Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Whiskey Bar: People's Choice

Whiskey Bar: People's Choice

People's Choice

Fox News was the only cable news network to see gains in primetime during February and beat all other cable news outlets combined for the sixth straight month. FNC averaged 1.57 million viewers in primetime, up 18% from the same period last year, while CNN fell 21% to 637,000 viewers from the same time period.

Variety
CNN flops in February as Fox News surges
March 1, 2005

The Völkischer Beobachter was since 1920 the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). It first appeared weekly, and since February 8, 1923, daily . . . The circulation rose along with the success of the Nazi movement, reaching more than 120,000 in 1931 and 1.7 million by 1944.

what-means.com
Article on the Völkischer Beobachter

Wandering among the stacks, Karl discovered a trove of German newspapers from the 1930s, including the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party's propaganda organ. It was all there in the papers. "Appalling stuff," he recalls . . . Hate speech. Much of it crude, if not outright vicious, but also at times insidiously clever disinformation. But it was also eye-opening . . . "For the first time," he says, "I understood how it was done, how the Germans had become so misguided."

Berlin Journal
Giving Something Back
Spring 2003

"There is a sense now [that] there is money in the flag. And Fox knows that and its competitors know that Fox is onto something."

Former Fox News reporter Alexander Kippen
Interviewed in Outfoxed
2004

I reject the standpoint that there is in Germany a Catholic and a Protestant press, or a workers' press, or a farmers' press, or a city press or a proletarian press. There exists only a German press.

Joseph Goebbels
As quoted by David Irving in Hitler's War
1977

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

What Can Bloggers Do That Reporters Can't?

By Jack Shafer
Posted Friday, April 8, 2005, at 8:29 PM PT

Not that long ago, you had to be a professional reporter to publish defective copy. Not any more. Thanks to blogs, the journalist monopoly on the wide-scale propagation of blunders, boo-boos, and bloopers has vanished. Now, complete amateurs can embarrass themselves before huge audiences.

Bloggers demonstrated their skill at botching a story last month when a swarm of them accused the Washington Post and ABC News of journalistic malpractice. The two news organizations had reported on the existence of a GOP talking-points memo about Terri Schiavo. The bloggers asserted it was a Ratherian fake. As Eric Boehlert details in Salon, the nay-saying blogs consumed terabytes of bandwidth denouncing the Post and ABC. Powerline, Michelle Malkin, the American Spectator's Prowler, PoliPundit, and Accuracy in Media led the charge.

After the Post and others proved the legitimacy of the document on April 7, bloggers proved themselves the equals of their mainstream media colleagues once more by ignoring or glossing over their goof. Boehlert writes, "scanning the blogs involved in the memo story, readers found few corrections or references to lessons learned."

Read the rest of the article here.

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