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April 15, 2008 News and Trends
Real-Time Local News Now Blankets Michigan
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 -- There is always something happening in Michigan and once-a-day news can't cover it all. The days of waiting for traffic or weather reports or the latest...
World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...
Good news on Social Security? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PDT
Americans recently received some good news regarding Social Security. While the retirement and disability program still faces significant funding shortfalls, the annual trustees report released last month showed improved long-term finances. But there is more "good" news, this time for workers who receive an annual benefit statement from the Social Security Administration.
Photos: A high-tech museum for news junkies (CNET)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:02 PDT
The Freedom Forum's museum of news shows how technology has influenced news-gathering techniques over the decades.
BBC news shows get rebrand (BBC News)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:01:07 PDT
The BBC unveils revamped graphics for its TV news bulletins and is renaming BBC News 24 and BBC World.
Katie Couric, CBS and the Future of Network News (NPR)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:14:05 PDT
Katie Couric's early exit from CBS News appears almost imminent, but her departure signals more than a personal failure to win ratings; it's the unraveling of the idea that there will always be a "big three" in network news.
HD Radio Going Portable
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:41 PDT
I stopped by the NAB Show 2008 today – well in the virtual sense, if I’d been in Las Vegas I think the poker tables would have attracted me more than mingling with the National Association of Broadcasters. Still, I was interested to see if any interesting news had popped up and saw that the HD Radio revolution is still going strong.
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 -- There is always something happening in Michigan and once-a-day news can't cover it all. The days of waiting for traffic or weather reports or the latest...
World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...
Good news on Social Security? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PDT
Americans recently received some good news regarding Social Security. While the retirement and disability program still faces significant funding shortfalls, the annual trustees report released last month showed improved long-term finances. But there is more "good" news, this time for workers who receive an annual benefit statement from the Social Security Administration.
Photos: A high-tech museum for news junkies (CNET)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:02 PDT
The Freedom Forum's museum of news shows how technology has influenced news-gathering techniques over the decades.
BBC news shows get rebrand (BBC News)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:01:07 PDT
The BBC unveils revamped graphics for its TV news bulletins and is renaming BBC News 24 and BBC World.
Katie Couric, CBS and the Future of Network News (NPR)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:14:05 PDT
Katie Couric's early exit from CBS News appears almost imminent, but her departure signals more than a personal failure to win ratings; it's the unraveling of the idea that there will always be a "big three" in network news.
HD Radio Going Portable
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:41 PDT
I stopped by the NAB Show 2008 today – well in the virtual sense, if I’d been in Las Vegas I think the poker tables would have attracted me more than mingling with the National Association of Broadcasters. Still, I was interested to see if any interesting news had popped up and saw that the HD Radio revolution is still going strong.
Last night's CMT Music Awards�the country-music television network's version of its sister network MTV's Video Music Awards�veered into "a little more than slightly excruciating" territory when co-host Miley Cyrus tripped her way through a Taylor Swift intro in which she talked about texting the glittery-guitar-hoisting country protege incessantly, an endless setup to what would be one of many "ha ha, Dad, I'm paying your bills!" zingers that the Hannah Montana star sent in the direction of her father/svengali, "Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus. (Yes, he performed the line dance that sent him and his mullet to stardom back in 1992, the same year his cash cow was sired.) The opening skit, in which Trace Adkins and his really greasy mop tried currying favor with everyone from Donald Trump to the three remaining Presidential candidates in order to get passes to the show, also mined that route; its final punchline was that Billy Ray was making extra scratch by scalping tickets, which were of course hot properties because of his daughter's presence. That girl is going to be so messed up in three years. Full list of winners�which includes three awards for Kellie Pickler, two for Taylor Swift, and one for that super-creepy video where Jon Bon Jovi and Leann Rimes make out�after the jump.
