TV Coverage

Why aren't our Blogs noticed by Mean stream media mavins?

I know that when a blog addy is passed around it attracts all the nastiness of the kosacks, badacks and crap peddlers but shouldn’t our opinions on Hillary and BO be referenced once in awhile on the big old box - TV?

Once again recently, CNN guy stood up with big screen where he could show examples of what “THE BLOGS” were saying about Hillary.

And, surprise, surprise. There was no blog that had anything positive to report. Everyone on the blogisphere was cursing her for trying to get BO assinated.

Now we know that isn’t true and we know they know it and we know they have seen Kennedy Jr’s confirmation of what Hillary said. And we know that the interviewer has published his belief that what Hillary said was concerning June and the late Primaries of the past.  Read more 

TV to Voters: Fuggetabboudit

This doesn’t suprise me at all.

•The average length of a single story devoted primarily to elections was roughly
76 seconds. By contrast, a similar national study conducted by the UW
NewsLab during the 2002 mid-term election found the average story ran 89
seconds.

• 41 percent of the election stories were aired in the final week before Election
Day.

• There was a political ad “echo effect:” Over one in ten election stories
mentioned, pictured, or focused on a specific campaign ad.  Read more