USC Annenberg associate dean Tom Hollihan tells the Los Angeles Times in an Oct. 27 article that conservative talk radio likely wont help California Republican Senate candidate Bill Jones win the election. "Its free," Hollihan says, citing one advantage of talk radio. "TV ads are going to reach undecided voters, and talk radio is going to reach the political base."
Hollihan in the Los Angeles Times
USC Annenberg associate dean and Norman Lear Center director Marty Kaplan says in an Oct. 26 Associated Press article that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is stepping on dangerous ground by campaigning in Ohio for President Bush. "This is a very high stakes moment in this presidential race, and if Ohio is the Florida of this year's race, there won't be a lot of applauding among California Democrats for Schwarzenegger's role in that," says Kaplan in the article run by papers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Miami Herald. "He can get away with a lot, but this is a real high stakes moment and he might not be cut the same slack." Also, he tells the Hollywood Reporter on Oct. 26 that, with a close election expected, "small problems in various places can have very big consequences." But, he predicts, "We will look back fondly at 2000 as a smooth election."
Kaplan in the Hollywood Reporter
Kaplan in the Associated Press
Journalism professor Judy Muller says on National Public Radio that both President George W. Bush and Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry have paid little attention to crime during the election. "We've heard a lot in this Presidential campaign about fighting terrorists in far away urban hellholes," Muller says. "We have not heard a lot about fighting terrorists in our own urban hellholes. In fact, we haven't really heard anything in this campaign about the gang violence that continues to terrorize entire communities here at home."
Muller on NPR
Journalism professor Murray Fromson compares the 2004 and 1960 Presidential debates during an Oct. 16 interview with National Public Radios Weekend America program. "They're not really debates in which the participants really go eyeball-to-eyeball with each other," Fromson says. "They're interested in theater, and they do give people an impression."
Fromson on NPR
Neal Gabler, senior fellow at USC Annenbergs Norman Lear Center and author of Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, writes an Oct. 24 opinion article in the Los Angeles Times about Bushs top political aide, Karl Rove. "Rove, however, is more than a political sharpie with a bulging bag of dirty tricks," Gabler writes. "His campaign shenanigans -- past and future -- go to the heart of what this election is about."
Gabler's Los Angeles Times op-ed
KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles interviewed journalism professor Bryce Nelson about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's avoidance of the serious press. To help California voters know what is happening, "It is very important for the governor to subject himself to regular press conferences," Nelson said. Citing misquotation of the governor's words when he met recently with Hollywood reporters of the foreign press, Nelson said the governor "should appear before the American press rather than the tabloid press of every other country in the world." Nelson suggested that the governor should meet with the governmental press in Sacramento every two weeks, or at the very least, every month.
Journalism professor Jonathan Kotler tells public radio's Marketplace on Oct. 11 that the equal time rules for broadcast stations do not apply to news documentaries.
Marketplace interviewed Kotler, an expert in media law, about the Sinclair Broadcasting companys plans to air a documentary critical of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on its 62 television stations across the country.
"Whether or not it's an abuse of the airwaves, which it may or may not be, it's perfectly legal," he says. He says the FCC could eventually decide the film is not a news documentary, but by that time the election would be long over.
Kotler on Marketplace
Communication professor Jonathan Taplin explains to public radios Marketplace on Oct. 8 why he thinks the Presidential debates have been a ratings-winner for the television networks this season. "What is happening to our supposedly turned-off, tuned-out political audience? I suggest that the debates have turned the Presidential race into the ultimate reality show. Like The Apprentice, both candidates are auditioning for a big job only we get to say, 'you're fired.'"
Taplin on Marketplace
