Bob Collins
Like NPR before it, WNYC’s news staff didn’t pull punches in its coverage today, suggesting that John Hockenberry was given the option to leave The Takeaway quietly in exchange for keep all the reasons quiet.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
You can be a reporter or you can be an employee. But when the story is within your company, you can’t be both. Read more →
The Rochester Post Bulletin has announced it will no longer issue a printed Friday edition. It will publish only five days a week. Read more →
James O’Keefe, the Project Veritas boss who’s made quite a name for himself by secretly filming meetings with media organizations, probably isn’t going to reveal what happened when he tried to trap the Washington Post’s reporters into offering their views of Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who’s been embroiled in a controversy over alleged relationships with underage girls.
The Post didn’t bite on O’Keefe’s attempt to trap the journalists by sending a woman claiming she was impregnanted by Moore.
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A dustup from Republican operatives on Twitter yesterday was a perfect example of the ingrained cultural patriarchy. Three media outlets were allowed to interview Sen. Al Franken yesterday in separate interviews and all three reporters were women. Read more →
Just how a big comeback Nazis have made in 2017 was never more obvious than the New York Times’ decision to put a human face on them.
He’s Tony Hovate and he’s just a regular guy, the Times tells us. He’s the Nazi sympathizer next door.
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It is much more difficult now for television — any news outlet, really — to awaken a conscience than it was in 1984. Read more →
It’s hard to believe a reporter would go to the bother of setting up a TV interview, and then not get any newsworthy answers to questions that her allegations have raised. Read more →
Dish Network has dropped WCCO and all CBS stations from its broadcast lineup in a dispute over the amount of money the satellite TV service pays to CBS. Read more →
At the beginning of its broadcast this morning, CBS devoted 9 minutes of airtime to the story of Charlie Rose, who has now been suspended by the network. Read more →
We don’t often hear about television stations going off the air but KCCO, Channel 7 in Alexandria, will fade to black at the end of the year, ending 59 years of broadcasting to the region, the St. Cloud Times reports.
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A Texas reporter thinks the news media owes Sutherland an apology and says there must be a better way to cover stories like this. Read more →
Everything that’s wrong with bro-talk radio can pretty much be summed up with a Boston sportscaster’s rant against Roy Halladay on the day after Halladay — about as decent a person as ever existed — crashed his plane into the Gulf of Mexico and died. Read more →
Since the story of Michael Oreskes surfaced last week, I’ve been waiting for NPR’s ombudsman to check in with an assessment of how NPR covered the story of sexual harassment allegations against the newsroom boss, who has since been fired. Today, Elizabeth Jensen did.
Most morning shows on commercial radio should never be taken too seriously, but apparently an election in Grand Forks could be influenced by a satirical, if juvenile, bit by a local radio station’s shock jocks. Part of the problem, perhaps, is the gullibility of listeners. Read more →