Mainstream Media
In a strong indication that, among journalistic practitioners, the biased media narrative is more a matter of intellectual laziness than cultural duplicity, the latest canned story, by Los Angeles Times reporter Don Lee, is that workplace discrimination is landing men the great majority of “newly created” jobs: Since the recession ended in June 2009, men…
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You used to be able to read the Woonsocket Call on-line. Sometime in the last ten days, however, that changed. Now, when you click on an article, you get only the first paragraph or two followed by a non-clickable directive. Example below from today’s (I think) paper. WOONSOCKET — After receiving a quarter of its…
As Matt Allen tweeted me last week, “Well isn’t this fun.” And yes it was! Thanks to all who voted and especially thanks to the local media who participated in “electronic canvassing” for our scientific bragging-rights Anchor Rising Readers Poll covering the Local RI Media. In addition to bragging rights, every winner can download a…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 Thanks to all who have voted so far in the Anchor Rising Readers Poll! There are still a couple days left, so for the sake of convenience I’ve compiled all the questions together in one post. Read on “after the jump” to see the current results and vote in categories…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fifth and final “question” in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Radio News/Info/Advice/Lifestyle type talk shows. As I looked for “candidates”, I discovered that there was such a broad array of shows that I broke them up into a few categories. Here are the groups with choices (listed…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fourth question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Media Investigative Team. Caveats: 1) had to have statewide coverage; 2) couldn’t be from an overtly partisan outlet or advocacy group (that eliminates us at AR as well as folks like RI Future’s Bob Plain or that guy Justin…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The third question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Electronic Media News Team.* The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to Rhode Island based; 2) Had to provide local news coverage w/actual in-the-field reporters.** 3) Had to be non-partisan (so no RIFuture or Ocean…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The second question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Political Roundtable Show* (TV & Radio). The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to be a show based in Rhode Island (so no Boston-based shows); 2) Had to focus primarily on news and political analysis with…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 This is the first in a series of polls that I’m putting together this week to find out who our readers turn to for their news and political analysis in the Mainstream Media (that means no bloggers or website-based organizations