blognetnews.com
» New Jersey

rich lee on media

  • New URL

    You are being automatically re-directed to my new blog at:

    [richleeonline.wordpress.com]

    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 05, 2009, 4:21pm EST

  • Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

    With an unprecedented number of layoffs and buyouts, 2008 was a devastating year for journalism in New Jersey.

    Or was it?

    It all depends on whether you are looking at the glass as half empty or half full.

    From the half empty perspective, it was truly sad [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:34pm EST

  • A ‘Super’ Time to Choose a State Song

    When Super Bowl XLIII gets underway in Tampa on Sunday, neither of the NFL teams that play their home games in New Jersey will be on the field. But one New Jerseyan who has performed for large crowds at Giants Stadium will be there at Raymond James Stadium when the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 29, 2009, 2:07am EST

  • How Should Barack Obama Handle the Media?

    On the heels of his successful campaign and historic election, Barack Obama would not appear to be a man in need of advice on dealing with the news media. Ever since he emerged on the national scene at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he has enjoyed largely favorable, positive press [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 19, 2009, 8:15pm EST

  • Are State of the State of the Speeches Obsolete?

    Today’s State of the State of speech has me wondering what function these types of events serve in the 21st Century -- not just New Jersey’s annual State of the State address, but the countless “State of…” speeches that are given all over the country at this time of year [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 12, 2009, 9:15pm EST

  • Obama’s First 100 Days

    I will be taking part in a panel discussion about start of the Obama Administration. The session takes place Saturday, January 17, at the State House Annex, starting at 11 a.m.

    Titled What’s Next for America: Barack Obama’s First 100 Days in Office, the discussion also will include [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 08, 2009, 2:17am EST

  • Defending NJ Against All Odds

    New Jersey often is the butt of jokes and the target of harsh criticism. Sometimes the comments that come our way are unfair. But at other times, it is not too difficult to understand why the rest of the country takes a dim view of the Garden State. Consider these [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 19, 2008, 1:42am EST

  • Blaming the Media - Again

    Several years ago, I had the opportunity to hear M. William Howard Jr. speak at a luncheon. His talk was compelling and captured the attention of a group of people who had busy agendas and heavy schedules.

    Because of this experience, I found it especially disturbing for Howard [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 19, 2008, 1:30am EST

  • Caroline Kennedy, the Author

    Prior to her interest in the U.S. Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy has shied away from the public spotlight throughout most of her life – an issue that has been raised by critics of her possible appointment to the seat. We don’t know how all this eventually will play out, but [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 19, 2008, 12:55am EST

  • The Year's Top Public Policy Developments

    It is that time again when lists of the year’s top stories begin to emerge in newspapers and magazines, on radio and TV stations, and online in websites, blogs and emails. My list is a little different. Instead of news stories, I decided to take a crack at identifying the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 18, 2008, 11:39pm EST

  • We Can't Let This Bank Fail

    I am departing from my usual topics today to take part in an important and innovative campaign to increase public awareness of the need to keep our food pantries well-stocked. As part of Blogging Out Hunger, bloggers from all over New Jersey are posting information today about the increased [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 14, 2008, 10:33pm EST

  • Lesiure Time, Pseudo Events and Politics

    The emergence of leisure time decreased public interest and involvement at the end of the 19th Century and the start of the 20th, but leisure time may also have much to do with the current state of politics and journalism in the U.S.

    It should come as no surprise [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 19, 2008, 8:30pm EST

  • One Campaign Over, A New One Begins

    While Barack Obama assembles his cabinet and works on other transition issues, New Jersey already is thinking about another election – the state’s 2009 campaign for Governor.

    On the Democratic side, there is little drama. Unless he is offered a cabinet post in the Obama Administration, incumbent Jon Corzine [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 06, 2008, 12:39pm EST

  • A Brave Old World?

    Last year, I conducted a mini-study on Election Night to learn how quickly the state’s newspapers were posting results online. I found that the newspaper websites were providing the information just as quickly as radio and TV. The results of my mini-study are online in a paper titled Has [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 05, 2008, 11:24pm EST

  • Book Chapter

    A chapter I wrote about protest music and the Vietnam War will be included in an upcoming anthology on war, media and communication. The book is scheduled to be published next year by McFarland & Company, Inc., of Jefferson, N.C.

