Media in the 2012 Election

Guest Questions

Complete the sentence, much more important than all this microdata stuff is ....?

Tim Curry talked about all the unknowns. How many of them are actually knowns?  How do you slowly convert the others into knowns?

What should we make of current Hillary Polls?

Talk a little bit about political advertising specifically image vs. text?

Some of the class have written with skepticism about the rebranding of the GOP. Discuss?

 

 

Tow Center Report musings

The model of this class and its relation to these new news models

ScotusBlog

Texas Trib. (And Ct Mirror, the New Haven Independent, and some words about self-limitation and partnership. And the issue of slack.)

Homicide Watch DC.

Digital First.

Traffic whoring -- pros and cons.

Charisma -- Andrew Sullivan.

The Who is Responsible Question.

Get off the Bus.  Pro-Am journalism.

Narrative Science -- robots will replace us.

Leverage vs. the McMahon campaign

If journalism is, at its root, designed to provide the public with the information it needs to be self-governing, and if part of that information is the insight that emerges from the aggressive and often hostile monitoring of a variety of social institutions, why would anyone in power ever talk to a journalist? Why would the subjects of monitorial scrutiny not simply communicate with each other and with the public directly, avoiding all dealings with news reporters? In part, for self-interested reasons: government officials and other powerful people know that talking to the press is always an opportunity, however limited, to ‘get your side of the story out,’ even if the results will ultimately be damning. In part, however, officials engage with the press because these officials fear the consequences of non-response.

Chris 'n' Jon

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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The Hillary Times

I'm using a tool called Spundge to collect stuff, and the sheer amount of Hillary 2016 material is amazing.

A roundup.

Here's one of the MANY reactions to the Gingrich pronouncement.

Here's the Limbaugh backlash.

Here's Cuomo not on the bandwagon.

And there's this very important news item.

A lot of polls being brandished around.  Always good, as we have said, to inspect the actual poll.

This Week's Big Read

I was going to spare you this, but it really is good. 

And it's mostly pretty readable.

It's a brand new much discussed present-and-future-of-journalism report.

You can skip or skim the "ecosystem" section. I couldn't make sense of large swatches of it.

For Monday

Rather than blasting a lot of links at you, I'd like to pick three  or four things that we all read.

One is this post-mortem. Publish

Narrowcasting

I like this:

(Ed found it):

This strategy is complex. It entails collecting good focus group and polling data on groups like Latinos and Asian-Americans, then carefully combing through a political agenda, then finding a fit that homes in on issues of particular concern to groups like Latinos and Asian-Americans without repelling support from one’s party base or centrist Independents. For Latinos, that issue might be some narrow elements of immigration reform, like allowing children a path to citizenship through college or the military – a policy that was needlessly attacked by Republican leaders. For Asian-Americans, either party might make inroads without raising a ruckus by strengthening incentives for highly skilled immigrants or by finding non-polarizing ways of further supporting the enforcement of language accommodations in existing election laws. For African-Americans, now might be an opportune moment for either party to take a strong stand against Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law or especially egregious forms of racial profiling, without incurring a full-on political backlash.

After you air your reports ...

We should tak about whether or when the press sould cover this stuff.

Pretty clear what Christie as to do

Thump Obama.

Just in Time

Good timing for us.

Ooops. They're not setting her up against Christie.