tech

Newsweek's Isikoff on Matt Drudge: 'Much Less of a Factor than He Was Five Years Ago'

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:40:54 +0000

Jeff Poor

It’s been 10 years since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But the way it broke changed the way the news cycle functioned and has had a profound impact on the business of media.

In 1998, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff's Lewinsky story was leaked to Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report. The story took off from Drudge and the rest is history. But a decade later, Isikoff said he doesn’t think Drudge is the player he once was.

NBC Pumps Up Fears of another Dot-Com Bubble

admin — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:24:59 +0000

Ken Shepherd

Having huffed and puffed and still not blown the housing market down, NBC News is now raising fears of another bubble. A tech bubble.

With Internet company Google’s (NASD: GOOG) recent purchase of YouTube for $1.6 billion, NBC’s “Today” show sought to warn of a repeat of the Clinton era dot-com bubble history repeating.

More Hot Air

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:03:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

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Trade Secrets

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:44:00 +0000

Charles Simpson

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CNN promotes “Lou Dobbs Tonight” as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t explain that Dobbs defines those words his own unique way. “News” is often economic distortions presented as fact. “Debate” doesn’t always mean that both sides get to comment. And, for Dobbs, opinion is something injected into every aspect of a news report.