Sunday, February 19, 2006
Media Priorities? An Example.
Today, this is the center BIG Headline item in the DRUDGE REPORT : "This just in! Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning covers of Cheney for high impact on newsstands Monday, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident" ....
"magazine's editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."
Or as Drudge puts it more aptly: "what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the slick-click age of information and news cycles."
The same Drudge Report also cites ,in smaller headlining, 12 deaths in Nigeria due to 'cartoon' riots; continued protests in Pakistan; and Muslims assaulting the US Embassy in Indonesia. But no indication that TIME or NEWSWEEK found a second lethal week of Islamist orchestrated global violence noteworthy.
Just another example of Old Media priorities: hope for a "Hit"against the US Administration; give a pass to our real global opponents. Perhaps these media moguls view this as just pushing their political views; but these misplaced priorities foster the very image of American discontent and weakness that our GWOT enemies are seeking to create and leverage.
"magazine's editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."
Or as Drudge puts it more aptly: "what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the slick-click age of information and news cycles."
The same Drudge Report also cites ,in smaller headlining, 12 deaths in Nigeria due to 'cartoon' riots; continued protests in Pakistan; and Muslims assaulting the US Embassy in Indonesia. But no indication that TIME or NEWSWEEK found a second lethal week of Islamist orchestrated global violence noteworthy.
Just another example of Old Media priorities: hope for a "Hit"against the US Administration; give a pass to our real global opponents. Perhaps these media moguls view this as just pushing their political views; but these misplaced priorities foster the very image of American discontent and weakness that our GWOT enemies are seeking to create and leverage.
