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- Posted Feb 06, 2012
- CNN's Political Contributor Problem, Part 3
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Roland Martin has now become the third CNN political analyst to cause controversy this year. Last month, Dana Loesch celebrated U.S. Marines who had urinated on Taliban corpses, announcing, "I'd drop trou and do it too." Last week, Erick Erickson celebrated the tasing of an Occupy D.C. protester, saying, "Watching a hippie protester get tased just makes my day." Now, the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is calling for Martin's removal from the network for a comment he made on Twitter about H&M's Super Bowl ad featuring a near-naked David Beckham: "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!"
- Posted Feb 03, 2012
- Journalists Reluctant Stars in 2012 Ads
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Tom Brokaw may not have appreciated his starring role in the most widely broadcast attack ad in Florida last weekend, but he was far from alone. Everyone from Diane Sawyer to Wolf Blitzer to Ed Schultz to Rush Limbaugh has appeared in this season’s crop of negative advertisements, often to the great dismay of their employers. “We always find it objectionable for a campaign to use any of our anchors in their ads,” CNN spokeswoman Edie Emery said in response to Blitzer’s cameo in a Ron Paul ad attacking Newt Gingrich as a “serial hypocrite.”
But the reasons that journalists and news organizations give for their objections can vary pretty widely, from fears of reputational damage, to charges of breaching copyright law, to annoyance at being quoted out of context.
- Posted Jan 27, 2012
- Comcast, NBC Move Broadcast Museum Closer to Opening
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Chicago’s nearly completed Museum of Broadcast Communications took another big step forward Thursday with the announcement of a $2.7 million grant from Comcast Corp., NBC News and NBC 5 Chicago.
A jubilant Bruce DuMont, founder, president and CEO of the museum, called it the biggest infusion of support since Governor Pat Quinn fulfilled the state’s long-delayed capital development grant of $6 million in 2010.
“We are grateful to have Comcast, NBC News, and NBC 5 Chicago — institutions that have contributed so much to the history of television — show so much support for our new facility,” DuMont said in a statement. “We are excited to open our doors and share the experience with visitors.”
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Media Narrative Turns to Florida
As he surged in the polls and won in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich did not so much receive better coverage in the news media as simply more of it. PEJ’s ongoing analysis of the press coverage of the campaign, “Campaign 2012 in the Media” finds that Gingrich now is getting more attention than Romney but both not necessarily a more positive one as the candidates head to Florida. Journalism.org has the full story.
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