PEJ: For the first time this year, “tabloid gold” fever seized at least some of the news media last week in a significant way, according to PEJ’s News Coverage Index from February 4 to February 9. Though it only made up two days of coverage, the sudden death of the Playmate turned heiress turned reality…
Regret The Error: Gather ’round for our annual collection of the funny, shocking, sad and disturbing media errors and corrections from the past year. From typos that celebrate Queen Elizabeth and her remarkable egg-laying abilities, to media hoaxes, unreliable sources, the Sago disaster and apologies for mistakes nearly 120 years ago, it was a good…
NYT: In recent years, Al Qaeda has formed a special media production division called Al Sahab to produce videos about leaders like Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri, terrorism experts say. The group largely once relied on Arab television channels like Al Jazeera to broadcast its videos and taped messages. Al Sahab, whose name means…
Roy Gutman, DART, via Romenesko: For example: a deportation of Bosnian Muslims from a village on the Drina by the Serbian state railways in sealed passenger cars—which could only have happened on the orders of the top officials in the state. Upon hearing about the existence of concentration camps, I made an enormous effort to…
NYT sports magazine Play debuts Sunday White House News Photographers contest results Why US newspapers aren’t running offensive muslim cartoons Lovecraft’s Cthulu done in Lego Pac-Man tattoo History of cookie-monster death metal vocals, from the Wall Street Journal? NYT: Russia’s biggest film coming to US
