Columbia Journalism Review redefines MSM, Corporate media

[Cocoa]

http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/001331.asp

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So is the very term MSM -- meant to describe dinosaurs -- a dinosaur itself?

Not at all. In a nation in which political and cultural conservatives occupy the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and most statehouses, MSM strikes us as a dead-on description of a more recent phenomenon: The avidly partisan right wing press, represented in the swelling blogosphere, the small magazine world and, perhaps most importantly, cable television.

So here's our new glossary:

Corporate Media: The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Network, and any other entity owned by Dow Jones, Gannett, Scripps-Howard, Newhouse, Tribune Co., Cox Newspapers, News Corp., Knight-Ridder, Time Warner, Viacom or Disney. (Apologies, CEOs, if we left anyone out.)

MSM: See above. The newly triumphant, and quite giddy about it.

Loyal Opposition: Any newspaper, blog, Web site, small magazine or other news/opinion outlet that tries to make its way in that embattled spectrum that ranges from slightly-to-the-right-of-center to way-left-of-center.

[Ivan Sputnik]

1. If MSM = MainStream Media

then I don't see how the "corporate media" could be in a separate category. Aren't "corporate" and "mainstream" virtually the same thing in this society? And how can blogs (at this early stage of their existence) be considered part of the MSM?

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2. Good to see the CJR take note of this.

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