Considering this “mental recession” we’re in, and considering how much we’ve, apparently, been whining about said recession, I was fairly shocked to see the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s news index for this week: That’s right, folks: apparently, only 3 percent—3 percent!—of this week’s news hole was occupied in the classic American pasttime that is […]

Yesterday, the Publishers Information Bureau released its report tracking magazine ad sales during the second quarter of 2008. The news is, as is generally the case when the news in question combines “journalism” and “ad revenue,” not good. Magazine sales fell, overall, more than 8 percent in the second quarter of 2008. Here are the […]

Think Progress (via Matt Yglesias) has a list of some of the more egregious moments of political reporters publicly crushing on John McCain. Without further comment: McCain barbeques: “He was wearing a sweatshirt with a lithograph photo of his family — like a Christmas card picture. So just another grandpa at the grill.” [Mike Allen, […]

So the people at Fox & Friends aren’t feeling so Fox-&-Friendly, apparently, toward The New York Times. On June 28, the Times published an article, “Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In,” written by media reporter Jacques Steinberg and edited by TV editor Steven Reddicliffe, that discussed “ominous trends” in the network’s viewership: The most […]

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On Unity Day, the voice of anti-Unity was everywhere

Per the television transcript database TVEyes.com, and without further comment, below are the number of uses of the word “unity” in cable, network, and local news broadcasts over the past six days: Wednesday, June 25: 0Thursday, June 26: 0Friday, June 27: 2,198 Saturday, June 28: 1,558 Sunday, June 29: 509Monday, June 30: 142

New Hampshire’s own Ken Burns is in the audience, witnessing UNITY first-hand! Ironically–or, perhaps, fittingly–MSNBC’s cameras, when focusing on the famous documentarian, slowly panned across his smiling face. Talk about added Unity Drama!

…and other revelations from the Rolling Stone Q&A