Archive for the ‘Death of the MSM’ Category
Monday, July 31st, 2006
This is a bizarre story, and I leave it to Norm to sum things up succinctly:
So, here’s to the TD, a paper in search of a goal, but not necessarily in search of news.
Unless it relates to locals who appear on American Idol. They’re all over that one.
Heh.
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Oh yeah, I remember this guy.
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
A week ago, I noted that Times-Dispatch columnist Jeff Schapiro had gotten some facts wrong.
The RTD ultimately ran a correction:
Timothy M. Kaine pulled 37 percent of the vote in the House district of Del. M. Kirkland Cox, R-Colonial Heights, according to the House Democratic Caucus. Jeff E. Schapiro’s column on Page E4 on [...]
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Don’t believe everything you read. From today’s column by Jeff Schapiro in the RTD:
Kaine pulled 45 percent to 49 percent in 21 other GOP districts, including those of Speaker Bill Howell of Stafford, House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith of Salem, and Delegate Kirk Cox of Colonial Heights, the chief Republican whip.
This speaks to the [...]
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
A Schapiro column worth reading? Can it be true?
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Mark Cuban says that “journalism matters.”
Want to get younger viewers ? Go out and hire the very best recent college journalism graduates you can find. Give them a camera, a computer and an area of specialty; Business, local politics, national politics, whatever. Better yet, ask them what they think matters. Enable them to [...]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
CBS continues its tradition of fine, unbiased reporting, by stating that disgraced Louisiana Democratic congressman William Jefferson is actually a Republican.
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Virginia Centrist examines the tension between journalists and bloggers. Nowhere is that tension felt more acutely than by the payback-seeking Jeff "Good Copy" Schapiro of the RTD.
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Here's a little background on me: I hate forwarded email. All the little jokes and dumb things that people send around via email -- I can't stand it cluttering up my inbox. I just delete these emails.
However, I received one today that has been around for years, probably, but it actually amused [...]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Really, can anyone say that they are surprised at this:
Lucia Newman, CNN's first and only correspondent based in Havana, has jumped to the new Al-Jazeera International network, which plans to begin operations later this spring.
Newman will be based in Al-Jazeera's bureau in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Journalist Mariana Sanchez, a former news anchor for Panamericana Television, [...]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Yesterday, a fellow that I've known for a while who writes for the Richlands News-Press gave me a call. Seems they're upgrading their website, and they wanted to include a page with links to local political bloggers, hopefully fostering a good relationship with those bloggers. Sounds like a good idea to me, even [...]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
If anyone's interested, I'll be on "Charlottesville—Right Now" with Coy Barefoot on 1070 WINA around 5 pm today.
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Last week, we discussed the Washington Post failing to give credit to Not Larry Sabato on a big story. It appears that problem is not an isolated one at the WaPo.
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Norm is back from his first Sorensen session, engergized, no doubt, by having defied the prophets of doom (well, one prophet of doom, me). He's back on the Jeff "Good Copy" Schapiro beat, but I'd like to pile on to his analysis.
I'm a big fan of columnists giving us their unvarnished opinions, but less [...]
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Not Larry Sabato broke a great story this past weekend--perceived inappropriate remarks at a NVA town hall meeting by Governor Kaine's Chief of Staff, William "Bill" Leighty.
The MSM picked up on the story and never gave NLS adequate credit. These reporters know who they are.
NLS catches a lot of grief for being the ultimate [...]
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Last night, Rob Whitney and Americans for Prosperity made a stop in Wise County on their tour of the Commonwealth to drum up support for AFP. Great event, big turnout, and AFP came away with some support down here in Southwest that they may not have had before.
I'm continually impressed with AFP. This [...]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Jay Tea: "At what point do we decide that a media outlet like CNN, which can easily be swayed to kill stories by threats (explicit or implicit) of violent retaliation, has outlived its usefulness?"
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006
From the "credit where it's due" department: I agree that the WaPo "gets it" when it comes to new media, at least moreso than other big media outfits. Although I don't always care for their coverage, I've been impressed with their effort to reach out and recognize bloggers, mainly through the use of [...]
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