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| Exclusive: News Execs Fire Back at GOP Media Attacks (Broadcasting and Cable) |
| After this week’s Republican National Convention unleashed a barrage of attacks on the news media for their coverage of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, network news executives defended their coverage and dismissed the charges as a stale political strategy meant to distract viewers from legitimate election issues. |
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| Some good news for a change (Manila Standard Today) |
| Bad news sells. Apparently, this is a truism as far as media is concerned. People are just interested in bad news and controversies or, at the very least, the unusual. Thus this is what media give the public. |
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| Palin takes jabs at Obama, news media (Honolulu Advertiser) |
| ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin electrified the Republican convention last night, pitching herself as a champion of government reform, mocking Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as an elitist and belittling media criticism of her experience. |
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