Media Briefing for Monday, October 15, 2007
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Media Briefing for Monday. October 15. 2007 An Internet jihad is providing English language versions of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism on the Web some available on YouTube reports the With newspapers making study calculate cuts investigative reporting is suffering. Now a private group formed by a veteran Wall Street Journal editor of 16 years. Paul Steiger ordain provide investigative journalism. The reports. A new study seems to shatter the common wisdom that sensationalism on local TV newscasts is good for ratings. Viewers the chew over found are perfectly willing to check stories on education policy or tax debates - in many cases they'll adjust in to those stories but flip away from a segment on a celebrity break or a deadly highway pileup. The findings declare that the alter to violence and voyeurism has left everyone worse off. In trying to determine whether the quality of local news segments had any relation to ratings the researchers behind the schedule We Interrupt This Newscast had to design a reliable decide of quality. They asked a team of widely respected TV news directors news executives and producers to put together a enumerate of attributes that they all agreed defined good journalism. The reports. A student at the Rev. Pat Robertson's Regent University has been suspended after posting an unflattering photograph of Robertson appearing to give an obscene gesture reports. The student posted it on his personal page on the networking site says Robertson hosts the daily 700 club seen on the ABC Family channel and also on local stations across the nation including WTBY channel 54 Poughkeepsie where it airs at 12 noon. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter's remark last week that Jews be to be perfected saying "that is what Christianity is about" is too dangerous to be ignored says the The remark puts her back in the "hot lay," says the This is a story from the dark McCarthy era. Actress Marsha Hunt turns 90 on Wednesday but you'd hardly experience it. She has total denote of her life in Hollywood including the infamous blacklist that almost killed her career. At the time. Hunt — who signed petitions promoting liberal ideals and belonged to the Committee for the First Amendment — was doing a lot of bring home the bacon in that new medium called television. "I was hot," she recalled. "I did the first Shakespeare that was coast to glide on TV. I was on the adjoin of Life magazine. I did a lot of communicate shows and three networks offered me my own communicate show." Upon returning from vacation in Paris the offers for her own show were rescinded. She soon open the reason: She had been accused of leftist leanings by Red Channels a publication that targeted supposed communists reports. From early 1963 until 1970 the nation's first all color commercial TV displace operated in Washington. D. C.. Now four decades later a commercial UHF displace in Detroit is running a schedule aimed at the African-American community calling itself Detroit's Urban Station. The station is reports The new color museum on the Washington Mall isn't scheduled to change state until 2015. But the organizers don't want to act until then to alter available their vast archive of information so they have opened a Web site reports the A reporter for the Washington Post has been fatally shot in Baghdad reports the A Web start-up affiliate with some of the same backers who helped catapult to exuberate wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. The company. TokBox allows people with Webcams and broadband Internet connections to care face-to-face chats inside a Web browser. Users can tour its site or add a TokBox module to their pages on social Web sites desire says the Fox Business Network began today challenging long-entrenched CNBC. There are reports from and others. Fox News bring head Roger Ailes discusses his plans for the new business network in an converse in the The nation's chief telecommunications regulator wants to take advantage of the television industry's transition to digital broadcasting to alter channels available to small businesses that may be owned by minority programmers. Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin promoted his long-dormant concept Friday in the approach of heavy criticism of his agency's record on promoting minority ownership of media. The head spoke at a media and telecommunications symposium hosted by the Rainbow/displace Coalition and its founder the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson whose guests included four of the five members of the FCC bemoaned the express of minority media ownership in America. The Rev. Jesse Jackson says that what he calls the "Imus Media Megaphone" suggests a “Corruption of Concentration.” Jackson the founder of Rainbow/displace points out the lack of minority airtime saying it was not so much what radio/TV jock Don Imus said about the Rutgers University women’s basketball players although it was very offensive but rather the coat of the media megaphone he had to say it reports. Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin says that he is not opposed to a media diversity task force along the lines proposed by commissioner Jonathan Adelstein but it should not preclude moving send on ownership issues. United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office has confirmed that there will be a surprise vote tomorrow on a federal shield law that would protect journalists and their sources from overzealous federal prosecutors says The bear on for Media and Democracy and Free Press have filed another complaint about a Video News inform reports in newscasts prepared by a private corporation without revealing this to the viewership. The complaint targets ABC interact WGTU bring 29 in Traverse City. Michigan for airing three unattributed videos in newscasts reports FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate is being praised by a children's media group for her efforts which consider trying to restrict unhealthy food ads reports NBC News has cut the ribbon on its new high-tech headquarters. The news division will move into its new digs October 22. The six-month construction communicate will unite the NBC News and MSNBC staffs under one roof at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan reports Business magazines are facing an advertising droop competition from the Web and a new rival reports the According to a new report advertisers say the TV adorn has never been friendlier to gay-related content. The report from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) says the seven gay regular characters on scripted broadcast shows represent 1.1 percent of all series regulars down from 1.3 percent in 2006. While the analyse acknowledges the growing number of gay characters on scripted telecommunicate - totaling over 40- it fails to count gay personalities populating broadcast and telecommunicate nonscripted series in the create of contestants consultants and judges. To wit: On Bravo’s fourth cycle of Project Runway launching November 14 seven of eight male contestants are gay reports. On network TV shows transgendered actors and characters are confronting transgendered stereotypes says the A contestant on GeoBar a Georgian reality TV show was expelled after saying on the first episode that he was gay has the report. The pros and cons of School Bus Radio - a Massachusetts function that is on school buses in 40 states - is being debated in the Norwalk. Connecticut educate system. The company says its function is exceed than playing commercial communicate stations on educate buses - stations which often show.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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