State of the News Media 2005: Network TV
The networks face the classic dilemma of a legacy industry.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The networks face the classic dilemma of a legacy industry.
The challenge for cable news is that it has now reached adulthood.
After several difficult years, there are some positive signs heading into 2005 for local television news, the most pervasive source of news for Americans, if not always the most respected.
For decades now, the world of news magazines has been dominated by three brands. Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report have been around for so long without serious challengers that the news genre has seemed the exception to the rule of the constantly shifting world of magazine publishing.
For decades now, the world of news magazines has been dominated by three brands. Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report have been around for so long without serious challengers that the news genre has seemed the exception to the rule of the constantly shifting world of magazine publishing.
Most media analysis tends to focus on seismic shifts. Plummeting viewership. Skyrocketing profit margins. Grand scandals. Declining public trust. Radio is interesting in part because it tends to defy such characterizations. Its struggles and transformations usually occur just below the surface. Change is based on gradual progression, and, if we were to watch only the numbers, 2004 would be viewed as a year of seeming, even dull, stability.
As the immigrant population of the U.S. continues to grow, so too, apparently, do the ethnic media.
Speech delivered at the Washington Press Club
Our content analysis also shows measurable differences in what each of the cable networks puts on the air. This study made no attempt to identify bias, or whether one network tilted to the Democrats or Republicans. Some more basic distinctions, however, were evident. Fox was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox journalists […]
A speech delivered at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005