Across The Media Universe: Keystrokes And He's Out Edition

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Across The Media Universe

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Foul Ball: Blogging a baseball game, it turns out, can get you kicked out of the press box. By the NCAA's logic you're providing a "live representation of the game," as a Courier-Journal sports reporter learned when he got the boot at a University of Louisville/ Oklahoma State contest. Says Courier-Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker: "Once a player hits a home run, that's a fact. It's on TV. Everybody sees it. (The NCAA) can't copyright that fact. The blog wasn't a simulcast or a recreation of the game. It was an analysis."

Hartman Goes To Beeb: Former "Evening News" Executive Producer Rome Hartman was supposed to take another job with CBS News after he was moved off the show in March. Instead he's heading over to the BBC to launch a new broadcast in America. "CBS and the other networks have very talented correspondents overseas," he tells Howard Kurtz. "But there's no way any American broadcast network can or will cover the world the way BBC does. They just don't have the capacity. It's a frustration for people at every network." Speaking of the "Evening News," Broadcasting and Cable notes that CBS is launching an "aggressive promotional campaign" this summer to pump up the show's ratings.

Reasons To Be Depressed: "More people agree that Bill O'Reilly is a better source of political information than ABC News, according to a JWT survey conducted on behalf of Adweek." There are those who hated the Soprano's finale. And we're now into our second week of this.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by cktirumalai June 12, 2007 12:18 PM EDT: The BBC has an international audience and therefore covers news from many geographical areas. Because the BBC covers international news it has a world-wide audience. Both statements are true, as is the fact that Britain once had a far-flung Empire. And the BBC has a domestic network as well as an international one, which differ in style, emphasis, and content.; Reply to this comment


by ronmwanga June 12, 2007 2:38 AM EDT: Glad to see PE has evolved to cover the post-CBS goings on of Rome Hartman. It does you credit and, to an outsider, it shows a welcome lightening of mood and confidence. In the beginning of PE, as you guys were piecing things together, this would not have appeared. Dare I say: PE is chilling out a bit? And, re: Sunday's Felling-Howard Kurtz-Hilton (surprisingly not mentioned today on PE); there's nothing wrong with a touch of Paris in the night. A little lightness offsets nicely the heavy doses of taxing ethical considering that Public Eye asks us to do daily.; Reply to this comment