By: E&P Staff In today's links, Hillary Clinton defends her warming relationship with Rupert Murdoch, the lameness of the 'NYT' public editor, and Jonathan Alter says that even Oprah couldn't help Bush as a press secretary.
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Hillary: Murdoch Is My ConstituentHillary Clinton defended her warming relationship on Tuesday with Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul. Commenting on Mr Murdoch's decision to host a fundraiser for her Senate-election campaign, Mrs Clinton said: "He's my constituent and I'm very gratified that he thinks I'm doing a good job."
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The Perfect News Site, 2016Readers want more context and background included in news reporting. They want new ways to receive their news, on next-generation handheld devices, for instance, rather than simply on a Web page. They want fewer ads -- especially the kind that animate or show up in popup windows. It turns out that they also want more-telegenic news reporters.
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Critic: Calame a Pedant"The cop who holds the precinct record for writing the most jaywalking citations. The high school assistant principal in charge of detention hall. The fusty badminton line judge. New York Times Public Editor Byron Calame tips his hat to tireless pedants everywhere on alternate Sundays when he publishes his column," writes Jack Shafer. "Calame possesses a mandate that would allow him to boil the journalistic ocean if he so desired, but he usually elects to merely warm a teapot for his readers and pour out thimblefuls of weak chamomile."
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What Bush and Tony Snow Could Learn From FDR"It's not about the mike. As Tony Snow takes over as presidential press secretary, you?ll likely see a spate of stories about how Snow?s low-key charm is working to improve White House media operations," writes Jonathan Alter. "But the honeymoon will last only a couple of weeks at most. That's not Snow?s fault: President Bush could have Oprah as his mouthpiece and it still wouldn't change his coverage. The only way to do that is to take a leaf from the greatest communicator of all -- Franklin D. Roosevelt."
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Bizarre Feud Erupts Between Current and Former Calif. Newspaper EditorsThe nasty public feud between the past and present owners of The Point Reyes Light -- David Mitchell, a gangly, corncob-pipe-smoking 62-year-old who looks like an aging folk singer and won a Pulitzer Prize, and Robert Plotkin, a 36-year-old onetime prosecutor with a GQ fashion sense who describes himself as "a man of action, like James Bond" -- has captivated the 14 far-flung villages here on the western tilt of Marin County.
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Columbia J-Prof Teaches Journalism to InmatesJournalism-school professor and dean Bruce Porter teaches prisoners at a medium-security facility in upsate New York and learns as much as he imparts.
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'Globe' a 'Diminished Institution'?"The strategic effect of New York Times Co. ownership, and perhaps the intent, has been to push the Globe down-market toward extinguishing the Herald, not to charge up the Globe with Times standards or style," writes Christopher Lydon.
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Seattle's Newspaper War Rages OnSeattle Times employees, who outnumber P-I guild members and forced the issue, figure closure of one newspaper is inevitable, and they want the likely survivor, the locally controlled Times, to stay out of deep-pocketed Hearst's hands. Meanwhile, new circulation figures show neither paper to be a robust survivor in the Web age.
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Former L.A. Journo Michael Qualls DiesQualls spent 20 years in journalism, including more than a decade in Los Angeles beginning in 1974. At the now-defunct Herald Examiner, he was an assistant city editor and political editor before becoming managing editor of City News Service.
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