Morning Reading List, 11.27.07

Good morning Washington. You are not encouraging your kids to follow in your journalism footsteps. Television An ABC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research for the week of November 12, 2007, ABC News' 'Nightline' outperformed CBS' 'Late Show with David Letterman' among total viewers and Adults 25-54. In addition, 'Nightline' continues to close the gaps with 'Letterman' and 'Leno' among total viewers and Adults 25-54." "The Carville-Matalin Joke Is on Us" New York Magazine reports, "Dan Rather's Last Big Story Is Himself" Brokaw disses Limbaugh. New York Times reports, "The head of the Federal Communications Commission is struggling to find enough support from a majority of the agency's commissioners to regulate cable television companies more tightly." Looking into Fred Thompson's claim against Fox News, The Huffington Post reports, "Evidence actually suggests a strong relationship between the Tennessean and the network that reports so that you can decide." The Street reports, "For investors, new media ownership rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission are a sign that TV companies have little prayer of getting bigger anytime soon." FOX News Channel will carry a live feed of the Des Moines, Iowa Democrat and Republican debates hosted by Iowa Public Television and the Des Moines Register. Both debates will air on FNC at 2:00 p.m. EST with the Republican debate on Wednesday, Dec. 12th and the Democratic debate on Thursday, December 13th. TVNewser reported last week, "MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, a Dancing with the Stars contestant last year, made a return appearance on tonight's show. In a spoof skit, Carlson -- along with fellow ex-contestants Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, and Laila Ali -- check into 'dance rehab' (who knew?) in Malibu because they 'haven't been able to let go of being on Dancing With the Stars.'" This Wednesday, the Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington will present Michael Jack, President and General Manager of WRC-TV the Silver Medal Award at a luncheon event at the Willard Hotel. "Not only was Keith Olbermann doing his normal Sunday night gig on NBC's Football Night in America, he also lent his voice to two popular Fox sitcoms," TVNewser reports. The Business and Media Institute reports, "When Tom Brokaw, an old-time mainstream media figure in his own right, says he thinks print newspapers won't be around in 10 years, that's probably not a good sign for the industry." CNN's Christiane Amanpour explains the safari-jacket look that has become her signature style. Washington Post reports, "George W. Hughes, 67, a retired broadcast engineer with ABC News and a dedicated model-train enthusiast, died Nov. 16 of respiratory failure at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He was a resident of South Riding." TVNewser reports, "CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and her team won the Association of International Broadcasters' award for 'Clearest Coverage of a Single News Event.'" "mediabistro.com's series So What Do You Do? features NBC News' Middle East correspondent Richard Engel." "Thompson Slams Fox News While On Fox News" Radio Washington City Paper's Dave McKenna explores, "The decline of Sam Huff and Redskins radio" Online Media An ABC release announced, "ABC News and Facebook have launched a partnership focused on the 2008 presidential election. In this first of its kind collaboration, Facebook will feature an application that will provide its 56 million active users with tools for supporting candidates and discussing the campaign on Facebook combined with ABC News political content and information, including the latest news from the campaign trail." Slate reports, "You know itâ€™s 2007 when a candidate, in this case Mike Huckabee, holds a bifurcated conference call, first with reporters, then with bloggers. I listened in on both calls to see what the differences were. The reporters' questions were much more concise and polished. But the bloggers' questions were more substantive by a long shot." Sky News reports, "The man behind one of the world's most influential news websites says there's everything to play for in the battle to win the trust of TV viewers, newspaper readers and web users -- and, he says, it won't all go the way of the big corporations. Matt Drudge of www.drudgereport.com was speaking to Sky News in his first interview for four years." Newspapers New York Times' Clark Hoyt writes, "Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, posted a column Monday asking me to get involved in the recent 'brawl' on the op-ed page of The Times over the meaning of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign visit to Philadelphia, Miss., where he told a mostly-white crowd, 'I believe in statesâ€™ rights.' Was it a coded appeal to Southern whites to vote Republican because Reagan and his party would side with them against efforts by blacks to achieve equal rights, as liberal columnists Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert contended?" Slate's Jack Shafer writes, "The Washington Post stands accused this week of jumping the gun for published information embargoed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. The Post story, by Johannesburg correspondent Craig Timberg, scooped the competition by reporting the United Nations' plans this week to announce that it was drastically cutting its estimate of the size of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic from about 40 million to about 33 million. The Post published the story to the Web on Nov. 19, and led with the story in its Nov. 20 print edition." "While the national news media focused heavily on the 2008 presidential campaign last week, the public divided its interest between the campaign and the Iraq war. More than one-fifth of the national newshole (21%) was devoted to the presidential campaign, while news about the war -- including the situation in Iraq, returning U.S. troops and the Iraq policy debate -- drew only about half as much coverage," according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The Independent reports, "Rupert Murdoch has admitted to a parliamentary inquiry that he has 'editorial control' over which party The Sun and News of the World back in a general election and what line the papers take on Europe." Reuters reports, "The U.S. media industry is on the brink of a second downturn in a decade, one that could accelerate the divisions between fast-growing targeted advertising and traditional formats aimed at mass audiences." The Telegraph reports, "Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is rumoured to be in takeover talks with LinkedIn, the professional networking site founded by Reid Hoffman." New York Times reports, "The curious relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton, presidential candidate, and Rupert Murdoch, media baron, flashed briefly before the eyes of Iowans on Saturday night during a Clinton campaign event." Washington Post reports, "Juanita Daigle of Baton Rouge is listed as one of the thousands of people who sent e-mails to the Federal Communications Commission opposing the proposed merger between the satellite radio networks XM and Sirius. But Daigle said she never sent an e-mail and is distressed that anyone would think she did. 