The State of the News Media 2008: Newspaper Content Analysis

In 2007, despite...a rush of resources away from print...newspapers stood out in 2007 for unique coverage. Their particular strength...may be less covering breaking news than tracking stories that percolated, ebbed and flowed over the course of the year. The nation's newspapers gave front-page coverage to issues and events often not found in other news genres. The state of the U.S. economy, the continuing debate over health care policies and foreign news ... Full Story »

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Hans Suter
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by Hans Suter - Oct. 1, 2008

A quantitative only approach to content examination is misleading. To understand why this isn't a good story go to http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/17/so_wrong_for_so_long_so_why_ch/#more .Here is an excerpt:Steve Vogel from the Washington Post was there, and he wrote a good piece for Saturday's paper. But the Post ran it on the front of its Metro section. The Metro section! There's not a single plausible reading of Winter Soldier as a local story. The Post did what any viewer of The Wire would recognize as the newspaper equivalent of putting McNulty on the Boat. It couldn't kill Vogel's story outright, so it slotted the piece where no one in power will ever read it. As Greg's book points out, that's exactly what the Post did to the skeptical pre-war reporting done by Walter Pincus.

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