    In the chapter, I explain how protest songs [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 05, 2008, 11:19pm EST

  • A Quick Take at the Election Results

    For New Jersey, the most significant developments took place at the Congressional level. As anticipated, Barack Obama carried the state by a comfortable margin and Frank Lautenberg cruised to victory. Although coattails from the top of ticket helped Democrats win the third district seat, they failed to materialize in either [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 04, 2008, 10:37pm EST

  • State House Discussion

    Earlier today, I moderated a panel on New Jersey’s System of Government at the State House.

    The session was part of Montclair State University’s Student Leader Day. Panelists included staff members from the legislative and executive branches of state government, as well as Assemblymen Thomas Giblin and Frederick Scalera.
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 27, 2008, 2:43pm EDT

  • At the Movies

    Votes on controversial legislation often are split along partylines. Expect a similar reaction to W., Oliver Stone’s new movie chronicling the life and times of George W. Bush.

    Conservatives are likely to protest that the film presents an unfair and inaccurate picture of our 43rd President and is yet [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 17, 2008, 2:30am EDT

  • A Guaranteed Method of Avoiding Misquotes

    When a reporter quotes a public official (or anyone else for that matter), the person being quoted does not get an opportunity to see the quote before it is printed, aired or posted. That’s basic journalism.

    But things weren’t always this way.

    In the late 1800s and early [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 16, 2008, 6:36pm EDT

  • Improving Presidential Debates

    General consensus is that there is plenty of room for improvement in the format of presidential debates. Let’s hope that changes are made before the 2012 campaign.

    One item I would addressed is the selection of the debate moderators. Nothing against those who handled the task this year. But [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 16, 2008, 5:47pm EDT

  • Hall Institute TV

    The changing landscape of New Jersey media will be the focus of The Hall Institute Forum when the 30-minute public affairs television program begins a new season this week.

    In this week's Hall Institute Forum, I discuss the state of the news industry with Jerome Aumente, a Professor Emeritus' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 11, 2008, 5:54pm EDT

  • It’s Time to Get Serious About Comedy

    By gaining concessions from two labor unions and buyouts from some 200 of its non-union employees, The Star-Ledger has managed to stay in business. Now, in the words of Ledger editor Jim Willse, it is time “to start making plans for the paper going forward.”

    But with about a [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 09, 2008, 5:04pm EDT

  • Does the End Justify the Means?

    Postings on PolitickertNJ about a Bergen Record reporter and whether he improperly removed public documents from the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection raise an interesting journalism ethical question.

    Regardless of what the circumstances of this particular case (and the reporter claims he mistakenly mixed them in with [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 05, 2008, 6:30pm EDT

  • Missing from the 'Rat' Story

    Today’s Star-Ledger and Trenton Times include a story about a court case involving a giant inflatable rat that labor unions use in protests against anti-union activities The article notes that a union official was issued a summons and fined for using the rat at a protest in Lawrence Township, [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 05, 2008, 5:29pm EDT

  • The Last Time A Woman Debated for VP

    The last and only time a man and woman faced each other in a vice-presidential debate was 1984 when Geraldine Ferraro was the Democratic candidate and George H. W. Bush the Republican. Earlier this year while I was working on a study of media coverage of female politicians in [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 02, 2008, 8:21pm EDT

  • A New First for Sarah Palin

    Today, Sarah Palin managed to accomplish something that many us thought would never happen. She has managed to get MSNBC and the Fox News Channel to agree.

    The Palin campaign was criticized from both the left and the right for barring reporters from her meetings with meetings with Afghan [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 23, 2008, 2:05pm EDT

  • A Family Affair?

    Near the end of Saturday’s Rutgers-Navy football game, Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel took a swing at one of his teammates. Afterward, Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano and the players characterized the incident as "a family matter."

    That’s all well and good. From all indications, it was an unfortunate [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 21, 2008, 11:12pm EDT

  • What's Wrong With This Picture?

    This photo (or variations of it) appeared in news reports about the nation’s economic crisis yesterday and today. It shows the officials who are working to address the problem - (from left) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Securities and Exchange [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 20, 2008, 10:30am EDT

  • The Economy & the Race for Governor

    This week’s economic developments have fueled speculation about how the nation’s faltering fiscal health will impact the 2008 presidential election. But looking further ahead to 2009, what does the fiscal crisis mean for New Jersey's next gubernatorial race? I made an attempt to answer this question in a piece I [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 19, 2008, 1:16am EDT

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Today's revelation that a computer hacker had broken into Sarah Palin's personal email account could have some interesting repercussions in New Jersey.

