News and Media

Coverage of Peyton Manning’s injury shows media, money muddle sports news

4 Feb 2012

Peyton Manning illustrated last week why football is like anything else in entertainment. He has a future that is essentially unknowable, but storms of speculation swirled around him in a way that was curious because we’re not so good in sports at accepting “I don’t know� as a correct answer to a question, especially not in the soap-opera-for-males world of sports. This led to Yahoo! reporting ...

Chris Matthews: ‘I speak for the media generally — left, right and center’

4 Feb 2012

On MSNBC’s Saturday night coverage of the returns from the Nevada caucuses, “Hardball� host Chris Matthews made a proclamation — that he speaks on behalf of the media from all realms of the ideological spectrum and wanted to know from Newt Gingrich supporter Sue Lowden how Gingrich can maintain a high level of media exposure.

Todai calls for change, but will others follow?

4 Feb 2012

Spring approaches, and the thoughts of the media, which like nothing better than the warm comfort of a predictable news cycle, turn to education. Students are wrapping up the scholastic year and some are taking tests that will determine their lives. Last year, reporters got a bonus; That story about the young man who, while taking the entrance exam for Kyoto University, solicited answers via his ...