The New York Times reports today on a new study from the University of Chicago on the political bias of newspapers. The study found that newspapers are indeed politically biased, but that the slant reflects the feelings of the paper’s subscriber base. Here’s the key quote from the Times’ piece:
The authors calculated the ideal partisan slant for each paper,...
Continue ReadingBack in August, the Washington Post announced a Blogroll Program. Basically, the Post is encouraging bloggers to submit their sites to the new Blogroll Program. The Post will weed through all the submitted blogs and choose the best of the best.
The blogs that are chosen will then be included on a rotating basis on the Post homepage and in their blog directory....
Continue ReadingToday Steve Rubel unveils Edelman’s take on the social news release, Storycrafter (note lots and lots of others are doing similar work). I like it. I’d rather get something like this than an old fashioned press release. But two quick thoughts:
(1) Regardless of the format, the key with press releases IMO is to produce very few of them....
Continue ReadingThere is a new site called Fake Your Space that allows users to pay 99 cents to have “hot” men and women post comments to their profiles on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook (see “Sly” to the right). You can even tell them what to write!
I guess the idea is that if you have fake hot friends,...
Continue ReadingCNBC relaunched its website a few days ago after being offline for six months due the expiration of its deal with Microsoft. Here is a quick look at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly on the redesigned site.
The Good
(1) According to Techcrunch, the site will have between three and eight hours of fresh video content available each day....
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