Center of Attention
Apr 17th, 2007 | one response
A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Editor’s Note: Today’s CoA intentionally focuses on topics other than the Va. Tech massacre and Don Imus, given the wide range of material that has already been written and will be written on those topics.
Sean Aqui looks at a different angle of the US Attorneys scandal, not why certain attorneys were fired, but why at least one other kept his job.
Writing at his own place, TMV Assistant Editor Michael vdG raises questions about an anti-Semitic video posted at Kos, and encourages we Americans to understand how others perceive us.
The Angry Independent looks at a Pew survey that suggests the viewers of hit faux news programs on Comedy Central are actually better informed than those who watch Faux Fox News.
Jeff Jarvis peels back the tent flap on discussions at a Radio Television News Directors Association gathering. Place your bets: Do you think part of the brouhaha might have had something to do with old media versus new?
Brad DeLong examines a spat between D’s and generally suggests this is not productive for a party attempting to hold on to the majority.
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One Response to “Center of Attention”
First of all, don’t be a loser that typically attacks Fox because it refuses to follow the liberal party line of the media. Criticize it for being tacky and lowering standards of conduct if you want — oh, but radicals don’t want standards of conduct, anyway (unless one is in the media and should therefore be reasonably well left of center).
Second, regarding the following:
> The Angry Independent looks
> at a Pew survey that suggests
> the viewers of hit faux news
> programs on Comedy Central
> are actually better informed
> than those who watch “Faux”
> News.
The site at the link is a loserish site, looking like that of a playpen leftist “independent” who merely is young and doesn’t want to commit himself or herself to being a Democrat officially yet. (Could still be playing with the Greens, who knows.) Even FAIR [sic] would be better.
The actual report is here:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319
The summary of findings includes:
“Well-informed audiences come from
cable (Daily Show/Colbert Report, O’Reilly Factor),
the internet (especially major newspaper websites),
broadcast TV (NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)
and radio (NPR, Rush Limbaugh’s program).
The less informed audiences also frequent a mix of formats:
broadcast television (network morning news shows, local news),
cable (Fox News Channel),
and the internet (online blogs where people discuss news events).