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Companies Pay Up for News Coverage in China

Business fork over thousands for positive pieces

(Newser) - If you're looking for some positive news coverage in China, open your wallet. Chinese media outlets routinely sell coverage, charging thousands of dollars for flattering interviews, puff pieces, or even quick shots of a CEO in a crowd, the New York Times reports. Officially, the practice is illegal in...

Republicans Think Trayvon Coverage Overblown
Republicans Think Trayvon Coverage Overblown
new poll
Apr 4, 2012 7:24 AM CDT

Republicans Think Trayvon Coverage Overblown

But public is following it more closely than any other story

(Newser) - The drama surrounding Trayvon Martin's death has captivated the country, but a majority of Republicans (56%) believe the case is getting too much media coverage, as do a sizable chunk of white people (43%), according to a new Pew Poll . By contrast, only 25% of Democrats and 16% of...

Sarah Palin Co-Hosting Today Show

She's going head-to-head with nemesis Katie Couric on GMA

(Newser) - Welcome to the lamestream media, Sarah Palin. She's going to be co-hosting NBC's Today show tomorrow morning, reports Mediabistro . Palin will go head-to-head with arch-nemesis Katie Couric, who's filling in this week on ABC's Good Morning America, and who's responsible for one of the former...

Sarah Palin Gushes Over Santorum BS Dig

'Good on ya, Rick, don't retreat,' she says

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is thrilled Rick Santorum blasted a question from the New York Times (ie, "lamestream media") as "BS." It "was good and it was strong, and it was about time because he's saying enough is enough of the liberal media twisting conservatives' words,...

Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43
 Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43 
obituary
Mar 1, 2012 8:42 AM CST

Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

His sites confirm the conservative blogger died in LA this morning

(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart's Big Government today confirmed that its founder died early this morning at the age of 43. "With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce" that "Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles," it reports....

US Media Leading Propaganda War on Iran

 US Media Leading 
 Propaganda War on Iran 
OPINION
Feb 14, 2012 12:41 PM CST

US Media Leading Propaganda War on Iran

It's blindly beating the war drums once again: Glenn Greenwald

(Newser) - The American media took its lumps after the Iraqi war for not challenging the government's allegations against Saddam Hussein. It promised to learn its lesson. Guess what? The same thing is now happening in regard to Iran, with a twist: The media is actually "out in front of...

Media to Newt: We Can&#39;t Quit You!
 Media to Newt: 
 We Can't Quit You! 
Dana Milbank
Feb 1, 2012 11:32 AM CST

Media to Newt: We Can't Quit You!

Dana Milbank on why reporters everywhere love Gingrich

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich said something hurtful recently. "All our friends in the news media are very excited and eager to end this race as soon as possible," he told a Florida crowd. But nothing could be further from the truth, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post . "You...

Twitter Caves, Will Restrict Tweets in Certain Countries

Move represents major policy switch

(Newser) - Twitter has apparently decided corporate relations are more important than content. Company officials have announced that they will voluntarily restrict Twitter content in specific countries to comply with government limits on what citizens are allowed to read. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have...

Obama: Aloof Image Is Media Creation

Press corps miffed by quiet social life, he suggests

(Newser) - President Obama isn't aloof, he says—it's just that he and Michelle don't tend to paint the town red. "My suspicion is that this whole critique has to do with the fact that I don’t go to a lot of Washington parties and, as a...

Media Gaffe of the Year: the Obama/Osama Mixup
Media Gaffe of the Year:
the Obama/Osama Mixup
Year in Review
Dec 24, 2011 12:30 PM CST

Media Gaffe of the Year: the Obama/Osama Mixup

...and other mistakes

(Newser) - One is the president of the United States. The other was bent on destroying the United States. So you’d think Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden would be pretty easy to keep straight. But when the former announced the death of the latter, a really embarrassing number of news...

Pa. Newspaper Calls Out NY Times on Abuse Case

Editor says profile made victim's identity common knowledge

(Newser) - Pennsylvania's Patriot-News has led the way on reporting of the Jerry Sandusky rape allegations at Penn State, and now the paper is publicly calling out the New York Times in its handling of the story. Editor David Newhouse writes that a recent profile of "Victim One" in the...