    Supporters of the Republican vice-presidential candidate contend that this represents an invasion of privacy, but others have no problem with disclosure of the emails since several [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 19, 2008, 12:38am EDT

  • Media Bias in the Political Process

    Last week, I had the honor of speaking at Ocean County College’s Fall Colloquium on the topic media Media Bias in the Political Process. In my talk, I took the position that there is no widespread bias in the media today. However, I did outline what I perceive to [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 04, 2008, 3:31pm EDT

  • In The News

    My opinion piece on the historical significance of this week's Democratic National Convention was published in the Bergen Record on Sunday. Click to read "Historical dimensions."

    In addition, U.S. 1 Newspaper was kind enough to print my research essay on the private lives of public officials, a paper [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: August 25, 2008, 4:57pm EDT

  • Is There More to Olympic Coverage Than Meeets the Eye?

    Today’s official opening of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing brings to mind a study I found several years ago while I was writing a paper about The West Wing.

    One of the areas I was exploring was whether the popular television program promoted nationalism. While conducting my [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: August 08, 2008, 4:15am EDT

  • Summertime Blues

    The months of July and August are traditionally slow times for news. Although New Jersey has had a few significant stories break this summer (such as child pornography allegations involving a state legislator), for the most part it has been a slow time for news in the Garden State.
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: August 07, 2008, 2:39pm EDT

  • Censorship at the Olympics

    Journalists covering the 2008 Olympics will not have access to websites considered sensitive by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games (BOGOG), such as the website for Amnesty International, which has been critical of China’s policies on human rights. Compounding the issue is the fact that the ban runs [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 30, 2008, 2:29pm EDT

  • Fifty-seven channels (and nothing on)

    The nation’s floundering economy, the war in Iraq, and the need to improve our healthcare system are at the top of the long list of challenges that New Jersey’s next U.S. Senator will confront in Washington, D.C. But you would never know that from reading the state’s daily newspapers over [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 30, 2008, 12:53pm EDT

  • EPA Gag Order

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued what amounts to a gag order to its employees, instructing them not to respond to questions from reporters. A memo obtained by the Associated Press shows that EPA workers are being directed to forward emails and calls from the media to the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 29, 2008, 3:30pm EDT

  • Springsteen Returns to NJ

    With Bruce Springsteen coming to town, we posted a series of papers about “The Boss” and his impact on NJ on the Hall Institute website today. Links to the papers – as well as a few extras -- are below:
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 25, 2008, 3:29pm EDT

  • A Victory for the Tillerman

    Sometimes, stories that seem plausible often are as accepted as fact – because they fit a logical storyline, not because they are substantiated. In their book, The Press Effect, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman suggest several examples of how the media has framed stories to fit the expected storylines.
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 18, 2008, 1:22pm EDT

  • NJN, Gannett and the Cincinnati Reds

    Kent Manahan’s impending retirement as anchor of New Jersey Network news has reignited discussion about the propriety of a news organization funded by the government it covers. But the relationship between NJN and New Jersey state government is just one example of the many strange bedfellows resulting from the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 18, 2008, 1:03am EDT

  • No Charges in Trooper Case

    No criminal charges will be filed in connection with allegations that State Police troopers took part in a sexual assault of a college student in Mercer County. This is a story that took some strange twists in the press after it broke late last year. For a [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 17, 2008, 4:38pm EDT

  • Reflecting on 1968

    The Asociación de la Historia Actual has published an article of mine in its spring bulletin.

    The article, The Music Was More Than Just A Soundtrack for the Events of 1968, is part of a special section on the anniversary of the protests of 1968. The piece explains [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 27, 2008, 2:12pm EDT

  • Outsourcing the Newsroom

    When I was a reporter at The News Tribune, we hired a copy editor from Texas. Although he knew the English language well, he was not familiar with New Jersey, and sometimes made errors, such as confusing the Garden State Parkway with the New Jersey Turnpike.

