Word: mainstream
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...first six months. After Berlin, the publishers are planning to expand distribution to other German cities and European capitals. The daily paper will cost $2.70 (€1.80), but students will pay just $1.80 (€1.20), about the same price as one of Germany's mainstream newspapers, like Süddeutsche. The founders of Niiu say that readers will end up saving money in the long run because they won't have to buy different newspapers anymore. (Read "The State of the Media: Not Good...
Granted, it was impossible to know for sure that Falcon Heene was not inside the balloon. However, the mainstream media’s utter lack of skepticism is troubling and was far from prudent or excusable. The first phone call made by Falcon’s father to the local television affiliate was met by a stubborn, “I don’t believe you.” It was only after Heene put a police deputy on the line that the local station reluctantly sent up its helicopter to investigate. In contrast to this commendable local reporting...
Even after the boy was found safely at home, the mainstream media persisted in its sensationalism. They awarded the family several rounds of interviews in the days following the flight to keep the ratings-grabbing story alive. Upon exposure that it was a hoax two weeks in the making, the media persisted, conducting interviews with the Heenes’ lawyer and dispatching reporters to follow them to such mundane venues as their local Wal-Mart...
...reporting this event in the way it did, the mainstream media tacitly reaffirmed Heene’s belief in its own sensationalism and put this obvious yellow bent on display for the world to see. We encourage the media to take a close look at its coverage over the past week. Next time a similarly fantastical story should break, CNN, Fox News, and others must be more skeptical and ask more questions before jumping on board and letting the story supersede every other newsworthy issue. Such incidents do have a place in the news, but the media must be more...
...even if slothful mainstream media outlets cannot take up the task of challenging Fox, the burden of delegitimizing it shouldn’t fall on the executive branch. Recently, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made clear just how concerned the White House is in her indictment of Fox as “a wing of the Republican Party.” That slip reveals that the White House is in fact concerned with the lies surrounding the national discourse—concerned enough to attack it in an official public-relations capacity...