mainstream media

Cross-posted from Bloviations

An interesting error appeared in today's print edition of the Jacksonville Daily News.

This letter appeared in the paper.

Hey folks.

The Jacksonville Daily News wants to know how you feel about withdrawing from Iraq.

Gen. David Petraeus is expected to recommend to Congress that current U.S. troop levels in Iraq be maintained until spring, as the surge has met with some success. Do you agree?

The survey is on their homepage...Please go vote!

The Washington Post today printed Novak's inaccurate account of earmark history, promoting our own hypocrite Pat McHenry as a martyred hero of the fight for transparency.

The formerly respected media outlet then posted an astonishingly vapid interview. Who's paying them to print such crap? Or is their reputation so shot, they don't need a high price to make up for the nonexistent loss of integrity?

Via Ode Magazine, I came across the 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project which, among other things, provided an extensive analysis of gender differences inside the mainstream media.

Percentage of news stories mentioning women

TV: 22%
Radio 17%
Newspapers 21%

What are the roles these women play?

Eyewitness: 30%
Subject: 23%
Expert: 17%
Spokespeople: 14%

Our news culture is so gender-biased that women don't even show up. And it's not just a problem "out there." BlueNC has only one female front-pager, the Southern Dem. We need help fixing that.