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Chapter Six: The
Media
Web Links
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edition)
p. 167 - Do you have time to read 1,000 newspapers? You
can start here at the Edit
or and Publisher web site, which also directs you to
magazines and even to broadcast media.
p. 169 - If you are unfamiliar with news reports on
National Public Radio,
you have been missing some of the best, most frequent
reporting over the airwaves. Use the Internet to listen
to news on public radio. Of special interest are the
online versions of Morning
Edition, Talk
of the Nation, and All
Things Considered are updated daily. Check it
out.
p. 172 - Matt Drudge operates The
Drudge Report on the Internet, a political gossip
site that invites readers to "CALL IN A STORY TO THE
DRUDGE REPORT, Confidentiality guaranteed!" Aidd by such
tips and items contained in the more than 35 news
outlets, Matt Drudge disseminates much hearsay and breaks
an occasional sensational story then picked up by the
media. Drudge claims to get about a million hits a day on
his site. If true, that's a larger audience than sales of
the Washington Post.
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ABC
News Reports This site offers some text files to
view, but most of its news reports require the Real Audio
player to be installed on your computer so that you can
listen to contemporary news, old news, Peter Jennings'
Commentary, and more. The software can be downloaded for
installation.
CBS News Up to the Minute
"Up to the Minute is CBS News at night. Watch us on your
local CBS television station, but come here for video,
audio and text rom the program "
All
Politics Two media powers, CNN television and Time
magazine, combined forces to create the "All Politics"
Internet site.
MSNBCThis
site joins the journalists at NBC news with the computer
talent at Microsoft. One innovative item for the 1996
campaign was its "Vox Box," which posed questions
("Disgusted with politics as usual?") and selected
viewers' responses to report.
PBS Online This page
provides a gateway to various PBS progams, including the
commercial-free "NewsHour, with Jim Lehrer," which is
clearly the most comprehensive television evening news
program. The Internet version is at Online
NewsHour.
USA TODAY The home
page of this popular national newspaper guides you to
electronic versions of the paper's regular sections on
news, opinion, features, sports, and so on.
Wall Street
Journal Interactive The Journal is the nation's
largest selling newspaper. Unlike the other sites
mentioned here, this one requires a subscription, but it
does offer a two week trial. If you like the Journal, you
may want to subscribe.
New York Times on the
Web Many people consider the Times to be as liberal
as the Wall Street Journal is conservative. You don't
have to subscribe, but you do have to register to use
this service. Articles are only available on the day of
publication; users have to pay for items in previous
issues.
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