Today's Fresh Blogs...

• eBay Ad Exchange In Business

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: News, Ebay, Intel, Online Media Exchange, Oxygen, Web Sites

  past May, eBay launched an Online Media Exchange which functions as an ad exchange to buy and sell TV time. Most networks have been skeptical about the idea; however the Oxygen network took a risk that has seemed to have paid off. Being the first successful seller on the advertising exchange, Oxygen has sold a schedule for the third quarter to

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• Slate Trawls Facebook to Find Anti-Giuliani Scoop From Ex-Mayor's Daughter

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Lucy Morrow Caldwell, Rudy Giuliani, Online Media, Facebook, Slate, Journalistic Issues

  Slate magazine found out that Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline has a crush on Obama. Well, maybe not a crush, but she had joined a pro-Obama Facebook group and describes herself as "liberal" (but then that's also how many Republican voters would describe Caroline's father). The article, complete with evidentiary screen grab, was written

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• Black Liberal Blogger: WashPost Wrong on Hand-Wringing on Diversity

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Jose Antonio Vargas, Online Media, Blogs, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  while the mainstream media are stuck in an industrial old media mindset where an affirmative action model is the rubric for approaching a "solution" to the "problem" of underrepresentation of minorities in the (left-wing) blogosphere.

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• Chicago Tribune Religion Blogger: Is Just a Little Bit of Porn Okay?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Religion, Sexuality, Manya Brachear, Online Media, Blogs, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek

  I like that mainstream media do take some efforts to report more religion and faith news items these days, including blogs like "The Seeker" at Chicago Tribune's home on the Web and the ongoing "On Faith" feature hosted by the Washington Post and Newsweek. But just as I ripped "On Faith" for asking if good

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• Christianity Today Editor Suggests That Reuters Is Sloppy, Clueless on Religion Reporting

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Christianity, Religion, Ted Olsen, Online Media, Wire Services, Blogs, Christianity Today, Reuters, Magazines

  with stories about the media not getting religion, so I might as well get another amen from the choir in the comments threads. Christianity Today's Ted Olsen explained yesterday at his magazine's "Liveblog" why he doesn't rely on Reuters for that ol' time religion (reporting): Today's nonsensical headline from Reuters: "New

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• Facebook Feature Plagued With Outdated Headlines; GOP Ones Skew Negative

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Libertarians, Barack Obama, Online Media, Facebook, Newsvine

  Republican Party in 2008. Immediately below are three of the "latest politics headlines" on Newsvine.com, the Web site that created and manages the Facebook application. Yet the headlines were hardly the "latest" and had nothing to do with the 2008 race or its principals. What's more, all three headlines carried downbeat

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• Blogger Ed Morrissey Finds Dem Donor Hosting Fake Fred Thompson Site

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:33 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Fred Thompson, Online Media, Blogs, Godaddy Com

  This is still developing apparently, but Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters is all over what appears to be a hare-brained smear of presumptive GOP presidential candidate and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. Here's an excerpt: It doesn't take long for provocateurs to crawl out of the woodwork to attack candidates, especially in stealth

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• Couric Conducts Decent Interview With Conservative Think Tank Official

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Health Care, Political Groups, Katie Couric, Robert Moffitt, Online Media, Blogs, Couric Amp Amp Co

  question #4, but Moffitt immediately pointed out that foreigners seeking treatment in America are fleeing inefficient, shoddy socialized medicine in their home countries. Here are Couric's questions. For Moffitt's answers, check here.: 1) If you could change ONE thing about our health care system, what would that be? 2) Most people agree

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• BBC's Flawed Reporting on Taliban's Korean Hostage Release

  Published: September 4, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Christianity, Radical Islam, Religion, South Korea, Taliban, Online Media, Foreign Non English Media, Bbc, Blogs, Journalistic Issues

  hostages tootled BBC Views Online last week, except of course the headline is not quite right. Not all of the hostages were freed, unless you count the two poor souls who were murdered and dumped in ditches as having been 'freed' too. Those who clicked on the errant headline did find out, in paragraphs four and five, that: The Taleban seized

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• Walking Through August's Real Earnings Report for Old Media Outlets That Ignored It

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Economic News, Economy, Wages Amp Amp Prices, Online Media, Google

  (in quotes), that Old Media business reporters found what came out in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Real Earnings Report too difficult to understand. The search shows that only the Providence Journal among Old Media outlets mentioned the report, which was released Wednesday. So in the interest of education, I'll break down the BLS report

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• On Ed Driscoll's Atlas Mugged,' and Breaking Old Media's Stranglehold

  Published: September 23, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Blogs, Business Coverage, Economy, Entertainment Media, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Iraq War, Media Bias Debate, Talk Radio, U S Military, G Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Online Media, Wire Services, Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Radio, Abc, Associated Press, Cbs, Cnn, Cnn

  about the evolution of media and reporting from the invention of radio to our current circumstances. It's the title of Driscoll's work, "Atlas Mugged: How a Gang of Scrappy, Individual Bloggers Broke the Stranglehold of the Mainstream Media," that misses the mark a bit. Ed has the "stranglehold" part nailed: By the early

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• Surprise! New MTV Social-Activism Site Leans Left

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Sexuality, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Kanye West, Online Media, Facebook, Mtv Com

  Viacom-owned MTV has recently rolled out "Think MTV," a new community interaction site oriented toward student activism. Imagine "Facebook" with a social-activist theme. Exploring the site quickly reveals that MTV's notion of social activism has a decided liberal tint. The home page lists a dozen major areas for potential

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• 'Bloom County' Lampoons Censorship Weeks After WaPo Withheld 'Opus'

  Published: September 28, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: Censorship, Double Standards, Media Bias Debate, Moderate Islam, Radical Islam, Religion, Berkeley Breathed, Media Business, Media Scandals, Online Media, Washington Post, Yahoo

  sensitivities of the liberal media even back in the 80's. Wouldn't it be great if someone could stand up to this liberal double standard when it comes to material deemed to insensitive to Islamists, and tell those sensitive readers to do exactly what the character states in this strip? Of course, had that Opus strip simply offended

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• Media Matters Turns From O'Reilly to Taking Rush Out of Context

  Published: September 28, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Online Media, Radio, Youtube, Journalistic Issues, Video

  has an excellent run-down of Media Matters (MMA) latest attack on another of its favorite bogeymen: Rush Limbaugh. Earlier this week it was sharpening its knives over Bill O'Reilly:  Not content to wait until Bill O'Reilly's hoped- for demise, the George Soros- funded Media Matters / mainstream media smear machine has added a second target:

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• Cox & Forkum Say Goodbye

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:08 am

  Tags: Cartoonists, Allen Forkum, Cox Amp Amp Forkum, John Cox, Online Media, Humor

  Sad news. Cox & Forkum are no more. John Cox and Allen Forkum hung up their spurs and turned their horses out to pasture. Through their editorial cartoons, John Cox and Allen Forkum poked fun at liberal silliness and conservative silliness, but today's drawing, called "Final Bow," was their last regular edition. Since

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