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• Not Much Analysis in This Analysis'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Media Bias Debate, Cable News, Mcclatchy Newspapers, New Media, News Corp, Talk Radio, Wall Street Journal

  written by Steven Thomma for McClatchy Newspapers, is less of an honest look at the current media landscape than it is a yearning of the days of yore. The clue is in the third paragraph: All this comes as the traditional media landscape is shifting with earthquake force. Newspapers are watching readers shift to the Web. The big TV networks are

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• Courtiers of conventional wisdom

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Journalism, Bias, Objective, Mcclatchy, Media, Democracy, Conventional Wisdom

  is not coming back. McClatchy may fight a rear-guard action against reporting that starts from ideology instead of reality, or perhaps it will simply step into the barely served market for left-liberal reporting. If so, a good slogan could be A bias for facts, since most of the liberal world wants to know what actually is true.(More to

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• Media failed to resolve question of which members of Congress Freedom's Watch ads are targeting

  Published: August 24, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Jessica Yellin, Karen Tumulty, Kelly O Donnell, Cnn, Mcclatchy Newspapers, Nbc, The New York Times, The Situation Room, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Today Show, Usa Today, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  and an August 23 McClatchy article did not mention Freedom Watch's potential targets. On the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin claimed that Freedom Watch's ads "target[] wavering Democrats and Republicans." In an August 23 article, The New

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• Tim Johnson in the DPRK

  Published: September 29, 2007, 3:34 am

  Tags: Books Movies Media, East Asia, Dprk, Korea, Mcclatchy, North Korea, Pyongyang, Tim Johnson

  McClatchy’s Tim Johnson, and author of the blog, China Rises, lays his thoughts down about the DPRK in a video. For committed DPRK pundits, Johnson presents nothing new or shocking, and never really gets that far into the hermitic state or any particular place where he goes. One would think only about hundred people live in North Korea

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• Getting Out While The Getting Is Bad: Morgan Stanley Ditches 'Times' Stock; Newspapers Bite It In Third Quarter

  Published: October 17, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Earnings, Gannett, Getting Out While The Getting Bad, Hassan Elmasry, Mcclatchy, Morgan Stanley, New York Times Company, Ooh Girl, Print Dead Long Live Print

  After two years of a sustained assault on the Sulzberger family, Morgan Stanley has sold its 7.2 percent stake in New York Times Co. this morning. Unfortunately for the Times—and for Morgan...

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• Can't Make These Up: Old Media Searching Desperately for Bad News from Iraq

  Published: October 18, 2007, 8:37 am

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Iraq, Military, Wire Services, Associated Press, Mcclatchy Newspapers

  in the Iraqi economy, McClatchy writers Jay Price and Qasim Zein tell us that: A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

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• Beggar the future

  Published: November 3, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Naep, Education, Cep, South, Mcclatchy, Nces, Democracy

  Public education is the lifeblood of American democracy. As the South's record in recent elections shows, an undereducated population is ripe for political manipulation, even against its own economic interest. Of course, there are cultural and social factors at work as well, and the people are not stupid, despite what Hollywood says. I still

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• Gary Pruitt: Let Us Now Praise the Last Mass Medium

  Published: November 5, 2007, 7:46 am

  Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, News And Democracy, Gary Pruitt, Last Mass Medium, Lisa Monaco, Mcclatchy, Morgan Stanley

  we now re-define drama, as McClatchy's share price tumbles to $16 a share?  So as a CEO response, I get it. It's what you should say to try to give the Street the notion that you're managing the transition. And McClatchy is trying hard. But with even 9% of its revenues derived from digital, McClatchy, like the rest of the

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• Mercury News claimed CA ballot initiative has "bipartisan support," cited one donor whose "main interest is GOP power"

  Published: November 14, 2007, 1:15 pm

  Tags: Mcclatchy Newspapers, California Initiative, Electoral Reform, Government And Elections

  The November 11 "Capitol Beat" column in the San Jose Mercury News on donors supporting a controversial proposal to award California's electoral votes by congressional district featured the headline: "Election initiative reveals bipartisan support: Election initiative enjoys surprising bipartisan support." Referring to the funding for the

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• Bozell: TV Networks Ungrateful for Surge Success

  Published: November 22, 2007, 3:15 am

  Tags: Iraq, Media Bias Debate, Brent Bozell, Fox Amp Amp Friends, Mcclatchy Newspapers, Mrc Nb News

  a joke.BOZELL: That's the McClatchy paper chain. That's their headline.KILMEADE: Yeah, the glass is always half empty.

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• Nine Questions for Publishers This "Media Week"

  Published: December 3, 2007, 1:25 am

  Tags: 9 Questions, Advertising, Daily Newspaper Companies, Google, Yahoo, Belo, Dow Jones, Fcc, Gannett, Hearst, Kevin Martin, Mcclatchy, Media General, Media News, Media Week, New York Times, Scripps, Tribune, Washington Post

  "Media Week" takes place in New York this week, as public newspaper company CEOs talk about the state of their companies with Wall Street financial analysts who cover the trade. As a sign of the times, the number of those analysts covering newspapers has been diminished by a couple this year. Why? More of the newspaper industry is going private --

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• Newspapers Get New Life Online

  Published: December 6, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: News, Gannett, Mcclatchy Co, Newspapers, Online News Sites, The Washington Post, Yahoo

  In light of a terrible economic year, newspaper publishers have had to come up with creative ways to drive traffic to their websites in hopes of not only improving readership, but also generating more revenue through advertising. Many are increasing offerings of news, advertising and videos on their respective sites to potentially accomplish this.

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• More Newspaper Firings: Sun-Times (SVN) May Whack 35

  Published: January 5, 2008, 8:21 am

  Tags: Henry Blodget, Home, Mcclatchy, Newspapers

  on the Journal Register or McClatchy. With only $166 million of cash and about $50 million of cash burn per quarter, Sun-Times Media may not be far behind.Bloomberg via NYT:The Chicago Sun-Times, the flagship newspaper of the Sun-Times Media Group has proposed cutting 35 union newsroom positions, or about 19 percent of the paper’s

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• A Different Newspaper

  Published: January 1, 2008, 4:42 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Mcclatchy

  based on articles in the McClatchy newspapers. I think it's one of the best newspapers in this country. I've been surprised this past week when two other publications I read - The Wall Street Journal and the NY Review of Books - featured the McClatchy chain. The Journal's article talked about the recent problems McClatchy has had after a long

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• And Still the Baghdad Embassy isn't complete!

  Published: January 12, 2008, 1:55 am

  Tags: Green Zone, Crocker Ryan, First Kuwaiti, Corruption, Mcclatchy, Petraeus David, Embassy

  according to the documents McClatchy obtained.His own fire-safety specialists and an outside consultant, however, had warned Williams and his aides repeatedly about numerous fire safety violations.Moreover, Williams' thumbs-up was based on tests run by another contractor that was hired, not by the State Department, but by the company building

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