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Re: Newspaper's fading election glory

reid — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:30:45 -0000

Dan,

Loved the Huffington Post column about the Jon Stewart flap, and for the most part I agree with you.

And even though I hate to do this, I have to call you out for either being lazy in your reporting, or for using a questionable source to benefit your column's stance.

The “study" conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, and which you referenced in your column, was:

–originally published in August of 2008, making this old news

–a study “based on telephone interviews conducted April 30 to June 1, 2008 among a nationwide sample of 3,615 adults, 18 years of age, or older.”

Only 3,615 people? Is that a fair representation of US citizen's opinions and worthy of supporting material? And I question the demographics considering none of the literate people I know answers calls from telemarketers anymore.

Feel free to reseach the Pew report's methods here: http://people-press.org/rep...

Re: Newspaper's fading election glory

sinker — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:56:45 -0000

Thanks Nicole!

There has been a second section of Online Journalism opened up, by the way. Fridays 12:30-3:20.

Re: Newspaper's fading election glory

Nicole Way — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:54:56 -0000

You gave a great mini-lecture in Judith's class a few weeks ago and I'm terrible sad I can't get into your new media class...but you did inspire me to not give up on blogging. Hurrah!

Anyway, I wanted to share a link on the use of new media to report on the attacks in India today. I thought you might appreciate it.

http://blog.wired.com/defen...

Re: Newspaper's fading election glory

sinker — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:35:40 -0000

That happened all over the place. Here in Chicago, there were crowds at the printing plants, trying to buy newspapers straight from the source. It made for wonderful images--lines of people waiting to get their hands on a paper--and I'm sure more than one newspaper CEO imagined that their national nightmare was over. But really: Who was picking the newspaper up for NEWS on Wednesday? Nobody. Everyone knew who won the election, by how much, etc. People were picking up a memento. Something they could show their grandparents or something they could sell on ebay. That's not encouraging in terms of the future of newspapers, any more than the Franklin Mint is encouraging about the future of dinnerware.

Re: Newspaper's fading election glory

kira — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:11:30 -0000

True. But I think this is encouraging:

http://www.washingtonpost.c...