Media Clips

San Antonio Express-News pays its editor an amount "in the millions"to hire new reporters, open new bureaus, and try to improve its notoriously mediocre coverage.

"...What was the offer? Something unheard-of in today's media world: more money for staff. More pay, more reporters,..."

March 24, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Texas Triangle fires its longtime co-editor, spurring controversy over the direction of its coverage.

"...earliest issues, especially regarding design and retaining talent (see "Media Clips," April 4, 1997). Since then, the design has..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The Internet offers new opportunities for newspapers to expand their coverage, but so far, Texas dailies have yet to heed the call.

"...it won't be a great democratizing force leveling the media field. For the most part, the major, most-visited sites..."

April 21, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

After working out some of its kinks, Austin's all-news cable channel, News 8, earns a high "C" for constant availability, lengthy news segments, and decent-quality programming.

"...is also well-documented in studies by the Rocky Mountain Media Watch (RMMW), the Denver-based media activist group (see their..."

Jan. 21, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The Latino USA radio program is building a national name for itself out of its KUT headquarters in Austin.

"...that KUT-based radio program onto the front burner of "Media Clips." But that's not the real story -- what's..."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The Austin American-Statesman accuses the Texas Department of Public Safety of witholding public information on the Waco siege; KOOP founder Jim Ellinger gets shut out of the radio station's building.

"...The Statesman interpreted "promptly" to mean "immediately" -- Sept. 10 -- asserting that the 10-day waiting..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

"...Fighting was the name of the game in Austin media this year. Levy vs. Oppel, liberals vs. Sammy &..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Southwestern Bell and Time Warner push Jump.Net and other small Internet service providers out of the Austin market with anti-competitive pricing schemes.

"...that deregulating the industry would be good for competition. Media activists argued otherwise, predicting an Orwellian future where fewer..."

May 26, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Media misses the boat when it comes to quizzing Bush on foreign dictators.

"...Everybody in the media went into a tizzy this weekend because Gov. George..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Although he's catching heat in the national media, here in Texas, Bush has been given kid-glove treatment by the media.

"...relationship. But now things are different. He's not the media's darling any more. Now that the stakes are raised..."

May 12, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

"Media Clips" weighs in on Web site parody of George Bush, Statesman reporter Ben Wear moved off of the city hall beat, and Travis County District Judge Jeanne Meurer declines to issue ruling in KOOP case.

"...been hailed repeatedly as the most democratic form of media ever devised. As long as a person has access..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

KJFK-FM fires conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Daryl Janes goes to work for Comproller Carole Keeton Rylander, George W. Bush is still running for president

"...name for himself a couple of years ago (see "Media Clips," Aug. 7, 1998) with his programs on access..."

Dec. 10, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The Statesman doesn't let facts get in the way of telling the truth about the Tim Jones tapes.

"...This week in "Media Clips," we examine the Statesman's Tim Jones series bit..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

KUT's new general manager describes his vision for the future of the public radio station.

"...who left last year in a cloud of controversy. "Media Clips" sat down with Vanderwilt in his office at..."

July 28, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Two Fox reporters, fired by a Tampa station for their report on the continued use of the controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, are coming to Austin to tell their tale.

"...And even though it may attract viewers, the commercial media's buck ultimately stops with advertisers, who may take offense..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The Daily Texan student newspaper celebrates 100 years in publication as two former editors publish a book on the Texan's history.

"...comes only a week after the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Media Watch (RMMW), an activist group which has harshly criticized..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Corporate media giants cause journalism to become less competitive; Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers speak at The Daily Texan's 100th birthday event; Grassroots Media Conference held in Austin

"...mega-merger of CBS and Viacom was announced, the news media dutifully gave us most of the details -- how..."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The world’s major corporations have realized that the media can be big money, and they have invested heavily.

"...Bagdikian first published his seminal study of the nation's media, The Media Monopoly, in 1983, he noted that only..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

The top 10 media events of 1999.

"...Here are 10 ways the local media made news in 1999:..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

"...Things to like about the current state of Austin media:..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

Media Clips

Ken Martin sells In Fact Daily to reporter Jo Clifton to focus on his monthly magazine, The Good Life.

"...bureaucrats are doing -- including beat reporters for other media, Chamber of Commerce types, lawyers, and those politicos and..."

June 30, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

Microradio wins FCC approval, but advocates of the low-wattage stations say the rules for winning a license will prohibit most stations and silence the microradio community's radical voice.

"...commentary on how profit-driven corporate domination of the world's media is choking off meaningful analysis and debate of society's..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Clips

"...we must call them on it." His remarks were immediately denounced as ludicrous by Rush Limbaugh, the nation's top-rated..."

May 5, 1995 News Column

Media Clips

"...who protested the amount of attention that heretofore respected media outlets lavished on this event were the ones proved..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Column

Media Clips

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones fields allegations that he's been stifling free expression on Austin Cable Access television.

July 14, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Paper Clips

It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.

"...Berlin and Joe Fab. The events depicted in Paper Clips are by turns heartwarming, horrifying, amazing, and exactly the..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meatier Media Moments

The News at Nine

"...sides; see this week's "Naked City.") Got all that? "Media Clips" sincerely hopes that KOOP's station politics in 1999..."

Jan. 8, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Skam Austin Makes Our Social Media Part of the Story

Facebook Watch show follows teens, onscreen and IRL

"...– where the characters are as busy with social media as any kid in the audience...."

July 27, 2018 Screens Feature by Mae Hamilton

Media Watch: Bow Chica Wow-Wow

The life and times of a porn-music impresario

"...of PG-rated tracks for a $2.49 download fee, including clips from Brickhouse Betty, a brand built around an animated..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

Media

"...indeed the antidote to the shrill cacophony of modern media, a breath of Fresh Air, and we're lucky folks..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Best of Austin Feature

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