“The first double-digit circulation decline in history means only 12.9% of the U.S. population buys a daily newspaper.”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Norm Spector, expertus emeritus – “Where’s Mr. Brown these days, you ask? Well, he isn’t anchoring the CBS Evening News, a job that is now held by Katie Couric. True, she got off to a rocky start, but she’s found her feet and is now thriving”.
Associated Press – Once again, Katie Couric’s evening newscast was watched by fewer people than any network newscast.

“Only a simpleton would believe what they say.”

October 12th: White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News
October 13th: Fox News’ White House correspondent Major Garrett intercepted carrying H1N1 virus
Developing….

“I reviewed your image this am and I noticed your thick lips. Please tell me you’re not BLACK. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.”

Speaking truthiness on behalf of Power: CNN ‘Fact Checks’ SNL Obama Skit

Columbia Journalism Review – Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism

Which means they have more viewers than the CBC does during any time slot.

…Double-crossing clarification.

The British – doing the job the American media won’t do

Lorne Gunter – doing the job American Obama media won’t do.

The Gibson Doctrine “HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning”.

“You see the dynamic all the time”….

One newspaper (or broadcaster) runs a story and, within hours, the rest of the media pick it up and repeat it, sometimes with their own spin, but with the basic facts unchecked. Thus, a core error gets repeated and repeated until it becomes part of the narrative, pulled out for ever more whenever the issue is raised, becoming part of the received wisdom, simply by dint of constant repetition.
Discussing with one senior official a particularly egregious example of an error-ridden story which had spread through the system, in frustration he described the process as akin to journalists eating each others’ turds.

h/t Mystery Meat

It’s not an extinction. It’s suicide.

“Daddy, when dinosaurs die, do they go to hell? “

Heh.
CABLE NEWS RACE
THURSDAY NITE, SEPT 10
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,609,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,340,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,986,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,522,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,362,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,040,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,573,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,164,000
CNN KING 965,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 882,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 734,000
CNN COOPER 691,000
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