Chris Hanretty

'usa' Category

• Mar

  30

  2009

  US external broadcasting service crap

  It’s not just me who says it, it’s the Office of Personnel Management — and Lee Sigelman at Monkey Cage. (These are not the people who run the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but rather services like Voice of America, but as Sigelman notes, Ken Tomlinson moved from the CPB to these guys).

  posted in usa, voa by Chris

• Sep

  08

  2008

  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 in bias, mccain, obama, usa by Chris

• Feb

  17

  2008

  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 in cpb, npr, pbs, public broadcasting, usa by Chris

• Jul

  15

  2007

  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 in bias, monitoring, thompson, usa by Chris