| How Does The Press Fare In The Polls?
Presumably, most voters follow the campaign vicariously, getting information second hand from television, radio, newspapers and magazines, and the internet. What do they hear?
We know that Americans are more likely to say that the various media are liberal than to say they are conservative. In September, in a Gallup Poll, 45 percent said the media was too liberal while just 18 percent said it was too conservative. Only 35 percent said it was just about right. But voters tend to judge media coverage according to their own political beliefs. Conservatives are more likely to see liberal bias than liberals are.
When it comes to looking at the way the media cover individuals, Republicans and Democrats usually see things differently. In 2006, 61 percent of Republicans said the news media was harder on President George W.
Clinton a no-show again
In a telephone interview with WEAU-TV on its 10 p.m. newscast, Clinton apologized for the cancellation and thanked supporters for their hard work. "I think everyone understood the weather has been rough for a couple of days. But I know people in Wisconsin understand, but I think the voters in Eau Claire and western Wisconsin are looking at the long term," she said when asked if the cancellations would hurt her in the primary election.Candice Novitzke can be reached at candice.novitzke@lee.net.Mark Gunderman can be reached at mark.gunderman@lee.net. .
What to Watch: Fast Haulin' and B-Ballin'
Thinking back, oh, let's say about 30 years ago to 1978, both the NBA and NASCAR were entering their modern era with events and personalities that stretched fandom of those sports to new levels. Both sports shared a common problem. Live TV broadcasts. NASCAR events were an ABC "Wide World of Sports" staple but shown on tape-delay. CBS had the NBA rights but small-market teams and tape-delayed playoff games — sometimes shown after midnight here in San Antonio — generated disastrously low ratings. Fast-forward to 2008 — the NBA has games on national TV seven days a week, its own TV channel and billion-dollar price tags for tradition & digital broadcast rights. NASCAR's fortunes ballooned into the billion-dollar stratosphere after its landmark 2001 TV deal to become the second-most watched sports on TV.
Tell Me About It | Is boyfriend embarrassed about her?
Question: I've been going out with my boyfriend for a year. We are just out of college, and this is the first real relationship for both of us. He initiated it after being friends for a year. I really like him, and most everything is going well. The only issue is that he avoids introducing me to his friends. I don't think they know about me. (I asked him, and he said, "They probably assume so.") Everything we do is at my place. He is not very social in general and doesn't really hang out with other people much, but after a year, they should at least know about me. I asked him why he never invites me to hang out with them, and he said that it would probably be very awkward and I would hate them, but that if I really wanted to meet them, he would invite me. It almost seems like he is embarrassed by me.
Third seed Peer ousted in Memphis tennis
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- Teenager Olga Govortsova of Belarus toppled third-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel 6-3, 3-6 and 6-4 at the Memphis Championship on Friday to reach her first WTA final. The 19-year-old fifth seed beat four double faults through the tight semifinal which lasted for almost two hours. "It feels great, getting into my first final," Govortsova said," I am playing really well now and in the third set I wanted to win so badly." Peer, a winner of three WTA singles titles and ranked 18th, said that "it was a good match and it could have gone either way. I had some chances in the first set and I didn't make them." Govortsova, who clinched two ITF crowns last year in her first full season on the WTA Tour, will meet the winner between American Lindsay Davenport and New Zealand qualifier Marina Erakovic in the final.
All for one - more trips for singletons
Tell a hotel you're a single traveller and you run the risk of spending your stay in the equivalent of the broom cupboard. Fortunately, Exclusive Escapes has recognised that solo travellers want luxury too. This year, they are banishing single supplements at several of their boutique hotels in Turkey and Cephalonia, and on all group learning holidays (vegetarian cooking, yoga and pilates, and creative writing). Beyaz Yunus, Faralya is a stylish hideaway, with safari-style rooms in a forest clearing 14km from Olu Deniz, on a mountainside set back from a dramatic coastal road following the Lycian Way. Trek, swim from private coves or try sea-kayaking. From £500pp per week B&B, including flights. · 020-8605 3500, exclusiveescapes.co.uk. Singles' chalet in the French Alps If you can't afford to hire Richard Branson's new £35,000-a-week ski lodge, try Cold Fusions Chalets' flagship chalet in Chamonix, which comes with an outdoor hot tub, a large Mont Blanc-facing terrace, and its own chef.
