Media Realizes it Sucks, Sorta
It looks like some other people, some of them from mainstream media outlets, noticed the lopsided coverage of the White House press correspondents’ dinner. Since I wrote my previous post, a number of other bloggers, followed by a number of web sites associated with newspapers and TV shows (as well as major online magazines like Salon) have written on the Colbert speech, linked to video, or included full or partial transcripts of his address.
The general tenor of these articles has been to bracket attention given to Colbert’s speech with the observation that the media largely ignored it at first, but was cowed into acknowledging what happened by the blogosphere. In printing these reports the media is waking up, but it’s really just blinking its eyes and yawning once before falling asleep again. These articles are mostly commentary and opnion, not proper news articles like those devoted to the Bush/Bridges speech. Furthermore, many of the Colbert articles appear in the blogs associated with mainstream news outlets, so they may not have made it into print.
A Selection
- Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media’s Power to Choose the News (Salon.com Daou Report blog)
- Chris Durang: Ignoring Colbert, Part Two (Huffington Post)
- All kidding aside (Washington Post White House Briefing blog)
- Colbert Still Digesting Correspondents’ Reactions (MSNBC)
- Comedy in the Eye of the Beholder (UK Guardian News Blog)
- Why Colbert Matters (Salon.com War Room blog)
Also, I didn’t link the Moderate Voice’s review of Colbert’s speech from my previous post because I was focusing on major news outlets. It’s just a blog, but it was pretty much led the pack on reporting the details of Colbert’s speech and the media’s response.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am
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