Archive for the “Old Media” Category

Update at the end of the post.

Today, we’ll take a look at the Journal Gazette’s circulation numbers. As a follow-up and to be fair, down the road a bit we’ll feature the News Sentinel’s numbers.

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Friday I received an email from a reporterette with the Journal Gazette requesting an interview. Since the Journal Gazette is famously known for taking interviews out of context, I plan on declining as soon as I post this.

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Oh, I just love this.

Award-winning journalist John Stossel is joining FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network.

Stossel, best known for his work as co-anchor of ABC News’ “20/20,” will anchor “Stossel,” a weekly program on FOX Business Network, and make regular appearances on FOX News Channel, it was announced Thursday.

Up next may be Joe Scarborough, unless he decides to run for President in 2012.

Yesterday I heard Pat White talking about how some hacker stole over a million identities and he found out one of them was a merchant he patronizes. So, what did Pat do? He called LifeLock, a company that provides Identity Theft Protection.

He goes on to explain how he was *so* impressed with their services, he cut a deal with them to save you money. If you mention his name or, when on their web site and use “Pat White” in the promo code box, you get 10% off.

He’s full of crap.

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It amazes me that this dumbass actually has a job at MSNBC. This isn’t an interview, it’s nothing short of a media junta.

It’s no wonder that mainstream media is losing it’s grasp as a source for news. Frank Gray proved that today in his column, “Twitter on edge of useless.”

People didn’t research issues. Voters relied on what came to be called sound bites – 10-, 15-second quotes tossed out by officeholders or candidates. The contents of these sparse lines were all that much of the public knew about important issues, and they were what they used to form opinions.

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Thank God a Georgia college student had the good sense to save his friends lives. 

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html

 How much you wanna bet this NEVER get’s a mention in any major newscast or newspaper?  The only way this would be newsworthy to the MSM is if the kid DIDN’T have a gun and the thugs massacred the students. Then it would fit the medias’ anti 2nd ammendment agenda.

Instead, the good guys win, so it’s no news here, move along, nothing to see here. But Barry and Joe are gettin’ a cheeseburger, let’s send out a news crew!!!

Frickin’ pathetic.

Tim Zank

Worth watching

This morning the news broke regarding the murder of 8 year-old Sandra Cantu. Melissa Huckaby, 28, was arrested and charged on suspicion of kidnapping and killing the young girl. I read this first on Fox News and they had the picture of a Melissa Huckaby, but it was the wrong Huckaby.

The first picture is the correct Huckaby.

Fox has changed the picture, but there is no mention of the mistake. Several other news agencies did the same thing.

Below is a screen shot of the Post Chronicle’s web site regarding the story. They are using both the correct picture and an incorrect one of another Melissa Huckaby.

The picture of the wrong Melissa Huckaby was obviously lifted from her MySpace page. Below is a screen shot of that page. Note the message on the right side. “Miss Awissa just so you are all aware…I am NOT the Melissa huckaby associated with the Sandra Cantu case.”

How would you like to wakeup to your face being plaster all over the Internet as a child murderer?

AWB

So they’ve sat on their ass and allowed the Internet age to pass them by. Now the dinosaurs of the information age are getting their own stimulus package.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.

The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication to help staff adapt to an increasingly Internet-based industry.

Minnesota Job Skills Partnership is awarding $238,000 in state funds, while the newspapers and the university will contribute about $469,000 combined, mostly by devoting staff time to training.

Paul Moe, the state program’s director, said newspapers around the country are looking closely at the project as a potential model.

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Oh, and here’s the interesting part of the story.

Hansen said training will be tailored to the skills of the newsroom and advertising sales staffs at the newspapers. She said a primary goal for both departments will be getting them away from print-based thinking.

Some journalists “don’t know how to start thinking about stories without thinking about what’s going to be in the print newspaper,” she said.

What does that mean? “Print-based thinking?” I find it laughable that they think journalists have anything to do with on-line content delivery. The problem lies within the newspapers management and their inability until now, to embrace the Internet.

Newspaper publishers by and large have yet to figure out the best practices in generating traffic and revenues. They are the ones stuck in print-based thinking, not the journalists. Unlike the blogs, newspaper web sites are pretty trashy, loaded with annoying advertisements and don’t do much in the way of sustaining audience participation.

When’s the last time you saw a user-friendly change” to the Journal Gazette or News Sentinel’s web site?

Camille Paglia’s liberal viewpoint on the Fairness Doctrine.

Worth a listen.