The Washington Post published what they call an "appreciation" these days. It honors WaPo Editor Ben Bradlee in the week that he died.
I first started hearing that "appreciation" term used on a regular basis on NPR. I suppose it is a way to admit up front that the piece you are about to hear is NOT a balanced piece of journalism, but a kind of homage to the subject.
Ironically, another "name" in journalism also passed the same week....and NPR did as expected with a double barreled appreciation to Bradlee and one-time NPR President Frank Mankiewicz. Worth a listen if you missed it.
The On The Media radio show this past week critiqued the U.S. media for focusing on ebola in the U.S., even though almost all of the deaths and cases are in Africa.
This may be a case of a media criticism show looking for something to criticize. The mantra of the media is LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL...and OTM should know that.
CINEMA
Nightcrawler tells a media story starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a reporter who covers the crime-beat.
“My opinion of the media is that it has a tremendous power,” says Gyllenhaal, “but the power that the media has is actually given to them by their audience — us. So it seems we’re complicit. If we have a problem with the stories that are being told, that is us.”
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal in a The NY Daily News article.
And the fallout from the events that inspired the recent movie "Kill The Messenger" continues.
Salon has written an in-depth story about the story---defending journalist Gary Webb's groundbreaking 1996 story that the CIA was complicit in the use of drug profits to fund the Contra war in Nicaragua in the 1980s. (though probably not the intentional creation of the crack-cocaine crisis that devastated the black community in America.)
Take a break from Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and the rest of the one line reporting, and read the Salon story. If you follow or work in the media, I suspect it will hold your attention past the first 140 characters.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of TimLennox.com]
I first started hearing that "appreciation" term used on a regular basis on NPR. I suppose it is a way to admit up front that the piece you are about to hear is NOT a balanced piece of journalism, but a kind of homage to the subject.
Ironically, another "name" in journalism also passed the same week....and NPR did as expected with a double barreled appreciation to Bradlee and one-time NPR President Frank Mankiewicz. Worth a listen if you missed it.
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The On The Media radio show this past week critiqued the U.S. media for focusing on ebola in the U.S., even though almost all of the deaths and cases are in Africa.
This may be a case of a media criticism show looking for something to criticize. The mantra of the media is LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL...and OTM should know that.
CINEMA
Nightcrawler tells a media story starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a reporter who covers the crime-beat.
“My opinion of the media is that it has a tremendous power,” says Gyllenhaal, “but the power that the media has is actually given to them by their audience — us. So it seems we’re complicit. If we have a problem with the stories that are being told, that is us.”
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal in a The NY Daily News article.
And the fallout from the events that inspired the recent movie "Kill The Messenger" continues.
Salon has written an in-depth story about the story---defending journalist Gary Webb's groundbreaking 1996 story that the CIA was complicit in the use of drug profits to fund the Contra war in Nicaragua in the 1980s. (though probably not the intentional creation of the crack-cocaine crisis that devastated the black community in America.)
Take a break from Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and the rest of the one line reporting, and read the Salon story. If you follow or work in the media, I suspect it will hold your attention past the first 140 characters.
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And former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkinson is out with a book blasting CBS. You can read the lengthy cheering-section story about it in The New York Post (owned by FOX) . Or buy the book. “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction,
Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington” (Harper).
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of TimLennox.com]
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