Comments on: Rove's Understanding of the Media http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/08/14/roves-understanding-of-the-media/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/08/14/roves-understanding-of-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1792 Jon Garfunkel Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:46:00 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/08/14/roves-understanding-of-the-media/#comment-1792 I stand somewhat corrected. <a href="http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=1618&pg=3" rel="nofollow">Gallup's poll from Aug 13-16th</a> found that Rove's favorability rating rose 5 points-- pulling them from the "never heard of/no opinion." Hardly the extreme makeover that shoddy reporting was expected to effect, but a bump nonetheless. I stand somewhat corrected. Gallup’s poll from Aug 13-16th found that Rove’s favorability rating rose 5 points– pulling them from the “never heard of/no opinion.”

Hardly the extreme makeover that shoddy reporting was expected to effect, but a bump nonetheless.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/08/14/roves-understanding-of-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1791 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:59:28 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/08/14/roves-understanding-of-the-media/#comment-1791 Jay Rosen: "Have you noticed, in all the press coverage of Rove’s announcement yesterday, no one spoke of knowing Karl Rove as a source..." Should they? Is that standard journalistic behavior? More from Jay: "That’s the real Karl Rove. But you wouldn’t know it from the 'despised and deified' coverage we saw yesterday." Hmm. Can we have a show of hands for how many people think that Karl Rove public reception will be transformed overnight by some sleepy late summer reporting? Gallup's been keeping their eyes (or rather, our eyes) on the <a href="http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27055" rel="nofollow">favorability ratings of people in the news</a>. Rove's 21%-44% F-to-U rating in March is pretty much in the cellar, lower than his boss the Prez and his protector, the AG. The only people viewed more unfavorably by the Americans who are not a foreign dictator (Castro, Chavez, Cheney) are Rosie O'Donnell, and Brittney Spears. Even Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a 27% favorability as recent as March (she did, after all, sparkle in the too-long-by-two-hours <i>Prairie Home Companion</i> movie.) The Rove poll was conducted before his "MC Rove" turn. Here's Ken Duberstein, former Reagan Chief of Staff, in a Jeff Greenfeld story for <i>CBS Evening News</i>: "Karl Rove has become the second most famous four-letter-word in Washington." Jay Rosen:
“Have you noticed, in all the press coverage of Rove’s announcement yesterday, no one spoke of knowing Karl Rove as a source…”

Should they? Is that standard journalistic behavior?

More from Jay:
“That’s the real Karl Rove. But you wouldn’t know it from the ‘despised and deified’ coverage we saw yesterday.”

Hmm. Can we have a show of hands for how many people think that Karl Rove public reception will be transformed overnight by some sleepy late summer reporting? Gallup’s been keeping their eyes (or rather, our eyes) on the favorability ratings of people in the news. Rove’s 21%-44% F-to-U rating in March is pretty much in the cellar, lower than his boss the Prez and his protector, the AG. The only people viewed more unfavorably by the Americans who are not a foreign dictator (Castro, Chavez, Cheney) are Rosie O’Donnell, and Brittney Spears. Even Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a 27% favorability as recent as March (she did, after all, sparkle in the too-long-by-two-hours Prairie Home Companion movie.)

The Rove poll was conducted before his “MC Rove” turn.

Here’s Ken Duberstein, former Reagan Chief of Staff, in a Jeff Greenfeld story for CBS Evening News: “Karl Rove has become the second most famous four-letter-word in Washington.”

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