http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oldmedia/ en-us Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:03:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401586/posts Concerned that “casual” and “irregular” so-called journalists are “confusing” the American people. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation that attempts to “draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate purveyors of news.” The legislation, Senate Bill 448, would define a legitimate journalist as a person working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, a recognized publisher or broadcaster of news. Those falling outside this definition would be denied the privileges granted to established news media under freedom of the press. “The American people need to be protected from being misled by unauthorized sources,” Feinstein... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401586/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399001/posts Anderson Cooper is fading in the ratings. His 10 p.m. show, "Anderson Cooper 360," has declined 62% in total viewers and 70% in adults 25-54 from November 2008, according to Nielsen figures. Last month, in Cooper's time slot, Fox News' "On the Record" attracted an average viewership of 1.9 million while "360" averaged 672,000... From the start of 2009, he began losing a huge chunk of his nightly audience. The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399001/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382194/posts John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed tomorrow for the Beltway-area sniper spree that left 10 innocent people dead in 2002. Several family members of the victims will attend. At the time of the murderous rampage that stretched over three, horror-filled weeks... where Muhammad and his young partner in crime, Lee Malvo, wreaked bloody havoc. I covered two main aspects of the story that were underplayed by the MSM–Lee Malvo’s illegal alien catch-and-release story and Nation of Islam convert Muhammad and Malvo’s Muslim hate-mongering. Snide MSM’ers and the CAIR propagandists attacked those of who called these thugs what they... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382194/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381496/posts The London Telegraph has the bombshell report on Ft. Hood jihadist Nidal Hassan’s ties to the September 11 terrorists. Question: Why is it that we have to read British papers to get the unvarnished truths about the Ft. Hood Muslim mass murderer? Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381496/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:06:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371684/posts CNN's prime-time programs finished fourth and last among the cable news networks in October. CNN's programs finished behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but also its own sister network HLN. npr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371684/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:15:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354896/posts Get a hit drama in here, stat! Just a couple weeks into the fall television season, the prognosis is not looking good for NBC. To wit: aol.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354896/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349535/posts CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder, said during a presentation this week. "Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they're just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks," said Crawford, managing director of The Capital Group. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349535/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:47:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341487/posts Today, The Montana Standard launches a new weekly columnist for its editorial page Byron York will serve as a conservative voice every Tuesday... York, a staunch conservative, presents his arguments in a thoughtful, measured fashion, rather than resorting to cheap personal attacks on President Obama and others in the Democratic Party that seem to be the hallmark of the GOP these days, said Standard Editor Gerry O'Brien. Montana Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341487/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303573/posts Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” the legendary newsman said. Such a commission on media reform, Rather said, ought to make recommendations on saving journalism jobs and creating new business models to keep news organizations alive. “A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview yesterday afternoon. “This is... Aspen Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303573/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:17:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2297476/posts I think this is an example of the distraction that the Internet and the New Media have driven the Old Media to, but it seems that the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia was so amazed that someone finally paid attention to its work that it had to write a whole story about itself to brag about how many webpage hits it got on a recent story by staffer Lily Gordon. The L-E was all excited that it got "more than 1,000 comments" and received "712,251 page views" after Gordon's July 14 story headlined, "Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president."... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2297476/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:02:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290966/posts The Denver Post sold an average of 17.4 percent fewer weekday copies in the weeks after the Rocky Mountain News folded than what the Post and News sold together a year earlier, and 12.3 percent fewer Sunday papers, according to the Denver daily's first full circulation report since the News' shutdown. On Sundays, the latest Post report cited average sales of 526,234 -- down 12.3 percent from the Post's Sunday average a year earlier of 600,026. And on Saturdays, the Post said in Friday's report that it sold an average of 435,194 papers, down 11.2 percent from what the News... Denver Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290966/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:47:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261679/posts Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill leaves committee while ABC, CBS, NBC remain silent. The media love to fret over global warming, but now that a trillion-dollar scheme to address global warming could be just around the corner the networks have been curiously quiet. On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill to cap carbon emissions and create an artificial trading market. The network news media didn’t mention it, but critics say the legislation would be a “huge threat to American prosperity and freedom.” The Heritage Foundation estimates that this bill, known as Waxman-Markey, would cost $9.6 trillion in... Business & Media Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261679/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 17:34:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261265/posts Long gone are the days of Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingswood, Douglass Edwards, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith. These men were true “Broadcast Journalists.” They understood all to well the responsibility that rested on their broad shoulders. You didn’t have to tell Murrow or Brinkley, two