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Today’s very good sentence on McCain/Obama coverage

With a blog-post title in the best Tyler Cowen style, a sentence from this article on McCain’s media bias claim:
Much of the coverage has a simple explanation: the press is biased — towards the most commercial narrative

Posted 08 September 2008 † Chris § mccain § obama § bias ‡ Comments (0)

NYT asks, is PBS still necessary?

Forty years ago it really was different. There were only three networks, and none of them were known for challenging or high-minded programming. Indeed, public broadcasting came into being out of collective despair over what had become of the airwaves. Cable has changed all that. There are not only countless more channels to chose from […]

Posted 17 February 2008 † Chris § cpb § npr § pbs § public broadcasting ‡ Comments (0)

Did they pull Reagan movies too?

Washington Post has an article on Fred Thompson’s candidacy for the Republica nomination. Apparently, if Thompson enters the race officially, summer viewers don’t get their repeats of Law & Order (Thompson plays a District Attorney), due to equal time regulations on free television time to candidates.

Posted 15 July 2007 † Chris § thompson § bias § monitoring ‡ Comments (0)