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| Citizen Kane - How to Run a Newspaper |
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"You're right, I did lose a million dollars last
year. I expect to lose a million dollars this
year. I expect to lose a million dollars next
year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a
million dollars a year, I'll have to close this
place in... 60 years."
Tags : Citizen Kane |
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Affichage : 59143
Durée : 147 s |
| Listening Post - US newspaper industry - 19 Sep 08 - Part 2 |
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The Listening Post's Robin Armstrong reports on
the ailing US newspaper industry.
This is a chronic affliction - both advertising
revenue and readership are shrinking, and
newspapers across the country are performing
something of a disappearing act. Moreover, US
newspapers have seen their share value drop more
than any other sector in the media industry,
papers are haemorrhaging staff. They are faced
with a choice: either migrate to the internet, or
die.
The Listening Post goes to California, home of one
of America's oldest and best-known titles, the San
Francisco Chronicle, to see if the US newspaper
industry is about to publish its own obituary.
In Newsbytes, we look at a cartoon saga in South
Africa; an inflammatory DVD about Islamic
extremism; media coverage of the forthcoming
Belarusian parliamentary elections; a tightening
of the grip on the media in China and Russian PM,
Vladimir Putin, who is said to be fuming that an
exclusive interview with CNN was heavily edited.
Closing our show with this week's Video of the
Week is a quirky viral showing North Korea's Dear
Leader Kim Jong Il as an animated video game
character. Created by a German entertainment show,
the video puts Jong Il through a Super Mario-like
sequence, complete with hostile enemy countries
and nuclear bombs.
Watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdzzZCgFbU
Tags : Listening Post Richard Gizbert Robin Armstrong US newspapers San Francisco Chronicle North Korea Russia Vladimir Putin |
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Affichage : 4393
Durée : 573 s |
| Newspaper Disputes Sen. Coleman's Claims About Lawsuit |
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More at http://www.theuptake.org
An unmarked envelope arrives for two investigative
reporters at the local newspaper. Inside are
papers that will be filed in court next week
linking the state's Senior US Senator to a
complicated plan to funnel him money from a
wealthy businessman to his wife.
It sounds like a scene from "All The Presidents
Men". But unlike that movie which was based on
real life, this scene is based upon a fantasy in
Senator Norm Coleman's head if you believe the
Managing Editor at the Star Tribune.
Friday, Senator Coleman accused the Star Tribune
of having documents from the potentially
politically damaging lawsuit long before they were
actually filed in a Texas court.
Star Tribune Managing Editor Rene Sanchez says
that is simply not true. Sanchez old MinnPost that
"we did not get a copy of this lawsuit until it
was filed Monday."
It was questions from the Star Tribune's
investigative reporters earlier this week that
tipped other media off to the story. At a campaign
event in St. Cloud, Senator Coleman refused to
answer or even acknowledge the reporters who asked
him about the lawsuit and payments of $75,000 to
his wife from a Texas company controlled by a
wealthy Coleman supporter.
On Friday Coleman said the lawsuit, filed by
Republican Paul McKim, was politically motivated
and indicated it was the work of his opponent Al
Franken calling it "sleazy" and "11th hour".
Lawyers in Minnesota who examined the lawsuit
documents were reasonably sure politics was not
the primary motivation in the lawsuit. Talk show
host and lawyer Mark Heaney and election law
specialist Christian Sande examined the documents
on Heaney's show this week.
Heaney noted that the firm filing the lawsuit was
a reputable one, and would probably not risk that
reputation by being involved in a lawsuit that had
no basis.
Sande commented that this was really a lawsuit
about a fired CEO trying to obtain money from his
former employer. Sande suggested the Coleman
allegations were probably included ...
Tags : coleman kazeminy lawsuit minnesota mn nasser norm NextNewNetworks |
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Affichage : 2085
Durée : 562 s |
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