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Feb 17, 2008 8:39 AM CST

Wild Girls Rate, Bad Boys Skate

Media swarm Britney, Amy, but leave Heath, Kiefer in peace

(Newser) - There's a clear gender disparity in the obsessive media coverage of celebrity meltdowns, writes the New York Times. Just compare the relative restraint Entertainment Tonight exercised in holding back a video of Heath Ledger doing drugs with the news outlet gusto that greets the latest Amy Winehouse or Lindsay Lohan...

Clinton Loses Right-Wing Media Allies

Feb 16, 2008 7:51 AM CST

Clinton Loses Right-Wing Media Allies

As senator looks to her left, conservative bedfellows are bailing

(Newser) - The conservative press, once a surprising ally for Hillary Clinton, is turning out to be about as loyal as the Democratic senator should have expected, Politico writes. Though long reviled by the far-right masses, Clinton once had the carefully cultivated respect of some rightish media players like Rupert Murdoch and...

Notoriety Drives Mass Shooters

Feb 10, 2008 3:19 PM CST

Notoriety Drives Mass Shooters

Thirst for fame and scandal-hungry media make for dangerous combo, doctor says

(Newser) - Gunfire ripped out across the country last week in a spate of deadly shootings that were unrelated but for one haunting thread: the shooters’ desire for attention, a forensic psychiatrist tells ABC News. “We have to take the Paris Hilton attention-seeking out of crime, or innocent people will be...

Prince William May Try Stint
as Journo

Feb 2, 2008 5:23 PM CST

Prince William May Try Stint as Journo

Reporting would show him media's point of view, handlers say

(Newser) - In an odd twist, Prince William may try a stint in journalism to train for public life, the Guardian reports. Officials say he would benefit from reporting on others, as journos will one day report on him as heir to England's throne. His handlers are also considering spells for William...

Scribe to Papers: Stop Endorsing

OPINION

Jan 31, 2008 8:19 AM CST

Scribe to Papers: Stop Endorsing

Getting behind pair of opposites—ie, Obama and McCain—is 'schizophrenic'

(Newser) - Newspapers should stop endorsing candidates, Philadelphia Daily News blogger Will Bunch writes, because the practice makes editorial pages look disingenuous. Most papers have been stepping up with one nod to a Democrat and another to a Republican, he notes; what could be more ridiculous than supporting Barack Obama and John...

Green Group Blasts Media
for Backing Off

Jan 28, 2008 2:35 PM CST

Green Group Blasts Media for Backing Off

Of 3K questions to candidates, 6 were about climate change

(Newser) - Prime-time journalists have asked this year’s presidential candidates 2,975 questions, just six of which mentioned climate change, according to one conservation group’s tally. That puts global warming just ahead of UFOs (mentioned three times) in frequency, Salon reports. “We’ve gone through the longest primary in...

Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

Jan 24, 2008 8:20 PM CST

Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

Identifying mental illness through media inaccurate, dangerous

(Newser) - The media loves to publish experts' diagnoses of Britney Spears, but assessing a patient's mental condition from gossip columns is irresponsible—and it's giving therapists a bad rep, concluded some professionals at an American Psychoanalytic Association summit. "Brains don't have a checkbox," one analyst told the AP, but...

Reshuffling Yahoo Casts Off Another Exec

Jan 16, 2008 1:58 PM CST

Reshuffling Yahoo Casts Off Another Exec

As company narrows priorities, shrinking media group is hit hard

(Newser) - Another key media honcho is leaving Yahoo, the latest casualty of the company’s effort to narrow focus and scale back peripheral operations. Vince Broady was a senior VP and headed Yahoo’s entertainment division. The New York Times Miguel Helft blogs that his departure is no surprise, given a...

Outdated Parade Cover Bares Bhutto's Death Fears

Jan 7, 2008 3:03 AM CST

Outdated Parade Cover Bares Bhutto's Death Fears

Chilling interview before her assassination

(Newser) - "Is Benazir Bhutto America's best hope against al-Qaeda?" asks the front page of this week's Parade magazine. The issue, which features an interview with the soon-to-be-assassinated Pakistani leader, went to press almost a week before Bhutto was killed. Faced with the choice of running the issue with the outdated...

Huckabee Uses Press to Extend Modest Means

Jan 2, 2008 9:44 PM CST

Huckabee Uses Press to Extend Modest Means

They don't have to like him; they just have to cover him

(Newser) - They don’t have to like me; they just have to cover me. That’s Mike Huckabee's attitude toward the media, which is doing a lot of publicity legwork for the candidate, says Time’s Michael Scherer. It doesn’t matter if the press corps gives Huck “the cold...

