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Romney’s Ad ‘Deceitful & Dishonest’?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Nov. 23 (Fact Check) - The Obama campaign is in a lather over Mitt Romney’s first TV spot, calling it “a deceitful and dishonest attack” because of an edited quote from 2008. That’s a matter of opinion. We find a far more consequential issue is the ad’s exaggerated claim that the new health care law … More >>

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Advertising Climate Change:A Study of Green Ads, 2005 - 2010

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Yale Environment 360 - By Michael Svoboda - Jul. 05 (Research) - Yale Forum analysis of print ads from 2005 to 2010 suggests major advertisers closely tracked news coverage and public opinion on climate change, with ‘green’ ads peaking in 2008-09 and returning to ‘background’ levels in 2010. But most companies were reluctant to address the issue directly, preferring instead to tout reduced “emissions” and a ‘cleaner’ environment. With one notable exception.

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The story so far: what we know about the business of digital journalism

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, Lucas Graves - May. 10 (Special Report) - The difficult financial state of the U.S. news industry is no longer new. Most big newsrooms have faced severe cutbacks, and even though online-only outlets have sprung up in communities throughout the country, they haven’t fully taken the place of what has been lost. These issues were explored in a precursor report to this one, sponsored by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and written by Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, a professor at Columbia. At the end of that report, which was published in late 2009, the authors provided a number of recommendations to stanch the losses in independent reporting. Most of the recommendations were based in policy, including changes in the tax code to provide news organizations easier access to nonprofit status and encouraging philanthropists to support news gathering. Most controversially, Downie and Schudson recommended the creation of a national “Fund for Local News” supported with fees the Federal Communications Commission would collect from telecom users, broadcast licensees, or Internet service providers.

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Google developing Groupon competitor called Offers

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PhysOrg.com - By Dana Wollman - Jan. 21 (News) - Like Groupon Inc., the service, Google Offers, will offer time-limited deals from local vendors, such as restaurants. Ten dollars, for example, might buy $20 worth of food at a local cafe.

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This Really Is the Worst Election Ever

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Nov. 03 (Special Report) - The Wesleyan Media Project has studied the glut of U.S. midterm congressional TV ads and determined we've set a new low in negativity — and perhaps a new high in information.

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Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GMAC Among 8 Major Companies To Pull Ads From Glenn Beck Show

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Aug. 17 (News) - Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, and GMAC are among eight major advertisers that have confirmed pulling their advertising from Fox News' "Glenn Beck" program in light of his comments that President Obama is a racist. The advertisers did not pull their spots from Fox News, but rather requested that their ads do not air during Beck's 5PM program.

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Spare change for news

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Katharine Mieszkowski - Apr. 14 (Special Report) - As newspaper newsrooms around the nation cut back or shutter, an urgent conversation is taking place about where the reporting that exposes corruption and holds public officials accountable will come from. What new models for financing professional journalism will spring up?

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Publishers seek ad block on copyright abusers

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reflections of a Newsosaur - By Alan Mutter - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Alarmed by what they believe to be widespread piracy of their copyrighted material on the web, some publishers want to force companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to stop serving ads at sites carrying unauthorized newspaper content.

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‘We Couldn’t Say It in Print If It Wasn’t True’

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

csicop.org - By Harriet Hall - Feb. 20 (Investigative Report) - I like to read advertisements for quack remedies. I’ve come to suspect that “clinically proven” means “we gave it to three of our friends and got them to say it worked.” When the ads cite published medical studies, I like to track down and read those studies. I usually find that they have nothing whatsoever to do with the product in question and I get a lot of amusement from the pseudoscience and the testimonials. I really hit the jackpot when I noticed an ad for a weight-loss product called Akavar 20/50. It made the usual claims: eat all you want and still lose weight. But it had the best advertising slogan ever: “We couldn’t say it in print if it wasn’t true!” I laughed out loud. Anyone can say anything in print until they get caught. These diet ads all say things that aren’t true, and the Federal Trade Commission can’t begin to catch them all. The ad describes research results on Akavar as “staggering.” It claims to have published scientific research showing that twenty-three out of twenty-four patients using Akavar’s active ingredient lost weight and describes a controlled, randomized clinical trial of the actual product in which twenty-three out of twenty-four patients lost “a substantial amount of weight.” Two questions immediately came to mind: why were the numbers the same in both studies, and if a single active ingredient worked just as well, why was there any need to develop the Akavar formulation?

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Maverick Misleads

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - McCain's campaign launched a TV ad touting his running mate, Palin, and offering a comparison to Obama. Some of its claims are off the mark

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Who's winning the message war, Obama or McCain?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Alex Koppelman - Aug. 12 (News Analysis) - Given the size of this year's political war chest, and the determination of the Obama campaign to carry the fight far beyond the old familiar swing states, this summer and fall many more Americans can expect to see political ads, with their competing narratives about the candidates, than saw ads in the elections of 2000 and 2004. For a take on who is winning the message war, Salon asked Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, to watch and grade three ads from the Obama campaign and three ads from the McCain campaign. Jamieson is the author or coauthor of 16 books on political media and advertising; her most recent is "Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment." Salon spoke to her by phone.

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Moderate Republicans Express Concern Over Push for Conservative Agenda

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Alan K. Ota - Jun. 17 (News Report) - moderates want Boehner and the party to focus on gasoline price increases rather than on earmarks, a proposal for a two-tier flat tax or a proposed constitutional amendment to curb the growth of federal spending -- all of which are being pushed by the RSC and are embraced by Boehner's leadership team. "Conservatives want to build a stronger brand for the party. But some moderates feel they each already have their own brand," said one senior GOP aide.

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Think You Know Your Web Traffic?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By David Cohn - Apr. 03 (Special Report) - "This may be the most measurable medium in history, but the measurements all suck," says Steve Yelvington, an Internet strategist for Morris DigitalWorks, which manages the Web sites for more than sixty newspapers and thirty radio stations.

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