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Sunday, February 08, 2004 Are John Zogby's MSNBC Tracking Polls Trustworthy?
Something to note when MSNBC reports its Zogby tracking poll numbers, and other cablers repeat them: In tomorrow's USN≀, Michael Barone examines John's "unorthodox" and "controversial" polling methods. Barone gets Warren Mitofsky to offer up a negative quote: "Zogby is not a reputable pollster. He is more a salesman and a self-promoter than a pollster." 11:57:58 PM Can Dennis Miller's Show Be Saved?
At ChronWatch, Ira Simmons asks if Dennis Miller's show can be saved. "While there is some promise, the ''Dennis Miller Show'' needs something of a major overhaul. I say, shorten the show to 30 minutes, bring in a live studio audience, tell a few jokes, have a guest or two, and most important, eliminate that boring and ineffective Varsity Panel. And maybe shoot the monkey! 11:56:01 PM Quote of the day
Brian Williams in Monday's NYTimes: "The whole point of news is to communicate what's important. If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused, as programmers in non-news do, of simply giving people what they want.'' (Update: This quote is from Eric Ober, a former president of CBS News) 11:53:40 PM "Topic A" Begins Weekly Run; Media Person of Year Will Be Unveiled
"Topic A with Tina Brown" goes weekly beginning tonight. The show airs at 8pm and 11pm on CNBC. the Media Person of the Year will be revealed on the show. Readers of iwantmedia.com and The Week magazine cast thousands of votes. "Among the candidates: Roger Ailes, David Bloom, Aaron Brown, Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Peter Jennings, Howard Stern, Jon Stewart, and TiVo." Tune in for the winner... 5:36:37 PM "Breathtaking Media Explosion:" 633 Repeats of Dean Scream
The AP pulls in some quotes about the "breathtaking media explosion" that followed Dean's Iowa speech. Quoting Princell Hair: "It was a big story, but the challenge in a 24-hour news network is that you try to keep all of your different viewers throughout the day informed without overdoing it." Hotline counted it up -- "the cable and broadcast news networks aired Dean's Iowa exclamation 633 times - and that doesn't include local news or talk shows - in the four days after it was made"... 5:09:00 PM How Well Do You Know Your Pundits?
"Test your knowledge of TV politics" in the Santa Cruz Sentinel this morning. "If you scored 100 percent, you have missed the last several episodes of '24.'" (That's me -- these primaries have interrupted my Tuesday night... 8:37:43 AM MSNBC Suits Credit Joe Trippi with Ratings Rise
The NYTimes reports on Joe Trippi's MSNBC stint, and says that "executives credited him for helping raise the network's ratings." Phil Griffin: "It's the closest we've been to CNN on a big political news night in terms of share." John Tierney says that "Mr. Trippi was generally evenhanded in his comments, perhaps too evenhanded for viewers hoping for candid analysis from an insider who had just been ousted from the leadership of a campaign"... 2:14:57 AM "Political Entertainments"
NYTimes describes Bill Maher and Dennis Miller: "Today every comic is a pundit, every guest an analyst, and every new talk show — or so it seems — belongs to a category best described as political entertainments." 2:13:05 AM MSNBC Airing Special "Meet the Press"
MSNBC will re-air Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" interview with President Bush at 5:00pm Sunday. It's Bush's "Sunday morning show presidential appearance, from the Oval Office, for the full hour." 2:12:04 AM Random Thoughts: Back to CNN's Graphical Good Ole Days...
CNN reaired a Larry King Live interview, complete with the pre-9/11 graphics (sadly, I don't know how else to date them; they were circa 2001). It was a Janet Jackson chat. It reminded me how much I miss those lower-thirds... 1:42:34 AM |
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