Posts under ‘Media Criticism’

The person who runs the Stop Sex Predators blog, which broke the Foley political scandal, writes: I’m not interested in media interviews. Thank you for your interest, but if you were doing your job to begin with, Mark Foley would have been exposed a long time ago. Instead of wanting to do a story about […]

Doc Searls offers sage advice to the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, which has been in a full meltdown in recent weeks: Fire the editor.

Will Bunch has posted an essay worth reading by anyone who cares about the state of Washington journalism: “Why I’m mad: An open letter to David Broder from a fellow journalist.”

That’s the title of Henry Jenkins‘ new book. It’s one of the most important volumes in this space in a long time. Don’t miss it.

I’ve been sitting in the Atlanta airport for the past several hours in an airline lounge, where the TV is tuned to a “news” network that has been droning on incessantly about a college-cafeteria shooting in Montreal. But wait: There’s breaking news — a hostage situation in Chicago! Then it’s back to Montreal. Are these […]

The New York Times discusses “The Lonelygirl That Really Wasn’t” but skirts the ethical questions — including the fact that the site in question was deceiving people, and that the creators plainly hope to make money on the people they’ve deceived. Isn’t that — at least as much the smart forensic work that exposed the […]

The San Antonio News Express quotes Dallas Morning News Editor and President Robert W. Mong Jr. as follows: “Revenues at major metros in the last five or six years have been fairly flat,” Mong said. “Our news staff is the largest in the Southwest and we went through an involuntary reduction in October of 2004. […]

The Chicago Tribune’s Phil Rosenthal notes the rise in private (i.e. non-public shareholding) ownership of newspapers and warns, “Be careful what you wish for.” He says the Citizen Kanes of a new era will not be the saviors some people believe. OK, but so what? (And why does he use a fictional character to illustrate […]

The Boston Herald has done the smart thing: It’s moving its stock listings to the Web where they belong, saving tons of paper in the process and downsizing in a sensible manner. When will everyone else in the newspaper business wake up to this obvious move?

Jack Shafer at Slate reminds us that people who don’t know history are, well, uninformed. Read “Who won the Great Press War of 1897? Hearst or Ochs?” to see why.