    This comes to [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 26, 2008, 6:13pm EDT

  • Opie Never Had A Chance

    It was disappointing to learn that the Rome Diocese didn’t even bother to read the script for the film Angels and Demons before denying Ron Howard permission to shoot scenes inside two churches in Rome's historic center.

    "Normally, we read the script, but this time it was not necessary," [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 17, 2008, 4:43pm EDT

  • NJ's Number Two Slot

    Yesterday's Star-Ledger story about New Jersey's new Lieutenant Governor post provided a long list of possible contenders for the position and outlined some of the factors that will come into play in choosing a candidate. While the piece made for interesting reading, let's hope that as 2009 election draws [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 16, 2008, 1:40pm EDT

  • Daddy Boot Camp Revisited

    On Father's Day, the Star-Ledger ran a page one story about Daddy Boot Camp, a program that teaches fathers-to-be parenting skills. The story was generally positive in tone, unlike my April 25 posting on the program. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 16, 2008, 1:34pm EDT

  • A Question of Advertising

    A two-page ad alleging that same sex marriages threaten our nation appeared simultaneously in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Times last week. The ad – and the reactions it has received – raise interesting questions.

    News organizations have the right to turn [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 12, 2008, 1:33pm EDT

  • NJ Media Covering Women Lawmakers Well, But Less Often

    New Jersey’s female legislators won’t find their names in the news as often as their male colleagues, but when the state’s women lawmakers are included in media reports, they generally are treated on a par with men. That's what I found when I studied media coverage of the record number [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 29, 2008, 7:08pm EDT

  • Changing Times

    Aside from who made the list and who did not, one of the most interesting things about Don Sico’s list of The 10 Best Political Journalists in New Jersey is the type of media that compromise the Top 10.

    Three of the slots are filled by television [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 21, 2008, 1:30am EDT

  • NY Follows the Garden State for a Change

    New Jersey often plays second fiddle to New York in many areas, among them the media. But it was a New Jersey newspaper to first report that New York Mets manager Willie Randolph had injected race into the discussion about his performance at the helm of the club. After the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 21, 2008, 12:50am EDT

  • Reflections on Ted Kennedy

    Today’s diagnosis that Senator Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor is sad news for all Americans, regardless of one’s political or ideological persuasion.

    Through a strange series of events, I was privileged to write a short quote for Senator Kennedy in 2001 for a press release promoting [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 20, 2008, 6:18pm EDT

  • Every Day the Paper Boy Brings More

    Immigration was a hot topic in early days of the 2008 presidential campaign, but it has since been eclipsed by the economy and other weighty matters such as lapel pins, cleavage and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

    In New Jersey, however, immigration has returned to the headlines, thanks to comments [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 01, 2008, 4:54pm EDT

  • Taking Issue with "Daddy Boot Camp"

    The cover story in the May/June 2008 issue of Health Focus, a health magazine published by the Princeton Health Care System, describes a program that teaches fathers-to-be parenting skills. The program, although well-intentioned, reinforces sexual stereotypes and ultimately reduces, rather then increases, male involvement in substantive responsibilities of parenting.
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 25, 2008, 1:53pm EDT

  • The Difficulty in Analyzing Newspaper Coverage

    Although quantitative analysis has been used frequently in media research, its weaknesses often diminish its value -- something that we should all keep in mind as we follow the upcoming elections in the press.

    In his book Analysing Newspapers: An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis, John Richardson explains [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 17, 2008, 11:52pm EDT

  • Sports and Society

    My interview with Trenton Thunder General Manager is below.

    Part 1



    Part 2



    Part 3

    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 16, 2008, 9:06pm EDT

  • Sports and Society

    Click on the links below to view my interview with Trenton Thunder General Manager Brad Taylor.



    Part II


    Part III
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 14, 2008, 1:14am EDT

  • Remembering Dith Pran


    When New York Times photojournalist Dith Pran covered a press conference or a news event in the area, he looked like any other photographer doing his job. Unless you knew otherwise, there were no signs that Dith was the man who endured four years of starvation [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 02, 2008, 11:22pm EDT

  • The Symbiotic Relationship between Government and the Media

    A March 16 New York Post story reported that about 22,000 city building owners were behind on their water bills. Several of the entities which owed the most money were listed by name. Among them was Pratt Institute with a bill of $442,000.

