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Monday, January 26, 2004 Schonfeld: "Roger Ailes is producing great tabloid" TV
Speaking of Reese, he has a couple site updates today. Commenting on CNN's shakeup: "It’s as if someone at CNN thinks its tepid ratings result from a lack of bureaucrats." Heh...and then he compliments FOX: "Roger Ailes is producing great tabloid television." (Then again, is calling the network "tabloid" really a compliment?) 11:49:09 PM "The Most Exclusive Howard Dean Interview"
Well, Chris had his "exclusive" Dr. Dean interview tonight -- as did Wolf, and Aaron Brown during NewsNight. But my favorite Dean interview tonight was by Jon Stewart. They called it "the Most Exclusive Howard Dean Interview." Great segment! 11:48:31 PM How Can CNN Be Fixed? Viewers Chime In
A great thread discussing CNN is hot at TV Spy. My favorite quote: "Keep this in mind: through all this upheaval, CNN has still maintained its massive international newsgathering operation, even though they could save money and just rehash the wires like FOX. I don't know too many American nets who have a bureau in Jakarta or Havana. CNN has viewership problems, it has imagination problems and it has a history of management problems. But integrity is another matter." Some posters suggest Reese Schonfeld should come back and make news the star again... 11:48:24 PM
Not So Exclusive After All, Eh Chris? I called Chris Matthew's so-called "exclusive" Dean interview sloppy seconds, but it's worse than that: "Unfortunately the "exclusive' was given to every cabler," a source wrote in this evening. Wolf Blitzer aired a similar interview during his 5pm hour, for example. He took a swipe at the news media during his CNN interview: "They're an entertainment businesses at least as much as the news media," he said... 8:58:35 PM Photos of FOX's N.H. Headquarters
Greta takes FOXNews.com readers behind the scenes of the channel's N.H. studio: "I was once again stunned when I arrived at the Fox "Manchester" bureau. The place is amazing! It is as though a major city bureau were lifted from its location and set down here." Here are photos... 8:55:15 PM Like FOX Was Reading From Cheney's Script
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed FOX's ..unique.. presentation of the Kay story. "Yesterday when they reported the David Kay story, they spun it so bad, it seemed like Dick Cheney himself wrote the story," a Watercooler member writes. 8:12:30 PM Hardball's "Exclusive" Dean Interview
This is called sloppy seconds: "MSNBC's Chris Matthews spoke exclusively this afternoon with Democratic Presidential candidate, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, and his wife, Dr. Judy Steinberg Dean. The interview will air in its entirety tonight" at 7pm. press release says. Wait, wasn't Diane's interview exclusive?... 5:38:05 PM FOX News Relocates to the Granite State (Temporarily)
FOX has headed north for the next two days, anchoring virtually all of their early prime and primetime programming from New Hampshire. Shep Smith is hosting Studio B from there now; Special Report, the FOX Report, Hannity & Colmes, and On the Record are all going on the road for the primary, a FOX P.R. says. Their NH newsroom is certainly an improvement on Iowa's backdrop... 3:38:52 PM Matthews has "the political penal colony to beat this election year"
Am I blind? Apparently I missed this great Joe Hagan Observer column praising MSNBC's caucus coverage, and explaining why CNN and FOX didn't match Matthews and company. "...If his performance on caucus night...was a harbinger of the political coverage to come in this year’s Presidential campaign, then Mr. Matthews has the political penal colony to beat this election year." Nice story -- better to link late than never. 3:31:59 PM CNBC PR: "Capital Report" Campaign Coverage
CNBC's primary coverage tomorrow night will feature two special contributors, a press release says. Joe Lockhart and Susan Molinari will join Alan Murray and Gloria Borger. The P.R. also discusses Capital Report's campaign plans... 3:24:09 PM Quote of the day
Howard Kurtz explains how "the other campaigns, especially the Dean folks, are starting to complain that the Massachusetts senator isn't getting the kind of media scrutiny that had previously been applied to, say, front-runners named Howard. And they're right. 11:44:21 AM What a Difference the Angle Makes
A tale of two stories: In a package from the Pentagon, CNN's Chris Plante played excerpts from Kay's NPR interview. The headline was "WMD Doubts," and the chyron summarized the report: "Former weapons hunter suspects bad intelligence." A straight-forward summary. ++ A minute later, Wendell Goler had a live report on FOX. His lead: "Saddam's Folly" -- how Saddam pretended to have WMD. He also contrasted Kay's assessment with a Cheney speech yesterday in Rome, warning of terrorist intentions. Goler concluded with a snippet that said "Kay does not blame the White House for the conclusion they reached." It's all about the way a story is packaged... (Update: DU points to similar "spin.") 11:43:30 AM Does Princell Need To Step Inside The Newsroom More Often?
TVWeek's Insider column shares an anecdote that suggests "how little contact there has been between [CNN head Princell] Hair and those who actually keep the 24-hour news machinery at CNN gassed up while their on-the-go leader 'just goes wherever he goes and does whatever he does.'" Wow, that's that sound I hear? An ax grinding?... 10:04:15 AM "N.H. media stampede as frantic as politicking"
That's the headline for a Atlanta Journal-Constitution today. Here's the money line: "With 500 reporters and dozens of camera crews now stationed in New Hampshire for Tuesday's primary, media mob scenes like the one at the Newport skating pond are as common as subfreezing temperatures." Some good quotes... 9:39:59 AM ! Dennis Miller Has One Hell Of A P.R. Team
If the ratings aren't high for his show tonight, it's not for a lack of trying. Here's a partial summary of stories in Monday's dead-trees: > Associated Press: David Bauder's piece is reprinted in many papers. Interesting lead... > USA Today: He's the lead in a politics/comedy convergence analysis > Reuters: Distributing a Hollywood Reporter preview of his show > WashPost: Out & About column notes his presence in DC 12:49:56 AM Praise for C-SPAN's Raw Campaign Coverage
Poli-junkies can "embed themselves in campaigns" thanks to C-SPAN, the NYTimes writes in Monday editions. "You cannot help but be influenced by who is presenting the programs on the news channels," a Miami-Dade College social science professor says. "At the beginning, C-Span might be boring, but it allows you to come to your own conclusions." 12:48:04 AM CNN Shakeup: "Fusing" The "Detached" Parts of CNN
The Hollywood Reporter quotes an unnamed CNN exec: "One of the things that has happened at CNN over the years is that there were really different CNNs: There was the news-gathering part of CNN, and there was the on-the-air part of CNN, and they were very particularly detached. One of the things [Jim Walton] and Princell have focused on is fusing them together." Interesting take... 12:33:04 AM Kurtz Profiles Brokaw & His Last Election Season
Nice piece in the Post Monday morning describing Tom's experiences on the campaign trail, contrast with the future (blogging's mainstream media darling, Josh Marshall, gets a shout-out). Brokaw promises that he won't "sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup." I wonder if they get cable?... 12:32:46 AM |
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