Bob CollinsIt’s only a matter of time before some enterprising public radio station gives away ‘I Am Lakshmi Singh’ hats during a pledge drive.
Tote bags? So very yesterday. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
Carr, a native of Hopkins, was 58. Ironically, his death made the front page of today’s New York Times, but not most Minnesota editions. Read more →
Edward Schumacher Matos’ last day as the listeners’ representative at NPR gave him one last opportunity to poke his bosses in the eyes.
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It’s fashionable to dismiss the impact of a newspaper these days, but let me let you in on a dirty little secret that newspaper competitors don’t want you to know: Nobody can touch the impact of a newspaper. Nobody.
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Bob Simon, the giant of a reporter at CBS News, survived war coverage since Vietnam. But it was a town car in Manhattan that killed him last night,you’ve probably heard.
A lot of people in the business have their favorite stories that he covered.
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Before he leaves “The Daily Show” for good, Jon Stewart could have a field day with the bead-clutching that’s taking place in the hours since he announced he’s leaving the program. Read more →
A lot of TV reporters went to Iraq to report on the war. Even those who did so accurately missed the big story.
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NPR listeners could’ve benefitted from a little more aviation expertise and a tad less hyperbole in its story on All Things Considered on Thursday evening, stemming from yesterday’s story about a plane crash in Colorado in which the National Transportation Safety Board suggested the pilot was taking selfies when he lost control of his airplane in miserable weather conditions. Read more →
Twitter knows nonsense. Read more →
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is in damage control mode after he was outed for falsely claiming to have been in a helicopter that was shot down in the first Gulf War. Read more →
Curiously, the Star Tribune’s use of the word ‘blasphemy’ has sparked its own debate on whether it is. Read more →
It’s not much of a secret that public radio is white — really white. The lack of diversity has hardly gone unnoticed locally or nationally. The origins go far deeper than race. Back when I was a young college student, my Boston accent was (mostly) beaten out of me in a voice and articulation class. Read more →
If there’s one thing people don’t much care for, it’s the media getting a little too full of themselves.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press writer Brian Murphy might have found that out when he weighed in Marshawn Lynch’s one-answer-for-every-question performance at Super Bowl media day. Read more →
Back in the infancy of the Internet, the experts told us it would give the voiceless a voice, empowering people in a way we can’t imagine.
We blew the chance. Read more →
Might the controversy over the missing two pounds-per-square inch of air from a football be blown (no pun intended) a bit out of proportion?
Let’s consider these two images of news conferences in the Boston area this week.
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