Bob CollinsWe seeing the beginning of the exit of some familiar voices from NPR as the public radio organization cuts 10 percent of its staff because of financial tough times. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
The new voice of NPR is Sabrina Farhi. Read more →
The latest school shooting barely makes the news. Read more →
When the media identifies you wrongly as a mass murder, you might think you were better off dead. Read more →
What’s in a name? Everything when it comes to polling about the health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
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Some NPR listeners are challenging the “patriotism” of NPR because it’s allowing the new Al Jazeera America Read more →
CBS’ John Miller was one of two reporters today who botched the identity of the person apparently responsible for killing at least a dozen people at the Navy Yard in Washington today. The gunman carried the ID of another man and Miller, along with an NBC news reporter, didn’t wait for authorities to identify the Read more →
The revenue woes that have decimated commercial media visited NPR today when the public radio network announced its cutting its staff by 10 percent. Read more →
In January, Boston media critic Alan Siegel took down sports journalists in the city in an article (The Fellowship of the Miserable) that reverberated through the sports departments of local media organizations nationwide. Siegel charged that the local scribes were going soft on the teams, coaches, players, and managers they were assigned to cover. He Read more →
Far too often, journalists act as stenographers, dutifully reporting bilge that professional spokespersons distribute that everyone knows to be nonsense. Read more →
Nate Minor
Corruption and Nigeria have a long history together. Examples run the gamut from small-time shakedowns to billions of dollars of oil disappearing. Read more →
On Sunday (12-1 p.m.), I’ll be hosting a Q&A at the MPR booth at the State Fair with Chris Worthington, the managing director of regional news at Minnesota Public Radio. To my knowledge, the event is not being broadcast, you can’t call in with a question. If you’re not going to the Fair on Sunday, Read more →
CNN’s managing editor get slammed for trite coverage but she doesn’t mind Read more →
Interviewer Dick Gordon is calling it quits as host of American Public Media’s The Story. Read more →
The plug was pulled on Al Gore’s Current TV this afternoon and the Al Jazeera America era is underway. Qatar-based Al Jazeera paid $500 million to buy Current TV. “Some people ask, ‘Is it jihad journalism?’ It’s hard to have a dignified conversation about that,” Paul Beban, the Denver correspondent, tells the Denver Post. Read more →