FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
How’s this for a business model for new media? Have people talk about products, and let the corporations who make the products pay to control the conversation. That’s Gawker‘s new sure-fire money-making scheme, according to CJR (5/24/12), which quotes a memo from the media gossip site: “In two years, our primary offering to marketers will […]
Noticing that Democratic strategist Mark Penn “is the Wall Street Journal‘s ‘Microtrend’-spotting columnist” and “also CEO of PR giant Burson-Marsteller,” Gawker blogger Hamilton Nolan (8/26/09) posits that “only a scumbag would abuse the former to drum up business for the latter.” Alas, “Scumbag spotted!” is Nolan’s cry when writing that Penn’s latest (old, and none […]
Gawker blogger The Cajun Boy (6/24/09) is agog at “How Fox News Educates Its Viewers”: Last night Glenn Beck made crude drawings on a chalkboard, and tonight he and Bill O’Reilly used Barbie dolls to explain ACORN. In the course of explaining how Nancy Pelosi is trying to stop noble Republicans from stopping ACORN from […]
The website Gawker (6/9/09) caught Newsweek making some sneaky changes in an online article—changes that were ordered by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, and which just happened to favor the host of a show that Meacham appears on regularly. On the afternoon of Friday, June 5, Newsweek‘s website put up an interview with Joe Scarborough, the […]
Bill Clinton was roundly condemned by right-wing talk radio hosts and their allies for “politicizing” the Oklahoma City bombing, but his basic point is undeniable: There is much speech on the radio today that advocates or justifies violence.
