Blunders are generally funny – but newsroom ’stratergy’ is the only explination for these ridiculous media missteps that made Politico.com’s list of ‘Top media blunders of 2008.’
For my money, the NY Time’s McCain-Iseman story is the winner of the year. It was weighed down by more innuendo than buoyed by fact, the article was an ill-advised and unsubstantiated [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 31, 2008
Top 10 media blunders of 2008
December 31, 2008
The 10 most overlooked stories of 2008
Newsweek takes its annual look at the stories that were glossed over or ignored completely in favor of a pregnant man and Casey Anthony.
The Iraq War, horrific violence in the Congo and President Bush’s expansion in AIDS Relief funding unfortunately made the magazine’s “10 Most Overlooked Stories of 2008.”
Sad sidenote: The ‘most viewed’ Newsweek stories (at the time of [...]
December 31, 2008
2009
The economic meltdown. The Obama-McCain campaigns. Financial bailouts. Plummeting consumer confidence.
This blog missed all of those stories – but with 2009 just hours away also comes a promise to follow the news, scrutinize the news and demand the news inform rather than entertain base impulses.