Things That Won't Shake
The Media World in 2008

Dec 28, 2007 7:36 PM CST

Things That Won't Shake The Media World in 2008

BusinessWeek columnist takes a stab at '08 predictions

(Newser) - Overloaded with prediction lists, Business Week polishes the crystal ball and looks ahead to see what won't happen in the media world in 2008.

The writers won't win the current strike
DreamWorks isn't going to leave Paramount after all
Apple won't reinvent TV viewing
"Juno" won't win an Oscar

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Online TV Ads More Effective

Dec 27, 2007 3:33 PM CST

Online TV Ads More Effective

Internet viewers find content, advertising more 'engaging' than in conventional spots

(Newser) - Online video advertising is dramatically more effective than conventional TV commercials, a new study finds. Individuals viewing television shows online were found to be 47% more engaged by advertising than other viewers were by commercials during traditional broadcasts, and 25% more engaged by the programming itself, Ars Technica reports.

Le Beau Sarko Vexes French

Dec 23, 2007 1:20 PM CST

Le Beau Sarko Vexes French

Tiny Casanova's antics create cult status as some deride his lack of decorum

(Newser) - He ain't your daddy's Jacques Chirac, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy's escapades have his countrymen both enthralled and concerned, reports the Guardian. His rollercoaster love life provides delicious gossip to a public that buys "I love Sarko" skivvies, and the tiny dynamo poses for intimate photo shoots and traipses...

NCAA Puts Limits on Live Blog Coverage

Dec 20, 2007 5:15 PM CST

NCAA Puts Limits on Live Blog Coverage

Policy restricts number of posts per game from field, courtside

(Newser) - The NCAA has set new rules for live-blogging of sporting events, limiting the amount of times a blogger can post new information during a game in an effort to fight a perceived simulacrum of re-broadcasting, Techdirt reports. The new rules are a compromise after an incident in June when a...

Murdoch Grooms Son to Succeed Him

Dec 7, 2007 5:56 AM CST

Murdoch Grooms Son to Succeed Him

James to be promoted to head News Corp. in Europe and Asia

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's son James will be put in charge of News Corp. in Europe and Asia, making him heir apparent to his father's throne, sources tell Bloomberg. James has been in charge of pay-TV provider British Sky Broadcasting Group since 2003; during his tenure the company has more than doubled...

Tobacco Giant Drops Print
Ads for 2008

Nov 28, 2007 3:27 PM CST

Tobacco Giant Drops Print Ads for 2008

RJ Reynolds says Rolling Stone flap not an issue in decision

(Newser) - RJ Reynolds won’t buy print ads next year, a break with the tobacco giant's tradition of using newspapers and magazines to reach customers, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. The announcement came the same day an anti-smoking group lambasted RJR and Rolling Stone for four pages of ads abutting a Nov....

Newspapers Look to Make Connections

Nov 28, 2007 10:26 AM CST

Newspapers Look to Make Connections

Trying to reach younger readers, more will link to Facebook and MySpace

(Newser) - Newspapers readers at an increasing pace are turning to Pluck, a media syndication company, to link their sites to social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, giving them access to 165 million users, Reuters reports. Pluck will use the Facebook programming interface and Google's OpenSocial system to share information between its...

Media Frenzy Creates Trial
by Gossip

Nov 15, 2007 8:31 AM CST

Media Frenzy Creates Trial by Gossip

Facts get muddled in high-profile cases, writer complains

(Newser) - The media frenzy over high-profile international cases like those of missing girl Madeleine McCann and murdered student Meredith Kercher makes it nearly impossible for the justice system to function, writes Times of London columnist Magnus Linklater. Neither case, he writes, "has demonstrated the two prerequisites of a just legal...

Press Praises Barack and Fred, Knocks McCain

Oct 30, 2007 7:59 PM CDT

Press Praises Barack and Fred, Knocks McCain

More balanced with Hillary, Giuliani

(Newser) - The press gives Obama and Fred Thompson upbeat coverage, John McCain a hard time, and balances reporting on Hillary and Giuliani, says the Hollywood Reporter. A new study shows that Obama and Thompson received positive coverage in half of their 2007 stories, while McCain's were 48% negative and 12% positive....

Google Partners With Nielsen to Tackle TV Ads

Oct 24, 2007 12:21 PM CDT

Google Partners With Nielsen to Tackle TV Ads

Net giant and ratings experts to bring internet-style accountability to TV ads

(Newser) - Google’s enormously successful advertising tracking system is making the move to television, reports The New York Times, in a partnership with television ratings expert Nielsen. With the growing popularity of digital video recorders and download services that allowstelevision watchers to time shift skip ads on their television sets, advertisers...