Your author usually gets the phone call after sunset. “The Washington Post is going to write an editorial against Issue X,” the politician whispers. “It’s going to be bad.” That’s…
Media
We acquired the following email from Maryland Democratic Party Political Director David Sloan describing the party’s media monitoring and outreach program this year. The program is modeled on Barack Obama’s…
MSM Falls Down on Costco Story
Here’s one more element of the Costco story for MPW readers to mull over: the issue has exposed the limitations of the local mainstream media (MSM) in reporting on the…
Red Maryland blogger Mark Newgent has called out the new political website Center Maryland for misrepresenting its purpose and mission. Let us shock the entire state’s blogosphere with this simple…
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a new study examining the relationship of new and old media in Baltimore. Their findings: new and old media…
List-mania is alive and well in Maryland and everywhere else, as everyone and their Aunt Ethel are issuing lists left and right. But no one else is offering a list…
Westin Buys the Washington Post – Again
After just eight days, the Washington Post sells nearly half its home page to Westin again. Who do their corporate bosses care about more – the readers or the advertisers?
Westin Buys the Washington Post
Once again, the Post sells almost half its home page to one of its sponsors. Maybe MPW should team up with a couple other blogs to pool our money and…
More on the History of the Gazette
This is just great stuff by Sebastian Montes.
Washington Times at Death’s Door
Howard Kurtz reports that the Washington Times is laying off at least 40% of its staff and is shifting to free distribution resembling the model of the Examiner. Part of…