Tag Archives: media criticism

ABC News Ripped for Debate Moderation

Posted by JD Thomas on April 17, 2008 in Techfun Comments Off

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News. Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number  Read more »

The Customer is Not Always Right

Posted by JD Thomas on November 8, 2007 in Techfun 2 comments

I got into a discussion last night with Brian about the media’s role in politics. As I told him, I think flatly blaming the media is a cop-out. They make a great scapegoat, but there is a lot more to the issue than just placing blame. The US media is market driven just like Wal*Mart.  Read more »