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Posts tagged ‘corporate media’

I’ve recently been dealing more often with trade publications and have been interested to see how the editorial-business relationship differs from the traditional newspaper world I came out of.
There’s a lot more interaction between the advertising side and the editorial side. Stop the presses, I know — many Peepshow readers learned this years ago. But as NBC once said, touting reruns [...]

Red Meat

June 7th, 2008

This morning at the National Conference for Media Reform, the people got what they’d been waiting for. Longtime PBS journalist Bill Moyers gave a keynote on the state of American media, and he didn’t disappoint the 3,000 in attendance.
Moyers is an old-fashioned Texas populist, working the same territory as the late Molly Ivins. Although his approach [...]

What Gets Into People?

June 6th, 2008

In other words, why do ordinary citizens travel hundreds or thousands of miles at their own expense to wrestle with questions of media and society? I mean, I understand why they’d spend all that money and time on someting important like a baseball game, but this?
For Valerie Traina of Denver, it’s because of a passion for [...]

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