This weekend it was pamper one’s self: Friday a couple of friends came by. We ordered Viet food —my first try and delicious http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g34515-c41-Orlando_Florida.html and watched some Outlander episodes https://www.starz.com/OnDemand as one of my friends doesn’t have Starz. Then Sat: First Hand and Stone for massage http://handandstone116.reachlocal.net/fl/orlando/ then nails and pedi….then shopping (30% off certificate, tax free weekend and a big sale) http://www.kohls.com/ and finally Mexican http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g34515-c29-Orlando_Florida.html for dinner and then home to veg. Sunday another day with friends–Welcome HOME Misty—BBQ, and good Friends—Safe Trip Home Mom and junior Diva “J”
― Mark Twain
― Napoléon Bonaparte
A new study on media consumption in the Midwest illustrates how this works in individual media markets like Milwaukee.
Heavy radio and Internet users here tend to skew Republican, while big television and newspaper users skew Democratic.
Viewers of Fox News, the Golf Channel, the History Channel, the Speed Channel, ESPN and Country Music Television lean Republican.
Viewers of MSNBC, CNN, Comedy Central, Lifetime and Bravo lean Democratic.
“I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.”
― Mark Twain
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My favorite news take is Fox News recent involvement in the Debate. Megyn Kelly irritated Trump and he over-reacted as to be expected. It has occurred to me that this might well have been done on purpose with the accused Republican backing network using the technique to try to displace Trump from the top spot allowing someone that can sway the middle and non-party voters to their cause—something Trump isn’t likely to do.
“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph
But Our Media covers more than politics:
HEALTH
A 2002 Gallup poll showed that many Americans consider television their most important source of news and information on health. It also showed that television is one of the least trusted sources of such news and information. I studied each of the 840 health news stories that appeared between February and May 2003 on four television stations (KARE, KSTP, KMSP, WCCO) in Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534863/
His findings:
Too brief to matter—Brevity robs viewers of the chance to grasp the significance of health stories.
No full time health journalists
No data to back up sensational claims—Journalists not trained in the nuances of covering health and medical news may be more likely to report stories that make unproved claims of research pro
Hyperbole Science doesn’t work that way; it demands independent confirmation. So should journalists.
Commercialism— statements from private companies with no balancing statements from competing companies or other sources
Single source stories
RACIAL CONCEPTS
A content analysis of a random sample of Los Angeles television news programs was used to assess racial representations of perpetrators, victims, and officers. A series of comparisons were used to assess whether local news depictions differed from outside indicators of social reality. In a significant departure from prior research, they revealed that perpetration was accurately depicted on local TV news. Blacks, in particular, were accurately depicted as perpetrators, victims, and officers. However, although Latinos were accurately depicted as perpetrators, they continued to be underrepresented as victims and officers. Conversely, Whites remained significantly overrepresented as victims and officers. The implications of these findings are discussed in light of incognizant racism, ethnic blame discourse, structural limitations, and the guard dog perspective of news media. http://crx.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/01/0093650215579223.abstract
Travis L. Dixon, Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 3001 Lincoln Hall,702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man
― Stephen King, Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
- His nightly sign-off line on CBS News (1962 – 1981)
“I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.”
― Mark Twain