Is PBS The Liberal Media?
PBS programs earned 33 nominations in the News and Documentary Emmys Awards today. This amount far-outpaced all other services. NBC got 19, CBS was next at 16 and ABC News received 14.
Also picking up nominations were: History Channel (12), National Geographic (8), Cinemax (7), HBO and CNN (6 each), Discovery Channel (5), MTV (3) and Discovery HD Theater and Animal Planet (2 each). Discovery Times Channel, Hallmark Channel, Showtime and Univision earned 1 nomination each.
Odd ..., no FOX News nods. (For the record, Fox does not enter the competition. Guess they don't want to suffer by comparison.)
It's all very flattering and most deserved. But my fear is that the right leaning media will simply dismiss this as another example of the "liberal media" bias. Should pubcasters go on the offensive and claim bragging rights?
Also picking up nominations were: History Channel (12), National Geographic (8), Cinemax (7), HBO and CNN (6 each), Discovery Channel (5), MTV (3) and Discovery HD Theater and Animal Planet (2 each). Discovery Times Channel, Hallmark Channel, Showtime and Univision earned 1 nomination each.
Odd ..., no FOX News nods. (For the record, Fox does not enter the competition. Guess they don't want to suffer by comparison.)
It's all very flattering and most deserved. But my fear is that the right leaning media will simply dismiss this as another example of the "liberal media" bias. Should pubcasters go on the offensive and claim bragging rights?
posted by Greg P. at
23:42
1 Comments:
I'm all for touting recognition, especially when it comes from someone else. Notice that we have more nominations than all the cable services that were supposed to replace us combined.
We still have anywhere from double to 10x the audience of cable networks. The trick will be as TV "shelf space" is drastically altered in the next three years, will we still be in the same business?
Most reporting on these issues tends to focus on trendiness, rather than the reality, so expect an article about the "Emmys of podcasting" coming your way soon.
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HoosierBuddy, at 31 July, 2006 09:53
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