<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Media Notes</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/medianotes?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><description>Media Notes</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Throw Another Blog On the Fire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42772-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42772-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Billionaires can be bloggers, too.<br>And if you're Mark Cuban, high-tech entrepreneur and basketball team owner, blogging enables you to communicate directly with the fans  --  and slap some sportswriters with such labels as "the new moron in town."]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[End of an Era]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24015-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24015-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The careers of Ted Koppel, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw are intertwined with the narrative of American history.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubts Raised On Schiavo Memo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11250-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11250-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bloggers are raising questions about a strategy memo, first reported by ABC News and The Washington Post, that cast the Schiavo right-to-die case as a partisan opportunity for Republicans to stick it to Democrats.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS News's Unstuffed Shirt]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5807-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5807-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the interim replacement for Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer has managed to change the rigid formula of the nightly newscast.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USA Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52464-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52464-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a post-Jack Kelley world, USA Today editor Ken Paulson stresses communication as a check on potential missteps.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion, Study Finds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32631-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32631-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For One Ed, Strong Op]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12722-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12722-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Commentator  Susan Estrich says she's just trying to get more columns by women into the Los Angeles Times.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hillary Fever? Might Be Something We Eight.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58937-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58937-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three years and eight months before the next presidential election, the Hillary buzz is growing louder.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forecast: Overheated, Gusty and Increasingly Bloggy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40749-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40749-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Could this be the perfect storm of bad news for the news media?]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Column With Support At Each End]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22088-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22088-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The  issue of pundit payola, it seems, is not limited to inside the Beltway.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Perspectives With Tunnel Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3418-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3418-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Armstrong Williams appears on television, he is predictably pro-Bush. And he was that way well before he got a $241,000 contract from the Bush administration to promote the president's education policy.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Spinners, Casting Their Versions of the Vote in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52895-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52895-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Less than an hour before the Iraqi polls closed, correspondent Jim Maceda was reporting on MSNBC that some voters were so afraid that they asked if they could sneak in the back of a polling station. At almost the same moment, CNN's Jane Arraf was interviewing a man who was proud to talk about his vote in front of a camera.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting More NBC in MSNBC]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50185-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50185-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Rick Kaplan was named president of MSNBC a year ago, many analysts expected the towering television executive to start throwing his weight around.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Osama Who? When No News Is 'Bad News']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31306-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31306-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In late 1996, veteran CBS foreign correspondent Tom Fenton pitched his network on a plan to use Saudi connections to land an interview with Osama bin Laden.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcast All Over]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14799-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14799-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Tavis Smiley walked away from his National Public Radio show last month, he did not go quietly.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Voice From Above, And to the Left]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61992-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61992-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most widely carried liberal on radio is a "prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative" who broadcasts from the unlikely locale of North Dakota.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi Bloggers, In the News And Critiquing It]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12395-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12395-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Omar Fadhil says the media are painting far too dark a portrait of Iraq.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Just In, From The Guy Next Door]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60249-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60249-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mark Potts, a self-described "recovering journalist," says with a bit of understatement: "It isn't Woodward and Bernstein stuff."]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At NPR, Ombudded With the Troops]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3065-2004Nov21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3065-2004Nov21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/medianotes</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jeffrey Dvorkin says National Public Radio reported the charges and countercharges about the Iraq war without verifying them.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item></channel></rss>