    The story, however, shows no [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 02, 2008, 4:29pm EDT

  • Journalism During Wartime

    Investigative Journalism in a Time of War is the title of a panel discussion being presented at Rutgers University by the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. The session will take place on Wednesday, April 16, starting at 6 p.m.

    The featured speakers are Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 01, 2008, 4:53pm EDT

  • Roger Stone on his Way to NJ

    PolitickerNJ is reporting that veteran GOP strategist Roger Stone will be the guest speaker at an April 16 fundraiser for Essex County Republican Chairman Kevin O’Toole. Stone is a fascinating and colorful figure who has played a role in GOP politics for decades. But I believe he has [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 27, 2008, 6:00pm EDT

  • A Busy March

    I haven’t been posting as frequently as usual this month. Instead, I’ve been taking part in some special events.

    I participated in Rutgers University’s Celebration of Recently Published Faculty Authors on March 25. This was because I teach part-time at the university and also authored one of the chapters [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 27, 2008, 12:30pm EDT

  • Media Discussion

    Bernard Goldberg’s book Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite will be the focus of a special program at the Princeton Public Library on Wednesday, April 9. Joan Goldstein, a sociologist, author and professor at Mercer County Community College, will lead the discussion. The session starts at 7:30 p.m. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 25, 2008, 8:38pm EDT

  • Conference Presentations

    I will be speaking at two academic conferences in New York City this month.

    On Saturday, March 15, I will present my paper, The Impact of New Jersey Newspapers on the Development of the State’s Transportation Infrastructure, at the AJHA-AEJMC History Division Joint Journalism Historians meeting. The [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 06, 2008, 2:36pm EST

  • Trading Places on West State Street

    The news that Star-Ledger reporter Deborah Howlett is leaving her job covering Governor Corzine to take a job working for Corzine as his Communications Director raised eyebrows in Trenton this week, especially since it came on the heels of a similar decision by another high profile Ledger writer: Columnist Tom [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 21, 2008, 11:59pm EST

  • Anonymous Sources: From Baseball and Steroids to Trenton and a Basketball Tournament

    One of the many questions remaining unresolved after this week’s Congressional hearing on steroid use is how much credibility to give to anonymous sources. Indeed when the Mitchell Report was issued in December, naming 89 present and former Major League Baseball players as steroid users, one of first points raised [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 14, 2008, 6:10pm EST

  • How News Frames Shaped the Super Tuesday Coverage

    Almost without exception, the state’s daily newspapers led their New Jersey primary stories with language indicating that Hillary Clinton had held off a challenge from Barack Obama:

    Gannett - Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated the late-surging Barack Obama in New Jersey's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday…”

    Courier-Post - Hillary Rodham [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 07, 2008, 5:38pm EST

  • Did PR Help the Giants Get to the Super Bowl?

    Ask a group of Giants fans why the team from East Rutherford had a successful season that culminated in a Super Bowl vistory and you probably will hear a myriad of responses.

    Eli Manning's maturity at quarterback, Plaxico Buress’ athleticism, Brandon Jacobs’ brute strength and the emergence of Ahmad [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 29, 2008, 6:18pm EST

  • Pouring Salt on an Old Wound

    Since the Giants moved to the Meadowlands in 1976, New Jerseyans have lamented the fact that the official name of the team remains the New York Giants. With the Giants headed for a Super Bowl showdown with the New England Patriots, the Associated Press is pouring salt on this old [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 27, 2008, 7:46pm EST

  • Arrested Developments in Cape May

    Clearly it is news when a high profile figure like former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan is arrested for displaying protest signs outside of Governor Corzine’s recent Cape May County Town Hall Meeting on his debt reduction/toll increase proposal.

    But is the volume of coverage the incident received this week [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 24, 2008, 5:59pm EST

  • Photoshop Gone Wild

    Last November, there was considerable controversy over an Asbury Park Press photo illustration of the Governor Corzine’s asset monetization plan. Now a photo illustration on the cover of Golfweek magazine has cost the publication’s editor his job.

