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Gibson gets first Palin interview, but why?

Posted September 11, 2008

After two weeks of having Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket, Sen. John McCain’s campaign eventually had to develop a media relations strategy – other than hiding her, of course. For its part, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said Palin will do interviews on her own terms.

But why ABC News’ Charles Gibson for the first interview, especially considering the widely criticized Democratic debate he hosted in April? The Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar has seven reasons why Gibson gets the first interview, and not Katie Couric or Brian Williams.

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Filed under: 2008 Campaign, Media, Politics

Tags:Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Huffington Post, John McCain, Katie Couric, Rachel Sklar, Rick Davis, Sarah Palin

MSNBC’s left turn not obvious to everyone

Posted August 22, 2008

MSNBC’s , announced Tuesday, to remove legal analyst and former network GM Dan Abrams from its 9 pm time slot in favor of commentator Rachel Maddow, by The New York Times’ Brian Stelter as a move to the left in search of higher ratings. Stelter noted that ratings of Keith Olbermann’s Countdown have nearly doubled since he began delivering “special comment” on-air editorials, usually criticizing President Bush. Therefore, placing the generally liberal Maddow in a coveted spot where MSNBC could conceivably gain ground on ratings leader Fox News Channel, would seem to be a logical – some would say obvious – step.

The Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar, for the most part, concurs. However, the management of the Huffington Post, curiously, did not. Sklar’s column was published on a Poynter Institute forum by media blogger Jim Romanesko because the post was not “congruent with HuffPost’s editorial position against the media’s penchant for viewing everything through a left/right prism.”

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Filed under: 2008 Campaign, Blogs, Media, Politics, Web sites

Tags:Brian Stelter, Countdown, Dan Abrams, Fox News Channel, Huffington Post, Jim Romanesko, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, New York Times, President Bush, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Sklar

If satire isn’t your thing…The New Yorker isn’t for you

Posted July 15, 2008

If the goal of The New Yorker’s July 21 was to grab attention, it has succeeded – maybe beyond the wildest dreams of the magazine’s editors.

Here’s some reaction to the cover – which depicts, satirically, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife in garb associated with al Qaeda and a 1960s radical leftist group, respectively – from around the Web: Read more »

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Times’ Carr takes on Fox News PR

Posted July 7, 2008

Fox News’ PR operation took a beating in today’s New York Times by David Carr, who alleges that media relations at the network is “a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them.”

Carr reports that the strategy is born from CEO Roger Ailes’ days as a political adviser for presidents Nixon, Reagan, and George HW Bush. Says Carr: “Once the [PR] apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.” Read more »

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