It’s the Talent, Stupid
Over the past four years, radio has averaged revenue growth of less than 1 percent. During that time, radio has also seen its share of audience erode. Radio needs to invest in the thing that can help, most of all, to retain and grow audience. That, of course, is quality and engaging content. Unfortunately, the industry has been moving in the opposite direction.

Little: I won’t mention Iraq at WH correspondents’ dinner
Impersonator Rich Little (left) says White House Correspondents Association dinner organizers made it clear to him they don’t want a repeat of last year’s controversial appearance by Stephen Colbert. “They don’t want anyone knocking the president. He’s really over the coals right now, and he’s worried about his legacy.” Little promises to play it safe. “I won’t even mention the word ‘Iraq.’”

Dick Morris reportedly planning to “Swift Boat” Sen. Clinton
In his January 20 column, nationally syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak wrote that “Former Clinton Adviser” Dick Morris is “asking for a contribution between $25 and $100 or more to finance a critical film documentary of Sen. Hillary Clinton.” According to Novak, in a mailing sent out by The Presidential Coalition, a group run by Republican activist and discredited former congressional staffer David Bossie, Morris wrote: “If you liked how the Swift Boat Veterans turned the tide against John Kerry, you understand how a top Clinton aide can turn the tables and stop a Clinton-style liberal from becoming the next president of the United States.”

Cavuto Caption: “Nation in a Deep Freeze: What Global Warming?”
Fox News host Neil Cavuto displays either alarming ignorance or awesome disingenuousness when touting cold weather in the U.S. Southwest as possible “proof that all this hype over global warming could be just that—hype?” Seifter patiently explains what anyone with a national platform to report on the subject should be expected to know:

Surge is the Word
When it comes to describing President Bush’s plan for increasing U.S. troop levels in Iraq, a turn of phrase can mean a lot. A search of the media coverage in several databases shows that so far, the word “surge”—which is favored by war supporters—is showing up about twice as often as “escalate,” which conjures up bad memories of Vietnam.

Yahoo News is the 2006 online traffic winner.
Thanks in part to a major redesign, Yahoo News finished 2006 with a substantial lead in unique visitors over other major news web sites, according to newly released data. Newspaper websites also grew substantially last year, according to the data, and two British news sites are now among the 25 most popular in the U.S.

Murdoch paper has reporters always thinking about Google
Reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London are trained to write in a way that makes their articles more likely to appear among Google’s unpaid search results. “You make sure key phrases and topic words are embedded in the top paragraph and headlines,” says the paper’s digital-media chief.

SacBee staff now gets daily reports on most-viewed stories
“We are doing this to give you an idea of the types of stories that attract online readers most,” Sacramento Bee executive editor Rick Rodriguez tells his staff. “We will not allow web traffic statistics to dictate story play in the newspaper.” He notes that coverage of the fatal water-drinking contest “is drawing some of the largest numbers in Sacbee.com history.”

Owens: J-students should just assume their future is online
Journalism schools should design their curriculum and publication efforts accordingly [and] “be even more dismissive of print than mainstream pubs are right now,” says Howard Owens, Gatehouse Media’s director of digital publishing. “I think these are exciting times, a chance to be at the vanguard of creating journalism for a new era, and in a far more competitive environment than most journalists have known over the past 30 to 50 years.”

No Decision Yet On Tribune Co. Offers
The Tribune Company committee of independent directors mulling what can only be called disappointing offers for the Chicago media giant ended a highly anticipated meeting over the weekend with no decision on its future.

NY Times: No Intention of Going Private
The New York Times Co. has no intention of taking itself private, says CEO Janet Robinson. “We have benefited from being a public company.” Would the Times Co. consider selling off the struggling Boston Globe? “We are very pleased with this asset,” she says. “We truly consider it an asset.”

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