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October 8, 2007 at 08:33:09

How the New Media Works

by Cenk Uygur Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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That's why Charlie Gibson is the leading anchor on television and Katie Couric is in last place. Look at the demographics. Of course, the much, much older audience for broadcast news is going to prefer someone like themselves (sorry Charlie) and not some whipper-snapper like Couric telling them about light and happy news. The old guys will do better in this antiquated format all the way until they run out of audience. No young anchor is going to magically bring in a younger audience when that audience finds the program itself irrelevant.

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Editor's Note: Air America would like you to know that my dad also listens to my show, and finds it brilliant. Though I do get the occasional, "You should be more funny like that Colbert guy. He is very talented." Thanks, Dad. I appreciate that.

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Cenk Uygur is co-host of The Young Turks, the new morning show for Air America Radio, 6-9AM ET. The Young Turks was the first liberal radio show to air nationwide. The program was also the first original talk show for Sirius Satellite Radio. With the move to Air America, the program can now be heard on XM Satellite Radio, as well as, your local The Young Turks is also the first live, internet TV show. The show can be seen 24 hours a day on www.theyoungturks.com.

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Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues."It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Russ WellenRuss Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues."It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Still a Lot of Luddites. . .

. . . out there who want no truck with this Innernet thing.

Also, some people, of any age, like to see the news footage, especially since a lot of video on the Web doesn't work, is fuzzy, etc.

True, Williams, as likeable as he is, is useless. Along, of course, with Gibson and Couric.

Cenk feels the same way about TV national news as I do about magazines. Who would pay actual dollars for a handful of articles when, except for those in the magazine that the magazine's Websites withholds, you can get more articles than you can possibly read free on the Web?

by Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments) on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 12:43:15 PM

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Rob KallRob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com and is a columnist with Northstarwriters.com. He is a frequent Speaker on Politics, Impeachment, The art, science and power of story, heroes and the hero's journey, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. He is a campaign consultant specializing in tapping the power of stories for issue positioning, stump s...

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You can't read....

articles on the internet on the hopper. I put my magazines there. (Were huamns able to operate their bowels without reading, at one point in human evolution? I guess so.)

by Rob Kall (867 articles, 3998 quicklinks, 344 diaries, 1839 comments) on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:18:10 AM

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I want to restore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to what the founders of this nation intended to protect us from.

I was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y. and I now reside in Florida. I am tired of the media being manipulated by Faux News and right wing propaganda that leading our Democracy i...

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mainstream media news

CNN and Faux News are just right wing opinion outlets anymore.

I still can’t believe that anyone listens to Rush the college flunkout who got a 4F classification for having a pimple on his ass.

MSNBC has been my news and entertainment for the last year after I watch Keith skewer Mr. Bush. I still watch NBC at 6:30 just to get their spin.

My day job allows me to surf the web and write op eds for my blog and now for OpEd News. Unfortunately they block sites labeled entertainment and politics but I still get many political sites like truthout and Common Dreams aren’t blocked.

Your show is blocked but I will give it a listen from home.

by Michael Chavers (50 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 180 comments) on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 1:49:05 PM

'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Thomas Jefferson 1787
Munich'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Thomas Jefferson 1787

Re: How the New Media Works

Mr. Uygur:

I appreciate all the work you do for the Blogisphere and the Young Turks. However, it appalls me a great deal to hear you say that Brian Williams, this monotone cadenced corporate media shill who appears on our television screens each evening to spoon feed the American people half-truths a "lovely guy." Brian Williams is indeed "smooth," and I would guess if you were receiving the millions he receives annually to spew feckless platitudes, you would also be smooth.

Lest we forget that William's employer is none other than General Electric (we bring good wars to life) who contributed a nice bit of change to this Bush-Cheney junta! Brian Williams might be a nice guy, but he's also not one who'll go against the (GE) grain. Williams, along with the rest of these corporate reticent news anchors ought to be run out of town on a rail for impersonating journalists! These are the very same people who helped sell this horrific and illegal war in Iraq to the American people.

Listen as Williams cowers, while our bellicose usurper "n" chief blathers on with yet more of his vitriolic mendacity. Brian Williams is pathetic!

Bush Walks Louisiana Streets With Foot in Mouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNIOmbm3KYg

by Munich (0 articles, 74 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 916 comments) on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 9:52:26 PM

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news what news do you mean Infotainment programs

Boy has Yahoo got it wrong in Australia. Here it aligns its self with our Channel 7 network in Aust terms it’s the most salacious of all the frontline ‘news media’.

The media in Australia is more Infotainment that news. Why else are the female anchors all young and pretty? Does that make the news better? No! just more will watch. The more that watch…the more they can charge for advertising=.more profit =more influence they have to influence laws that will effect more profits.

As the American Terrorist Advisor put it “Don’t be afraid of what’s on TV. If its on TV news by definition it’s novel new, rare, unusual. Be afraid of what is NOT on the news. For example how many 9/11 was there? How many killed? When was the last lime you saw an article on the 40000 people killed each year on US roads or 25000 that die of Prostate cancer each year, or the 100000's of Americans that die from smoking related diseases…….On Iraq when was the last time you saw a new article on the 1000000 civilians Iraqi killed?....That has a greater effect on security than 3000+ soldiers tragic though it is.”

by Andris (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 531 comments) on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 9:00:15 PM