'How did they get my name?' she asked. 'I don't want someone using my name for something I don't even know about.' A check by The Washington Post of 60 people whose names were attached to identical, anti-merger e-mails instigated by the National Association of Broadcasters, a major opponent of the merger, produced mostly unanswered phone calls and recordings saying the phones were disconnected. Of the 10 people reached, nine said they never sent anything to the FCC, and only one said she remembered filling out something about Sirius but did not recall taking a position on a merger." "Fifty three percent of 300 media, advertising and entertainment executives believe writers should continue to 'hold out for everything they want,' with 47 percent voting for them to 'pick up their pencils and get back to work.' According to the poll conducted at www.jackmyers.com, a slight majority of a group that should be expected to be more sympathetic to the networks and studios express support for the Writers Guild of America." Vote now for the I Want Media 2007 Media Person of the Year. Everything you have always wanted to know about AndrÃ© Wells' style is right here. The Press Gazette reports, "New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman has told a House of Lords committee that new online business models for newspapers are just substituing 'pennies for dollars'." DMNews reports, "The Wall Street Journal Europe has signed an agreement with The Jerusalem Post, putting the Post in charge of all distribution, printing, sales and marketing for WSJE in Israel." PRWeek reports, "The Economist has kicked off an online debate series to extend its brand to the social-media sphere. The first debate series, tackling education, launched last month. The second series is set for December." 23/6 reports, "With George W. Bush's hapless former press secretary Scott McClellan issuing bleats of blame about having been tricked into lying to the press about the Plame affair, Paul Slansky looks back at some other White House mouthpieces." Washington Post's Ruth Marcus writes, "In liberal Democratic circles, the debate over Social Security has taken a dangerous 'don't worry, be happy' turn. ... One prominent practitioner of this misguided approach is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman." The New York Observer reports, "Back in August, Dow Jones and News Corp announced the names of five elderly appointees to the board that will oversee the editorial independence of The Wall Street Journalâ€”a body established in response to Rupert Murdoch's takeover. A month later, one of those appointees, former Republican Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn, died. The group hadn't even met, and it was already down one." The City Paper has now launched a video component. A release announced, "The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to announce that it is now accepting entries for the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which honor excellence in professional journalism in 48 categories, covering print, radio, television, newsletters, photography, online and research." Wall Street Journal reports, "The proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. looked dead on arrival back in February, with federal regulators appearing unlikely to give their approval of the $5 billion merger. Nine months later, Wall Street is picking up a different signal: that the deal might somehow pass muster" "Jonathan Miller has reappeared on the Internet scene, this time as a member of the board of directors for online search ad management startup, Clickable. Miller's return comes after a rancorous departure from Time Warner, where he served as CEO of AOL. His landing pad, called Clickable, recently debuted their technology at the TechCrunch 40 conference in September." Politico reports, "On the evening of Nov. 13, the Wall Street Journal's Paul Steiger received the prestigious Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club, in Washington D.C., following a light-hearted roast from guests such as Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie." "Clinton Will Honor CBS Picket Line If Writers Strike" Wall Street Journal reports, "Janet Grimley had some hard-won investment wisdom to share with colleagues at a gathering earlier this fall of the American Association of Sunday and Feature editors in Savannah, Ga. 'Look at your comics pages like a stock portfolio,' advised Ms. Grimley, an assistant managing editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 'Diversify. You need to have some risky comics,' for instance the slightly subversive observational strip 'F Minus,' and 'some safe purchases like the old favorites.' Such 'safe purchases' would include blue chips like 'Blondie,' 'Beetle Bailey,' 'Dennis the Menace' and 'Hagar the Horrible.'" The Daily Princetonian reports, "In an age where print magazines are increasingly giving way to online journalism, The New Yorker is more important than ever, editor-in-chief David Remnick '81 told a packed audience of senior citizens, faculty members and students." Jobs FDAnews is looking for an Executive Editor. Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. is looking for an Editor and a Reporter. Transport Topics Publishing Group is looking for a staff Reporter. American University is looking for a Communications Career Advisor. Danville Register & Bee is seeking a sports reporter/page designer. Observatory Group, LLC is looking for a ECB Analyst. Hat Tips: DCRTV, TVNewser, IWantMedia, Romenesko, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, JournalismNext

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