The networks are feeling pressured by the White House to televise presidential press conferences live, reports media writer Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Maybe that’s because they are being pressured, Kurtz suggests in a column titled “The Prez, The Press, The…
Jon Stewart
A Time Magazine online poll finds that Jon Stewart is now the nation’s most-trusted newscaster, topping Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric.
Time asked: Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?
The results:
“Signs saying “No Cheering in the Press Box!” are posted in some football stadiums and basketball arenas. But even in venues where no such notice hangs, reporters know the rule. It’s as old as sports writing itself.”
Sportswriter Dave McKenna wrote…
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is one of just two among the top 25 Sunday papers to report a circulation increase in the latest period measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Arizona Republic is the other.
Overall, the nation’s newspapers…
