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WMC Daily News Brief – Palin’s Interview, Bailout, England

September 26, 2008 – 11:19 am

ShareA Question Reprised, but the Words Come None Too Easily for Palin 9/25/08 NY Times: Her first interview, with the ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, was too hard. The second, with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, was too soft. The third, however, did not turn out to be just right for Gov. Sarah [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Palin & Sexism, Poverty, India

September 25, 2008 – 11:11 am

ShareCommentary: Sexist Treatment of Palin Must End 9/24/08 CNN: I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin. It has to end. She was in New York on Tuesday meeting with world leaders at the U.N. And what did the McCain campaign do? They tried to ban reporters from covering those meetings. And [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Networks, Wall Street, China

September 24, 2008 – 11:15 am

ShareNetworks Revolt Against Reporter-Blocking Palin UN Meeting 9/23/08 Huffington Post: The McCain campaign gave in and agreed to let a CNN producer into the UN meetings.The New York Times adds that reporters were let in for the preliminary part of Palin’s meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Wall Street Takes Welfare It Begrudges to Women [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – The View, Abortion, France

September 23, 2008 – 10:59 am

Share‘The View’ Has Its Eye on Politics This Year 9/22/08 NY Times: Barbara Walters said she left the set of “The View” on Sept. 12 believing that she and her fellow panelists had conducted a fair on-the-couch interview with Senator John McCain. As it turns out, the McCain interview was part of a conscious effort [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Bartiromo & Glick, Wage Disparities, Livni

September 22, 2008 – 11:04 am

ShareBartiromo, Glick on Covering the Crisis 9/20/08 Broadcasting & Cable: What can be broken down immediately is how the chaos was covered at business networks like CNBC and Fox Business Network. And on the front lines were CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo and FBN’s Alexis Glick. In two separate interviews, B&C business editor Robert Marich spoke with [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Biden, Female Voters, UN Study

September 19, 2008 – 11:00 am

Share Joe Biden Takes Note of Sarah Palin’s Sheltering from the Media 9/18/08 LA Times: Joe Biden made news earlier today — likely in a way that caused Democratic strategists to cringe — when he said that the wealthier Americans who would pay more under Barack Obama’s tax plan should feel “patriotic” about doing so. [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – TV & Cable, Palin, Livni

September 18, 2008 – 10:57 am

ShareTV, Cable Stocks Mostly Match Wall Street’s Big Drop 9/17/08 Broadcasting & Cable: Wall Street endured another panic attack Wednesday as broad stock-market indices were down 4%-5% and TV and cable stocks fell in proportional lockstep. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4.1%, or 449.36 points, to close at 10,609.66. That erased Tuesday’s 141.51 point [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Obama, Abortion, Israel

September 17, 2008 – 10:50 am

ShareObama Mobilizes Rapid Response on Web: Campaign Targets Media When Attacks Aired 9/17/08 Chicago Tribune: Much of Barack Obama’s political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people. Now Obama’s presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Presidential Candidates, Wall Street, Iraq

September 16, 2008 – 10:57 am

ShareCandidates Strive to Break Through Media Fog 9/15/08 NY Times: One of the most frustrating challenges that Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama are facing going into the final weeks of this campaign –the ways in which the proliferation of communications channels, the fracturing of mass media and the relentless political competition to own each news [...]

WMC Daily News Brief – Palin, Income Gap, Israel

September 15, 2008 – 11:00 am

ShareWhat Next for Palin? 9/15/08 USA Today: So now that Sarah Palin has done her first extensive national TV interview, how much more do we know about her? Not all that much. Watching the Republican vice presidential nominee’s performance was a bit like watching a gymnast navigate the balance beam. Under persistent questioning by ABC’s [...]