Category Archives: Media Criticism

Media Criticism

Don’t Know Much About History

You know, I’d be embarrassed to ask a question like this:

Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam?

Particularly given the resource of the Internet. But I guess some people wear their ignorance with pride.

Media Criticism

Don’t Know Much About History

You know, I’d be embarrassed to ask a question like this:

Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam?

Particularly given the resource of the Internet. But I guess some people wear their ignorance with pride.

Media Criticism

Don’t Know Much About History

You know, I’d be embarrassed to ask a question like this:

Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam?

Particularly given the resource of the Internet. But I guess some people wear their ignorance with pride.

Media Criticism

Taking A Conference Break

I’m sitting in a session that consists of “speed dating” business plans. I haven’t heard one worth blogging.

But now for something completely different. This is pretty funny–the wishing well:

The list of people to get Fox News Channel’s best wishes in print lengthens all the time. Here are some others:

* Ted Turner. The CNN founder called Fox a “propaganda voice” of the Bush administration and compared its popularity to Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany before World War II. Briganti: “Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind. We wish him well.”