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...journalists serve the community when they publicize breakthroughs happening at universities. Without such media coverage, it would be difficult to draw attention to new research developments, musical compositions, films, and philosophies that appear in abundance at higher education institutions. While colleges and universities can publicize their own findings, their press releases may suffer from bias. Newspapers provide a more objective viewpoint while also synthesizing and analyzing research to make it digestible for the average person...
...shortly after the failure of Washington Mutual Bank, Mark Krikorian found a press release issued months earlier by the bank that celebrated its inclusion on a list of “Business Diversity Elites” compiled by Hispanic Business magazine. On NRO, Krikorian posted the release with the sneering headline, “Cause and Effect?”, implying that the bank failed because of its minority employees...
Here are a few scenes from a revolution: In early February, Barack Obama ended a six-month press-conference drought by taking questions from YouTube. When a madman crashed his plane into a Texas office building a couple of weeks later, the White House responded on its blog. And during the bipartisan summit on health reform, press secretary Robert Gibbs used Twitter to keep score...
Just 30 years ago, White House press aides could work with only a handful of reporters and producers to get their story before 50 million network-news viewers every night and all over the papers the next morning. By contrast, Obama's most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets...
...created a robust debate about him, which has caused his approval to be at a low point at the moment." Raymond Louw, editor and publisher of the Southern Africa Report, a South Africa-based weekly, believes Zuma's recent behavior in some ways merits the crude treatment by the press. Last month, for instance, Zuma admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock, causing a national outcry. "The way they portrayed Zuma was rather extreme but I can understand why there would be a certain amount of criticism in view of his conduct over the past few months," he says...