    According to the New York Times, the cover image included [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 22, 2008, 12:07am EST

  • Obama, Green Bay and a Prayer

    Traditional, mainstream media outlets often are critical of blogs and websites for posting unsubstantiated information, which makes its rounds on the Internet and can be regarded as fact by its readers. But mainstream media doesn’t help its case when it elevates the status of such internet rumors. That’s what NBC’s [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 19, 2008, 4:38pm EST

  • Looking Beyond the Numbers

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect upon Dr. King’s dream of racial equality, equal justice, equal opportunity and world peace. Indeed, his dream is closer to reality today because he forced the most powerful nation on the face of the earth to examine the moral consequences [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 19, 2008, 2:53pm EST

  • Martin Luther King

    I will be moderating two panel discussions on Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend. The sessions are part of 2008 Trenton Martin Luther King Week. For details, visit http://www.trentonmlkweek2008.blogspot.com/. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 17, 2008, 12:07am EST

  • Revisiting the Newark Evening News

    A panel discussion on the defunct and often-praised Newark Evening News will take place at the Newark Public Library on Tuesday, January 29. Four journalists who worked at the paper will participate in the program, which begins at 6 p.m. Complete deatils are online at [www.npl.org]. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 16, 2008, 11:16pm EST

  • News Coverage

    My comments on the Governor's State of the State address were included in an Associated Press story that appeared in several papers this week. Some of the links are below.
    Philadelphia Inquirer
    Atlantic City Press
    Asbury Park Press
    Home News Tribune
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 11, 2008, 12:02pm EST

  • Attacking State Debt

    With the State of New Jersey in dismal fiscal condition and facing even greater dire consequences for future, Governor Corzine has taken a business approach -- not a political one toward righting the states financial ship.

    In his State of the State address today, Corzine, the former chief [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 08, 2008, 9:00am EST

  • Silence and the Judge

    Its disappointing that Karen Munster Cassidy, the Superior Court judge in the McGreevey divorce case, declined the Star-Ledgers request to be interviewed for a profile story the newspaper wrote about her.

    Clearly, Cassidy had a right to decline the interview and there may be a legal reason [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 07, 2008, 10:03pm EST

  • Focusing on the Wrong Target

    Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow is in no position to complain about the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is facilitating the surrender of Otis Blunt, a convict who escaped from the county jail in December.

    The Star-Ledger is reporting that Romankow is upset because Sharpton's National Action Network [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 07, 2008, 8:13pm EST

  • Irony in the Bullying Bill

    One of the many bills slated for final approval before the current legislative comes to a close on Tuesday is a measure that would strengthen state law on hate crimes and bullying. The bill would amend existing law to include crimes based on gender and identity expression, national origin [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 06, 2008, 5:16pm EST

  • Sometimes the Facts Don't Match the Storylines

    In her book The Press Effect, Kathleen Hall Jamieson devotes a chapter to what she calls The Press as Storyteller. In it, she uses the 1988 Willie Horton ad, the disputed 2000 presidential election, the Enron scandal and other examples to illustrate how journalists can err in their reporting. Jamieson [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 05, 2008, 9:07pm EST

  • Is There a "Please" in RSVP?

    Partisan politics and constructive debate play an important a role in our democracy, but far too often partisanship trumps responsibility and honesty. Case in point: the recent flap over the Town Hall meetings that Governor Corzine plans to hold regarding his financial restructuring and debt reduction plans.

    Apparently, Assembly [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 03, 2008, 5:45pm EST

  • All the News, Except for New Jersey

    In a posting on her politickernj.com column, Debbie Holtz laments the recent decision by The New York Times to eliminate editorials and op-ed articles from its Sunday New Jersey and the Region section. I share her sentiments and hope that this decision is not a harbinger of things to [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 03, 2008, 4:41pm EST

  • State of the State

    With Governor Corzine's State of the State address coming up next week, this is a good time to revisit The State of Speeches in 2007, a research essay I wrote last year about speeches and the speechwriting process. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: January 03, 2008, 1:39am EST

  • The AG, the Ledger and Jo Bo

    Mercer County Prosecutor Joe Bocchini's comments on the much-publicized case of alleged sex assault by state troopers were a refreshing change of pace from the usual legalese that surrounds these events. At a time when the public is rightfully demanding more transparency in government, Bochinni provided a rare insight [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 21, 2007, 9:37am EST

  • Creating News?

