Deep Throat Not What He Used to Be The Washington Post’s Dan Balz (8/14/12) somehow convinced a “senior Romney advisor” to reveal a stunning secret that could only be disclosed “on the condition of anonymity”—that Mitt Romney felt good about his vice presidential pick: “He was very confident in himself, in Paul Ryan, in the campaign and in the direction of the campaign he wanted to take.” Believe it or not, the Post’s Felicia Sonmez (8/17/12) topped this scoop by talking to “a senior Republican adviser”—no doubt in a deserted parking garage—who admitted anonymously that Ryan likes Romney too: “He [...]
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Jul
01
2005
Opinion Omission
Women hard to find on op-ed pages, TV panels
By Julie Hollar
When Susan Estrich launched a public attack in February on Los Angeles Times op-ed page editor Michael Kinsley for not including enough women on his pages, it made a brief stir in certain (mostly female) circles of the media. But the problem runs deeper than the op-ed pages of prominent newspapers; female opinions are muted across the media, and progress in recent years has slowed to a crawl. Estrich’s ire was provoked by a Times op-ed (2/13/05) by Charlotte Allen of the conservative Independent Women’s Forum headlined, “Feminist Fatale: Where Are the Great Women Thinkers? Thinking So Much About Women [...]
Apr
01
1993
An NPR Report on Dioxin
How "Neutral" Experts Can Slant a Story
FAIR's four-month study of National Public Radio found that All Things Considered and Morning Edition devoted less than 2 percent of stories -- 45out of 2,296 -- to the environment. This parallels commercial broadcasting trends, where coverage of the environment has been declining since 1990 (Tyndall Report1/92). Here, as in other subject areas, NPR tended to follow commercial journalistic conventions. Most commonly (38 percent of cases), the lead source for environmental stories was a government official. Journalists and academic experts accounted for another 20 percent of lead sources, and were the most likely to be quoted at length. Corporate spokespeople [...]
Mar
29
1993
Study Finds National Public Radio Fails To Reflect Public
A study of National Public Radio commissioned by FAIR indicates that public radio's leading news programs fail-- in reporting, analysis and commentary-- to reflect the diversity of the public. The study, conducted by Charlotte Ryan of the Boston College Media Research and Action Project, examined transcripts of all weekday broadcasts of All Things Considered and Morning Edition from September through December 1991. It focused on who gets heard on NPR as "newsmakers," analysts and commentators-- and who doesn't. The four-month study found that in selecting news sources, NPR titled toward government officials and representatives of establishment and conservative think tanks. [...]
