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Johnny Damon Is Now Fox & Friends’ Idiot
In today’s Morning Mediawire, Poynter Institute hall monitor James Warren examines ESPN’s failure to cover itself with, well, coverage. The Undefeated is a terrific ESPN-created site on sports, race, culture and politics. If you’ve missed it, start checking it out. … Continue reading
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Tagged ESPN, Fox & Friends, idiots, James Warren, Jemele Hill, Johnny Damon, Morning Mediawire, MTV, Poynter Institute, Red Sox, The Undefeated
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Globe Herald Hostage (Lowball Edition)
Once again the Boston Herald is a day late, but it’s the dollar short that’s interesting. Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured this update on the sale of the paper: Field of bidders for Globe reportedly narrows Groups with local ties – Taylor family … Continue reading
Journalists’ Dilemma Makes Good TV
Haiti has been a petri dish of journalistic quandaries in the to-be-or-not-to-be-involved category. Especially for the TV doctors (via TVNewser): Bob Steele, a journalism values scholar at the Poynter Institute, tells the LA Times’ Matea Gold, “I think it’s very hard for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Steele, Poynter Institute, Richard Besser, TVNewser
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