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Tag Archives: PBS NewsHour
NYT Still Can’t Find 50 People for Its $135K Worldwind Tour
As the hardworking staff noted several months ago, the New York Times Journeys travel agency has faced an uphill battle selling out its Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation. Full-page from yesterday’s Times. The 26-day, $135,000 … Continue reading
Seats Still Available for NYT’s Worldwind Global Journey!
In journalism nowadays, there’s sell out, and then there’s sold out. The New York Times’s Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation might be the former, but it’s apparently not the latter. Here’s how the Times Journeys site describes … Continue reading
PBS NewsHour Needs A Subscription To The New Republic
Last night’s PBS NewsHour featured an interview with former Pres. Bill Clinton about, among other things (like the Missus running for president), the Clinton Global Initiative. From the newscast’s transcript: JUDY WOODRUFF: So the Clinton Global Initiative, this is your ninth … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Different Strokes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight finds our local hall monitors addressing very different topics. Boston Herald Press Party rundown. WGBH’s Beat the Press had a different agenda: the Whitey Bulger trial coverage, a WCVB/Nstar partnership, modernizing PBS’s NewsHour, and … Continue reading
Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile
That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, FTC, Google, lobby, mobile apps, PBS NewsHour, Sneak ADtack, tracking, Waldorf-Astoria, Wall Street Journal
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When A Nation Forgets Its Own Idioms . . .
. . . it looks sort of idiotic. The hardworking staff can’t help but notice that what once were familiar American phrases have become, well, unfamiliar. Some recent examples: • Democratic strategist on CNN describing Mitt Romney’s Latino problem thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Ed Shultz, Elgin Marbles, forget our idioms, French Open, mangled phrases, MBTA, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Nicolas Sarkozy, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Rick Perry, The Ride
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Occupy Wall Streetniks Settle In
Leading indicators that the Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t going away anytime soon. • This PBS Newshour’s piece on Thursday night: • This piece from The Art Newspaper: Occupy Wall Street group looks to open arts space NEW YORK. A … Continue reading
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Tagged arts space, Occupy Wall Street, PBS NewsHour, The Art Newspaper
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The GOP’s “Non-Negotiable Terrorist Demand”
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal chinstroker Mark Shields accused Congressional Republicans of issuing a “non-negotiable terrorist demand” in the debt-ceiling rumpus on Capitol Hill – namely, the requirement for passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the … Continue reading
Public/Private Sector Compensation Bakeoff (PBS NewsHour Edition)
More grist for the salary mill, via Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour (video embedded): Protests in Wisconsin, Elsewhere Stir Debate on Public vs. Private Pay, Benefits And we take up the contentious question of public- versus private-sector pay with Harley Shaiken of … Continue reading
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