Media Monitor
‘Rubber Stamp’ Camp plays it safe, as does local media
Whoa. We have a two-fer. Not only does the 4th Congressional District’s Rep. Dave “Rubber Stamp” Camp not stick his neck out personally, demanding everybody else in Congress do something about energy prices, but WJRT-TV of Flint/Saginaw takes dictation.
I like this bit in particular:
“Local leaders agree with Camp that now is the time for Congress to [...]
Mining Journal: Maybe not totally ‘craptastic’?
My colleague LoRayne Apo-Joynt recently blogged about her frustration with the Marquette Mining Journal. Given her difficult experience with the paper, I am happy to report that the cover of last weekend’s Sunday edition featured an excellent series by Miriam Moeller on the Protect the Earth Summit.
American race coverage makes a strong debut. But what’s missing?
CNN gets ambitious with “Black in America” special, while MSNBC takes a peek at “Multicultural in America”
The Mining Journal is craptastic daily news for Yoopers, eh!
Not fit for wrapping fish, says this reader
Newsweek does a disservice to murder victim
Larry King was a flamboyant 15-year-old murdered in February in what some have labeled a gay-bias crime. Newsweek’s coverage of the murder shows exactly why anti-bias laws have to be expanded in Michigan — because mainstream media is still blaming victims
[COMMENTARY] Sitting on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday morning waiting for a press [...]
Big media monopoly, not ad dollars, behind Free Press canning popular community papers
[COMMENTARY] News late last month that the Detroit Free Press will print its last editions of the Community Free Press on Aug. 1 stunned the reporters, editors, photographers and myriad freelancers who’ve diligently worked to make those mini-papers popular with readers.
In Detroit and 10 suburban areas where they circulate, the CFPs have managed to give [...]
They held the story, and won the prize
[COMMENTARY] How often has Columbia University bestowed its coveted Pulitzer Prize for national news reporting on reporters who DECLINED to publish a huge story?
At least once. It happened in the case of Clark Hoyt and Robert Boyd, who received the 1973 Pulitzer for their gumshoe work uncovering the psychiatric hospitalizations of then U.S. Sen. Thomas [...]
Study: Mainstream news disappears workers
Michigan may lead the country with its unemployment rate, but if you are looking to the mainstream media for help understanding what this means for people living here — good luck!
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Think Kwamegate is big? A bigger story is out there
Sometimes small is big.
And sometimes big is small.
The steam rising from the Detroit Free Press’ revelation of the text messages between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and former paramour Christine Beatty has really roasted the mayor, what with allegations and now charges of perjury and the threat that his lies-under-oath, [...]
‘Compact’ Free Press might just shrink out of existence
Could Michigan’s oldest newspaper become a tabloid?
Hey, it could be worse.
The Detroit Free Press could wind up just as its top editors envision it — a skimpy rag for home subscribers who pay for it and something slightly more substantial as a freebie on the web.
Hey, isn’t that what they’re doing now?
Believe me, folks, if [...]