    Two unusual stories involving New Jersey are receiving coverage across the nation. The first centers on Francisco Nava, a Princeton University student who admitted e-mailing threats to himself and some friends, then faking an attack of himself. The other is about Max Weisberg and his efforts to get [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 18, 2007, 1:51pm EST

  • Troopers and Accountants

    In an Associated Press story about the seven New Jersey state troopers who were suspended with pay over a woman's claim that they sexually assaulted her, an attorney representing one of the troopers contends that the activity was consensual and that the troopers were off-duty when they met the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 18, 2007, 1:17pm EST

  • Different Stories on Fort Monmouth

    How did Wednesdays Congressional hearing on the decision to close Fort Monmouth go? It depends on which news reports you read because they vary widely.

    The Star-Ledger and Associated Press both reported that there is little chance the fort will remain open:

    AP: Pentagon officials aren't [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 14, 2007, 12:24am EST

  • Emails and Privacy

    While the debate and litigation continues over whether Governor Corzine's emails with Carla Katz should be made public, a federal agency has released a series of email exchanges from employees who once were romantically involved. The emails were made public by NASA and they involve a love triangle [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 13, 2007, 2:52am EST

  • New Jersey and 1968

    New Jersey was featured frequently on the History Channel's special on 1968.

    New Jerseyans Bruce Springsteen and Jon Stewart were among the people who shared their thoughts on that year with host Tom Brokaw. And the program also featured a segments on former Weatherman Mark Rudd (a native of [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 10, 2007, 8:05pm EST

  • Runway Safety - A Tale of Two Papers

    Its interesting to examine the different ways New Jersey newspapers chose to report the results of a new federal study that concluded that air travelers face a high risk of a catastrophic collision on U.S. airport runways.

    The best reporting came from the Bergen Records Tom Davis and Herb [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 07, 2007, 5:32pm EST

  • Sometimes the Public Gets What It Deserves - Part 2

    What if there was a revolt against toll increases and nobody came? Well almost nobody.

    Despite all we hear and read about toll increases and public anger these days, the Port Authoritys first public hearing on its plans to raise tolls on the bridges and tunnels that connect New [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 06, 2007, 7:49pm EST

  • Sometimes the Public Gets What It Deserves - Part 1

    Earlier this week, a group of leading political journalists gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for a forum on media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.

    In response to an audience member who asked why there seemed to be more coverage of personalities than issues, ABC [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 06, 2007, 7:45pm EST

  • Recommended Reading

    Jonathan Tilove of the Newhouse News Service has written an excellent piece on the tone of todays political campaigns. While Tilove focuses on Hillary Clinton and the personal attacks being directed against her, the article should provoke some needed soul-searching for anyone involved in political campaigns, especially those taking place [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 02, 2007, 8:12pm EST

  • Return of the I-Man

    Nearly eight months after being fired for comments about the Rutgers University womens basketball team, Don Imus returns to the airwaves on Monday as 77WABCs new morning host. Author Dave Zirin recently wrote an intriguing op-ed on the I-Mans return for the Los Angeles Times titled Why is [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 29, 2007, 6:08pm EST

  • A Picture is Not Always What It Seems


    The controversy over the Asbury Park Press photo illustration on the Governor Corzines asset monetization plan reminded me that even an unaltered photo can lead to debate.

    This photo, taken in Beirut in 2006, earned photographer Spencer Platt the 2006 Photo of the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 28, 2007, 7:56pm EST

  • A Chance To Speak Up

    If you feel that television is shortchanging New Jersey residents, youll have a chance to let the FCC know this week. The commission will hold a public forum in Newark on Wednesday to receive input on WWORs request to renew its license. Several organizations are opposing the renewal, arguing that [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 26, 2007, 4:28pm EST

  • The Power of the (Asbury Park) Press

    The Senate Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs Committee is scheduled to vote on a resolution next Thursday (November 29) urging Congress and the President to reverse the decision to close the Fort Monmouth. According to the resolution, the decision should be reversed because of information uncovered by [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: November 21, 2007, 1:52pm EST
← Dan Cirucci The Hillsider →

Blog Info:
rich lee on media

» http://richleeonmedia.blogspot.com/

Categories

BNN Traffic Index

Alexa: No data
0

Compete: No data
0

Quantcast: No data
1

BNN Traffic Index: No data

BNN Influence Index

Rank

This week: Not ranked this week.

Last week: Not ranked last week.

12-week Average:

BNN Authority Index

Technorati: 0

Google: 0

BNN Authority Index: No data

» Subscribe to the rich lee on media feed