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- 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.”
- Posted Jan 24, 2012
- Julian Assange Is Getting His Own TV Show
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Julian Assange has announced that he's going to have his own TV show, where he'll interview "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries", and it's going to be hitting the screens in spring. Is there anything this man won't do? The announcement was made on the WikiLeaks website yesterday, and explained how Assange is "uniquely placed to catalyse a global discussion" on future political change. There are going to be ten whole episodes, apparently, and they will air in mid-March. There's currently no word on where the show will be broadcast, or on which networks, though the statement describes that it will reach "600m viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks".
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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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