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IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...
by Jon Margolis Feb 02, 2010 -
You talkin’ to us, Mr. President?
Sure sounded that way:
“The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates to silly arguments, big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away,” he said toward the end of his State of the Union speech.
Today's Media News
- New Orleans Saints were media magnet in Super Bowl XLIV
Dave Walker, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 8, 2010 - What Will Happen to Media When All the Billionaires Bail?
Simon Dumenco, Advertising Age, February 8, 2010 - 'The View' gets political -- viewers love it (and so does D.C.)
Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2010 - White House press corps feels bypassed by Obama in favor of TV shows, YouTube
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, February 8, 2010 - The Next Glenn Beck
Samuel P. Jacobs, The Daily Beast, February 7, 2010 - Tribune Co. D.C. Deputy Named 'Wall St. Journal' National Politics Editor
Editor & Publisher, February 7, 2010 - 'N.Y. Times' Ombudsman: I'd Transfer Jerusalem Bureau Chief With Son in Israeli Army
Editor & Publisher, February 7, 2010 - CNN to Guarantee 'Away' Audience
Anthony Crupi, Media Week, February 7, 2010 - George Stephanopoulos on the celebrity beat
Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2010 - Plentiful Content, So Cheap
David Carr, New York Times, February 7, 2010
Articles
One the morning of Election Day, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s campaign last year, was on NBC’s Today show to plug his new book, The Audacity to Win. But first, co-host Meredith Vieira had to ask him about that day’s elections
Anybody who’s been in this business for a week or more has heard the gripe of someone who lost all faith in news coverage the first time there was a story in the neighborhood
Way back when I was still young and green enough to be thrilled to be in possession of an honest-to-God press pass, an old-timer passed on a piece of wisdom. “Having a press pass,” he said, “has kept me out of a lot of places I coulda gotten into if I hadn’t had a press pass.”
Are we all forgetting something?
Or, more precisely, ignoring something? Well, not entirely, at least not any more. Not since Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times declared that one reason for the current political tumult
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Bill Kovach Honored

Bill Kovach, founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists,will receive the National Press Foundation’s 2010 W.M. Kiplinger Award.
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