Rowling: Reporter Put Note in Daughter's School Bag

She and Sienna Miller tell UK ethics panel about media 'siege'

(Newser) - The media ethics panel set up in Britain in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal is getting an earful today from some high-profile witnesses:
  • JK Rowling: The Harry Potter author complained that a journalist once slipped a note into her 5-year-old daughter's school bag
...

Pa. Paper Reported Sex Abuse Allegations ... in March

Harrisburg Patriot-News' months-long coverage largely ignored

(Newser) - The nation—not to mention State College, Pa.—was rocked by the Penn State sex abuse allegations, which were first reported on November 5. Except that's not when they were first reported. The Harrisburg Patriot-News covered the initial allegations to surface against Jerry Sandusky ... in March. That's...

Clinton's NBC Gig Proves News Biz Is a Joke

It's become an aristocracy, or entertainment, depending who you read

(Newser) - Chelsea Clinton’s hiring at NBC prompted an inspired rant from Glenn Greenwald on Salon . Pointing out the fact that NBC has also hired Jenna Bush, Meghan McCain, and Luke Russert, Greenwald writes, “I really don’t understand what those angry, lazy losers in the Occupy movement are so...

Media Blogger Resigns Amid Attribution Questions

Jim Romenesko was due to start his own blog soon, says Poynter director

(Newser) - In an ironic twist, media blogger Jim Romenesko has resigned from the Poynter Institute amid accusations of questionable media practices. Though Romenesko always displayed his sources, journalism school director Julie Moos explained yesterday that he too often included verbatim quotes without enclosing them in quotation marks, the AP reports. Romenesko...

Jack Shafer, Timothy Noah, June Thomas, Juliet Lapidos Laid Off From Slate: Reactions
Journos Outraged as
Slate Axes Jack Shafer
REACTION ROUNDUP
Aug 25, 2011 1:16 PM CDT

Journos Outraged as Slate Axes Jack Shafer

Co-founder is one of 4 staffers let go

(Newser) - Slate co-founder Jack Shafer, who has been with the online magazine since before its official launch in 1996, is being laid off, it was announced yesterday. The media critic is one of four staff members being let go; Timothy Noah , June Thomas , and Juliet Lapidos are the others, reports the...

WSJ: Stop Using Hacking Scandal to 'Assail' Us

'Ideological' competitors aim to spread blame

(Newser) - Those at the Wall Street Journal—and "thousands of other journalists"—don’t deserve to be implicated in a mess caused by a single British tabloid, write the editors of the Journal , whose own publisher, Les Hinton, recently stepped down amid the phone hacking scandal . In a lengthy...

CNN's Ed Henry: New Fox Chief White House Correspondent
 CNN's Ed Henry Jumps to Fox 
Jun 21, 2011 9:48 AM CDT

CNN's Ed Henry Jumps to Fox

Taking same White House correspondents gig, but with new boss

(Newser) - CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry is jumping to Fox News to take the same job over there, the network announced yesterday. Henry joined CNN in 2004 from Roll Call, and he covered the president, Congress, and politics for the network. A Fox News exec says the network has been...

Stewart: Media Is Lazy, but Fox News Is Worse

 Stewart: Media 
 Is Lazy, but 
 Fox News 
 Is Worse 
fox news appearance
Jun 19, 2011 5:56 PM CDT

Stewart: Media Is Lazy, but Fox News Is Worse

He talks about media bias with Chris Wallace, calls Fox News 'special'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News for the third time ever today, and Chris Wallace gave him quite the welcome: "After months of evasion, disconnected phone numbers, and press agents saying, 'Who are you again?' it appears he finally ran out of excuses." Stewart poked back in...

Dalai Lama Pizza Joke Goes Splat

Punchline met by sound of one hand clapping

(Newser) - A goofy Aussie news anchor did not find eternal satisfaction when his lame pizza joke fell flat with a confused Dalai Lama. "So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop," begins anchor Karl Stevanovic (confused look from Dalai Lama, who turns to his translator for clarification). "...

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