, unable to name a single newspaper she reads.
After 20 years of column writing, I'm familiar with angry mail. But the past few days have produced responses of a different order. Not just angry, but vicious and threatening.
Some of my usual readers feel betrayed because I previously have written favorably of Palin. By changing my mind and saying so, I am viewed as a traitor to the Republican Party—not a "true" conservative.
"I have a degree in journalism also, so it surprises me that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics all those years ago," Palin said.
Before, "If we could put a picture up that captured something the host mentioned, or something the guest mentioned, that was the extent of it. Now we can show you something online that we may not be able to tell you about on the radio. Not just about the movers and the shakers, but also the moved and the shaken, the people who may not be able to come to a studio or may not be suitable for radio."
ESPN’s content guru John Skipper says he is going to make a concerted effort to add even more live sports coverage across all of the network’s media platforms while cutting back on scripted series, reality shows, original movies and other types of more general sports entertainment programming.
