“When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.” KindAmericaCultureHusbandNewsSmartInternationalI've LearnedMy HusbandCoverageReally SmartNews CoverageFrench Culture Author:Kim Raver
“As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage - people will watch you if they see themselves in what you report. It doesn't hurt if the people doing the reporting look like them, too.” PeopleIfsLooksGrowthHurtWatchesSawsNewsFundamentalsAfrican AmericanReportsCoverageCnnNews Coverage Book:Latino in America Source: Latino in America
“The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.” StoriesAmericaGoneFiveNewsPressesCriticalJournalismJournalistCorporationsGiantsCoveringCoverageInvestigative JournalismNews Coverage Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.” KnowsCompanyKnow HowMediaNewsRaisedCorruptionCandidatesTiedCoverageQuid Pro QuoNews Coverage Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.” IfsWarSometimesBigsSeemsMightConflictNewsOddAngleCoverageNews Coverage Author:William Finnegan
“The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.” QualityMediaNewsGiantsPrintCoverageNews CoveragePrint Media Author:F. Lee Bailey
“As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.” WantKindPoliticalNewsAccessCampaignsPresidentialCandidatesDelusionCoveringCoverageNothing NewBargainingPresidential CampaignNews Coverage Author:Dan Rather