Comments on ‘Hollywood writers abandon Hollywood for web’
The WGA, UAW and all the other unions are a joke. It always amazes me that the 'land of the free' is so beholden to the concept of the unions and union workers, given what a 'socialist' concept it is and how they always hated the ideas of communism & socialism so much. Not that the unions are particularly socialist, more like big corporations themselves. I still can't really understand how the unions are allowed to survive, in particular the concept that if you're not a member you shouldn't be able to do particular jobs, or that you aren't such a good worker just because you don't pay union dues. Though at the current rate they'll self-destruct; it's not so tempting being in the union when it results in being unemployed. .
History lurks in old Gazette building
Rummaging through the dusky basement of the former Arkansas Gazette building over the past three weeks, Kate Askew busily sorted through the clutter to set aside pieces of Arkansas history from the mundane. "Every day is Christmas," Askew said one day of the more interesting items in the building's basement at Third and Louisiana streets in downtown Little Rock. "We keep finding more stuff.” There were boxes of negatives that include shots of the 1957 Little Rock school desegregation crisis and of a young Bill Clinton at Boys State in 1963. A handful of the newspaper's bank account passbooks from the early 1900 s were also found. Pieces of the newspaper's old-time pressroom lay about amid such things as bomb-shelter medical supplies, a tapedtogether listing of Gazette Publishing Co.
Moore, not free throws, doom Illini
I would have been calling for Bruce's departure along with many were it not for the fact that we (a)lost Gordon and Jamar..imagine this team if they were on board. (b)the fact that we have a nice group of studs coming in… All this constant carping about the state of the program and how it has gotten worse is a waste of time. Weber isn't going anywhere and the future looks bright. I am not sure there are many coaches who could win with this collection of players. They have too many faults to be more than what they are. .
Chris Cagle Talks Candidly About Life and Music
Chris Cagle is a blunt instrument. He doesn't hedge his comments, whether he's talking about the disappointing sales of his last album or recalling a humiliating betrayal by an ex-girlfriend. He's a journalist's joy and a media trainer's nightmare.
For his new and fourth album, My Life's Been a Country Song, the singer enlisted industry veteran Scott Hendricks as his co-producer. Hendricks is also the man who signed Cagle to his first record deal at the Virgin Nashville label. Robert Wright had co-produced Cagle's earlier efforts.
"There was no discontent with anybody," Cagle asserts. "It was just time to make a change. When you make three records in a row, the first two go gold -- and the third one doesn't -- it's time to figure something else."
This is also the first album on which Cagle has none of his own songs, a remarkable departure from form.
Jay-Z Sued for Slavery - A Top Story This Week
Jay-Z Sued for Slavery was a top story on Wednesday. Here it is again: (antiMusic) In today's edition of frivolous lawsuits exposed we see Jay-Z tied up in litigation claiming he somehow profited from slavery. Can we hear a chorus cry of "tort reform now!"? Our good friends at Hecklerspray have more info on this: Think you know Jay-Z? Well, you don't, so think again. Unless you already think that he is partially to blame for the enslavement of thousands of Africans in pre-1807 Britain, in which case you don't need to think again, because you're absolutely right, according to Brooklyn Activist Clive Campbell and Da Black Defense League. They have filed a $5 billion dollar lawsuit against Jay-Z, along with Barclay's Bank and Forest City Ratner, a real estate developer, because they have: "profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth." You see, according to recent findings from studies released on the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade by The Restitution Study Group, Barclay's Bank (then Heywood's Bank) was involved in over 120 slave trading missions and allegedly enslaved more than 38,000 Africans, with Jay-Z and Ratner apparently connected through their ties with Barclay's Bank in a $4 billion Atlantic Yards project taking place in Brooklyn, which plans to build a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets (partially owned by Jay-Z), over 6,000 new apartments, offices and a hotel.
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