men of great honor and distinction, that your job is to report the news, “straight down the middle, and leave your editorial comments out of your copy.” As Americans, we didn’t know if these men were Democrats or Republicans. It wasn’t our business: And they did not wear their... CapitolHillCoffeeHouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261265/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 17:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253045/posts Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad. But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom's reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady's "public editor." Hoyt used the word "nonsense" to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253045/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 05:49:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241312/posts The Denver Post announced Thursday that it will stop delivering print copies to the Western Slope, including Grand Junction and farther reaches of Colorado ... Print subscribers will be switched to online subscriptions INDenverTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241312/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:58:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241285/posts The Baltimore Sun has laid off 61 people in its newsroom, about a quarter of its editorial staff, including veteran editors and managers, columnists, photographers and designers. Maryland's largest newspaper laid off managerial employees at the end of the day Tuesday, and notified union-represented employees Wednesday afternoon... Tribune is operating under bankruptcy protection. Real estate mogul Sam Zell took on a $13 billion debt load when he purchased the company in 2007 Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241285/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231565/posts NBC Universal witnessed revenue and profitability declines in the first quarter. Net profits sank 45%... General Electric itself had a tough time, with earnings down 35%... Research estimates have show NBC is not alone in its bleak earnings. Other major network groups have also seen revenue and profit declines over the last six months. MediaPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231565/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231457/posts CNN's Susan Roesgen went nuts on the air Wednesday at a Chicago tea party, blaming everything (accurately) on Fox News. But maybe she was angry because Fox turned her down for a job—twice! Roesgen got snippy with a crazy interviewee while trying to cover the tea partiers, and the crowd turned on her. "I think you get the general tenor of this," she said. "It's anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox." Back in 2005, though, according to a Fox News source, Roesgen really wanted to work for that right-wing conservative network. She sent... Gawker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231457/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230645/posts Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., reported a 60 percent decline in first-quarter profit Thursday and said the decline in its advertising revenue is accelerating. Gannett, which publishes USA Today ... ad revenue shrunk by 33.5 percent. USA Today's total number of paid ad pages in the quarter fell to 527, from 826 a year ago. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230645/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:24:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229492/posts Newsweek greeted the coming of Easter with a black cover, and the headline "The Decline and Fall of Christian America," spelled out in red in the shape of a cross. Inside, it was more declarative: "The End of Christian America." Why? Because they found that the percentage of self-identified Christians had fallen 10 points since 1990. OK, then let's compare. How much has Newsweek's circulation fallen since 1990? Just since 2007, their announced circulation has dropped by 52 percent. It would be more plausible to state "The End of Newsweek." At the end of 2007, Newsweek reduced its "base rate"... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229492/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224647/posts US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad. The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them. "We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie "Network." "We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," Dean Singleton said at a meeting this... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224647/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212758/posts (CNN) -- The Rocky Mountain News, gone. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gone. The chain that owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune is in bankruptcy. Other papers, large and small, are teetering on the brink. On Monday, the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News announced that it will publish its last edition in July. Taking its place will be a Web site called AnnArbor.com. Three other Michigan newspapers announced Monday they are reducing their publications to three days a week. The Flint Journal, The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times will publish print editions on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, according... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212758/posts#comment Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206265/posts Pay will be cut 5 percent for dozens of journalists and other employees at the Boulder Camera, Colorado Daily and Broomfield Enterprise newspapers in April. The cuts will be across the board starting April 6 at the publications, which employ about 120 people. Prairie Mountain Publishing Co. LLC, the parent company of the papers, is also stopping its 401(k) match for employees of those papers by the end of this month. Prairie Mountain Publishing has nine papers statewide and employs about 160 people. Separately, Prairie Mountain Publishing is weighing offers to buy its headquarters building at 1048 Pearl St., in... Denver Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206265/posts#comment Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195982/posts The American Society of Newspaper Editors, citing the "challenging times faced by its members," announced Friday that it was canceling its 2009 convention. it had also become clear that attendance in Chicago would have been "significantly" lower than at previous conventions. The ASNE was founded in 1922. The group said the last time it failed to hold an convention was in 1945 during World War II. The US newspaper industry is facing an unprecedented crisis with print advertising revenue declining, circulation dropping and readers migrating to free news online. The announcement of the Rocky Mountain News' closure came just days... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195982/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:05:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189239/posts The Denver Post has laid off six newsroom managers in a cost-cutting effort. MediaNews Group is negotiating with union-covered Post employees for $2 million in wage and benefit concessions. William Dean Singleton, chief executive officer of MediaNews and publisher of The Denver Post, is chairman of the board of The Associated Press. Associated Press - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189239/posts#comment Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:32:47 GMT