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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
Good morning Washington. It's the birthday of Ezra Klein (have you seen him on "Hardball" lately?!?) and Mark Leibovich. Oh, and Ghostface Killah, too. (UPDATE: Mike Allen's Playbook tells us that it's Dana Perino's birthday)
You think Hillary will drop out of the race in a matter of weeks.
Today's "Angry Journalist" rant of the day: "As an editor, I am sorry if I don't jump for joy every time you turn in a 400 word piece of crap that we will have to use to fill space but we might not need it. If you wanted to impress me you would get off of Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, ESPN, and Drudge and start putting in work to hone your chops. So either wait your turn to get cover something interesting or writing something extraordinary. Either way it is up to you."
A release announced, "ALM today announced that David L. Brown, editor in chief of Legal Times, will expand his responsibilities to also serve as publisher of the newspaper and Web site, Washington's leading sources of legal news. In this new position, Brown will oversee all business affairs at the paper, as well as coverage of the region's legal business, lobbying, and Capitol Hill. Brown replaces Ann Pelham, publisher of the newspaper since 1998, who is retiring from Legal Times and taking a sabbatical from journalism."
MediaBloodhound reports, "Media Matters posted a piece this afternoon about how the right-wing Washington Times today 'quoted [an] Indiana man saying Obama is 'a Muslim' without noting the assertion is false.' ... An additional search, however, reveals the decidedly more credible Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun also reported the same scene without pointing out the man's claim was false."
The Pew Weekly News Interest Index shows, "The latest round of news about Barack Obama and his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright dominated campaign news coverage last week. Wright's comments are by far the biggest political event of the campaign to date: fully 62% say they have heard a lot or a little about Rev. Wright's recent speeches. Most Americans (59%) think that news organizations have overcovered the Wright controversy. About two-thirds of Democrats (66%) and nearly as many independents (59%) say that news organizations have devoted too much coverage to Wright’s recent speeches. But as many as half of Republicans agree that Wright's comments have received too much coverage."
Mixed Media reports, "Rupert Murdoch must be as confident of winning Newsday as he claims to be. Why else would he be ceding the New York tabloid circulation war when victory is so tantalizingly close? In yesterday's News Corp. earnings call, Murdoch made a surprise announcement that the New York Post will increase its cover price from 25 cents to 50 cents."
Boston Globe's Kevin Cullenwrites, "Some years ago, when Toni Locy was a reporter for this newspaper, she wrote stories documenting that some members of the Boston Police Department weren't doing their jobs very well. The cops were furious and some put a picket line up outside the Globe. In our business, that's a compliment. And for all their huffing and puffing, the department ended up adopting reforms that Locy suggested were needed. Locy was always a good, tough-nosed journalist, always in high heels and high spirits. She is now in danger of becoming a very broke and incarcerated journalist. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., named Reggie Walton wants to bankrupt her and throw her in jail because she won't give up her sources."
Gawker writes, "Why The Times Should Abandon The News-Opinion Divide"
An ABC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research for Sunday, May 4, 2008, ABC News' 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' outperformed CBS' 'Face the Nation' among total viewers. This is the tenth week in a row and 22nd time this season 'This Week' beat 'Face' in total viewers. Compared to the same week last year “This Week” grew a significant 20% among total viewers and 17% among the key Adults 25-54 demographic. Season to date, 'This Week' grew among Adults 25-54 and experienced the greatest growth among total viewers compared to the other Sunday discussion programs. Week to week, 'This Week' increased 15% among total viewers and 14% among A25-54."
A NBC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research data, 'Meet the Press with Tim Russert' was the most-watched Sunday morning public affairs program, winning the week ending Sunday, May 4, 2008 in all categories. On Sunday, the Russert-moderated program was No. 1, averaging 4.346 million total viewers"
Washington Post reports, "The switch to digital broadcasting, the biggest change for the television industry since color TV, will get a trial run in September in Wilmington, N.C. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin plans to announce today that the agency will run the test of the transition to digital to work out the kinks before most of the country's broadcasters stop transmitting traditional analog signals and upgrade to digital-only programming."
The New York Observer reports, "On Monday, MSNBC kicked off The New York Times Special Primary Edition, a new irregularly recurring daytime political show hosted by John Harwood in which Times scribes chew over news from the campaign trail. So how did the show's premier do? Not great! According to Nielsen data, 'The New York Times Special Primary Edition,' finished fourth among cable news networks in the 2 P.M. time slot."
Eat The Press reports, "SNL Launches 'SNL Politics'"
The Philadelphia Inquirer has Gwen Ifill, "Journalism pioneer talks about politics, race, herself"
"Is 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' a news program? Stewart and his producers say that answer is no, but in a survey last year the comedian showed up as one the most admired journalists in America. To offer some light on what exactly viewers get from the program, a new Project for Excellence in Journalism study analyzes a year of content of The Daily Show and compares what it finds to what appeared in the mainstream media during the same time period."
AdAge.com reports, "Adults Spend Slightly More Than Half Their Media Hours With TV"
PBS reports, "This year, media analysts have viewed much of the 2008 primary season through the prism of race. A panel of experts discusses the way the media have covered the issue of race so far this election season." Check out the transcript here.
TechCrunch and The Washington Post have teamed up. Check it out here.
Reuters reports, "Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday stress in the U.S. economy is squeezing advertising budgets, adding that News Corp's Fox Interactive Media would miss an ambitious $1 billion annual revenue goal by 10 percent."
Beet.TV reports, "YouTube in "HD" is Coming to Your Living Room Soon"
The New York Times reports, "A former editor of People magazine had some hard-and-fast rules: young is better than old, pretty is better than ugly, television is better than music, music is better than movies, movies are better than sports. And anything is better than politics. Apparently that rule does not apply to the high-drama presidential campaign of 2008, judging by the unprecedented number of pages in People and other celebrity magazines devoted to coverage of the presidential candidates, along with their spouses, children, BlackBerries, wardrobes, iPods and travel Bibles."
The Deal.com reports, "Norman Pearlstine, a senior advisor at the Carlyle Group and former editor in chief of Time Inc., spoke at the 2008 Leadership in Media Forum on Wednesday morning about the future of newspapers and magazines. 'There are still plenty of reasons for owning a newspaper,' Pearlstine said. 'They remain viable business; they can be profitable; but they won't have the kinds of margins that they [had before the Internet].' However the industry is no longer for everyone: 'Owning a newspaper is for the rich guy that didn't get a football team,' he joked."
Business Week reports, "The FCC is under pressure to force stiffer restrictions on the satellite radio providers but Sirius and XM have very little leeway"
A release announced, "BlogTalkRadio (www.blogtalkradio.com), the first citizen broadcasting network, and AOL News (news.aol.com), have created a daily online talk radio show focusing on AOL News' Hot Seat question of the day. The show, called AOL Hot Seat Question of the Day, will be available to listeners on BlogTalkRadio, (www.blogtalkradio.com/AOL-Hot-Seat), and AOL's Political Machine blog, (news.aol.com/political-machine). BlogTalkRadio's Media Lizzy will host the daily program along with a Political Machine Hot Seat blogger of the day. Listeners can call in and join the conversation."
Mark your calendars for "I Want Media's first-ever discussion forum, The Future of Media, at New York University on June 4." For more details, click here.
BtoB reports, "CEOs of business media companies discussed challenges facing the industry and how they are adapting their business models during a roundtable discussion Tuesday at American Business Media's 2008 Spring Meeting."
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