Monday, September 14, 2009

Yahoo Highlights the Important Stories PT 2

Bocephus. Oprah. Ichiro Suzuki. "Basketball Dairies."

Plus, researchers are tracking 3,000 pieces of Seattle trash! (It's unclear if the Sunday morning talking head shows are included in that figure.)



Oh. According to USAToday's Crowd-Size Estimator, 47 million marched on Washington D.C. this past weekend (but only if you include ten million illegal aliens.)

Meanwhile, fewer see accuracy or fairness in the Press.

"Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade."

The NY Times & the WSJ have the lowest favorable ratings, while CNN & FOX have the highest favorable ratings. Television was the dominant source for nat'l & int'l news, but radio was the last place source for both categories. The internet & newspapers split the middle ground.

And last, but not least, the lovely 'boob czar' finally makes her appearance during the March on Washington. (lots n lots of pictures that are safe for work)